• Dojan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    the most “feelable” effect would be that vegan and/or vegetarian options are now a must for every restaurant owner who knows what he is doing.

    As a life-long lacto-ovo vegetarian, this is one of my favourite things. There are so many options now. When I was a kid, the options were few, and you never went out to restaurants (unless they were super specific weirdo niche vegetarian/vegan restaurants) because there weren’t any options for you.

    MacDonalds had a vegetarian burger here for a while, but they discontinued that after a while because it wasn’t popular. Max, another fast food chain here, now has like three different vegan patties, and one vegetarian one, and there are dozens of burger/whatever variations. It’s amazing and makes me feel like a normal person.

    I was never a huge fan of the gluten free/vegan/whatever trends, but I’m so glad for the positive effects they had on food culture as a whole.

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      8 months ago

      It helps a lot for the burgers that there are now actually good fake meat options. Before the Impossible burger you basically had to lie to yourself to think fake meat was equivalent.

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        8 months ago

        I’ve never had a “real” burger is the thing, so personally I really don’t care. I think I even prefer the veggie patties with whole peas and stuff in them, they’re texturally more interesting. The impossible burger isn’t that nice in my opinion.

        Max has four types. There’s an impossible-burger-esque one. There’s one that’s like a battered chicken thing. There’s one that’s somewhat reminiscent of falafel, and finally a halloumi one. They’re all okay.

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          8 months ago

          I actually stopped going to Burger King when they started doing Impossible patties because they nuked their veggie patty.

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            8 months ago

            I can see that. It’s overpriced and boring. I’m really fond of the falafel-esque patty that Max has.