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"First: The vegetarians that I know don't like meat." Hi, nice to meet you! Vegan for almost a decade, the smell of a burger on the grill in the summer gives m
by 54mf 8y ago
"First: The vegetarians that I know don't like meat."
Hi, nice to meet you! Vegan for almost a decade, the smell of a burger on the grill in the summer gives me hella cravings. We exist.
"Second: When I tasted an Impossible Burger, it was awful. It tasted like a horrible veggie burger."
I'm jealous, you must not have ever eaten a truly horrible veggie burger. I had a Gardenburger in like 2005 that literally tasted like cardboard. The Impossible Burger is a miracle of science.
- inciampati 8y agoThe cravings are probably a sign that you are missing something essential that is in the burger. It tastes good because it is nutritious. I would eat a burger occasionally to stay healthy.
- tecleandor 8y agoNo, it doesn't taste (or smell) good because it's nutritious. The cravings are a psychological reflex of remembering something you liked the taste, nutritious or not. There's people who doesn't consider charring meat having a good odour, and that doesn't make it less nutritious. There's super tasty things which are horribly un-nutritional, or even poisonous. That goes both for smell and taste.
- 54mf 8y ago"The cravings are a psychological reflex of remembering something you liked the taste, nutritious or not." Nailed it. We used to have summer dinners at my grandparents when I was a kid, complete with grilled burgers. It is, in large part, emotional.
- asavadatti 8y agoThis is specious reasoning. A whiff of cigarette smoke can trigger cravings for nicotine. That doesn't mean one is missing something essential or that its nutritious. (or that one should eat a cigarette occasionally to stay healthy ;)