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Tofu/soy burgers have been around for >20 years already. How is this significantly different? [Edit: way to be downvoted instantly for asking a serious critica
by twelvechairs 9y ago
Tofu/soy burgers have been around for >20 years already. How is this significantly different?
[Edit: way to be downvoted instantly for asking a serious critical question. Remember when hn prided itself on a higher level of discussion than reddit?]
- ZenoArrow 9y agoTo give you some idea of what's different: http://youtu.be/ebNeUihciDI http://youtu.be/ebNeUihciDI
- twelvechairs 9y agoThanks for the response. I would think that 'thier aim is to produce burgers that taste exactly like ground beef' or similar could fit in the article.
- acchow 9y agoIt tastes much better than tofu/soy burgers of the last 20 years.
- hn_throwaway_99 9y agoOK, I'll help explain why I downvoted you. It probably would have taken you less time to google "impossible foods burger" than to write your question. More importantly, by starting of your question the way you did, you seem to be implying, intentionally or not, some level of smugness that "don't these guys know soy burgers have been around for 20 years." Here is the Impossible Foods FAQ: https://www.impossiblefoods.com/faq/ https://www.impossiblefoods.com/faq/
- twelvechairs 9y agoI read the article. It didnt say. I even googled leghemoglobin and found that its in all soy/tofu, so that didnt seem a differentiator. I expect other people here will have the same question Honestly yes if you cant be clear what your business does where others have failed IMO at the very least your marketing team is failing
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoThe business doesn't DO anything different. Soy burgers have been around for 20 years and that has been 20 years of failure. Vegetarians might not care how the product tastes, especially if they make their culinary decisions for ethical reasons. But this is the first time meat eaters are actually saying that they might use a veggie product just because they like it. That is a big deal.
- subculture 9y agoYeah, and Impossible purposely sells these in the meat aisle because they want to complete against the meat burgers, not against veggie burgers.
- 19231838921 9y agoIndeed, in the last couple of years HN has turned into a crude propaganda instrument. One could as well read the former Pravda.
- dang 9y agoThe HN guidelines ask you not to go on about downvotes, so would you please not? However low the discussion quality is, this always makes it worse.