Just when you think we have reached the height of stupidity, Epicurious (an astonishingly stupid name to begin with) decides to cancel beef because... climate change.
Today we announced that Epicurious is cutting out beef. It won’t appear in new Epi recipes, articles, newsletters, or on social. This isn’t a vendetta against cows or people who eat them. It’s a shift about sustainability; not anti-beef but pro-planet.
Our mission hasn’t changed. As always, we hope to inspire home cooks to be better, smarter, and happier in the kitchen. We understand you’re going to have questions, and we’ve tried to anticipate some of them. We’re also here to continue the conversation.
This is not a cooking site, it is a cult.
Every organization populated by pronouns types eventually becomes indistinguishable, it's the same BLM, climate change, feminism blather that you can't tell from any other or an activist organization.
He has investments in both Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. He doesn't have much left of Beyond Meat because he pumped and dumped that shit so hard. There's probably a good story in there if someone were to dig deep. I remember he went on all these tech youtubers channels and hyped it up while the soy goblin hosts declared it was indistinguishable from meat. While this is going on some food youtubers jump in to do taste tests on their own and declare it pretty fucking bad. Hype. Hype. Hype. Big IPO. Bill Gates Foundation sells off its stock at the top and FUCKING crash.
I bought a pack of Beyond Meat Italian sausages a while ago. They were truly fucking awful. I ate three bites then chucked them all in the trash. No real flavor plus mealy texture equals shit.
There's a local vegan place that has awesome Incredible burgers. They're on our regular takeout schedule a couple of times a month.
My kid gets a "plain" version because he doesn't like the toppings. One time they messed up and gave us all plain versions -- just bread, bun, lettuce.. none of their special sauce, none of the caramelized onions, no other toppings, etc.
Turns out an Incredible burger tastes like garbage without all the toppings.
Plain beef burger with nothing on it FTW.
this but unironically
A vegan coworker took me to this vegan restaurant he used to frequent, where everything was vegan versions of recipes that normally would contain meat (eg. vegan burgers, vegan buffalo wings, vegan mayonnaise, etc...). But it was all heavily processed, and I remember telling the guy "why do you come here to pretend you're eating meat but you're eating a bunch of unhealthy processed crap? Aren't you better off finding dishes that aren't pretending to be something they're not?"
Another time I went to this bbq restaurant with another vegan coworker, and the only vegan thing on the menu was a "vegan burger" very similar to the plain impossible burger you described. I had to laugh when I saw this thing, because they clearly had no desire to cater to vegans at all; but I felt bad I dragged this guy along to this restaurant and he had to pay money for it.