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It's a bit of a flop in the UK too tbh. It's been pushed fairly hard, but not that much uptake.
by taylorius 4y ago
It's a bit of a flop in the UK too tbh. It's been pushed fairly hard, but not that much uptake.
- Oxidation 4y agoI've avoided it because of the push. A tech-adjacent company that's pushing a "disruption" that hard makes me very suspicious. In principle I'm all for it ethically, and it's probably no "worse" then any other ready meal/processed food à la Unilever that I sometimes eat. But I'd rather just eat tofu (which I do very much like anyway) than whatever some "founder" is pushing on me so he can get another funding round in.
- OJFord 4y agoIt's a flop for me because of the 'plant-based' marketing. I make my own burgers with jackfruit or chickpeas and things quite often, but I call them what they are, not 'plant-based', which is about as appetising to me as 'meat-based'. (What's the meat?! Surprise mix of whatever was going cheapest plus horse?).
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoThe whole thing is reminiscent of Simpsons marketing joke: "It has over 60 ingredients!"
- Nursie 4y agohttps://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/food/meat/meat-substitutes/united-kingdom https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/food/meat/meat-substitu... The size of the meat-substitute market in the UK appears to have grown steadily to about 1.5 billion quid. With the UK beef products market hitting around 4.4 billion quid, I'd say that's pretty sizeable.
- onion2k 4y agoYou must live in a very different part of the UK to me then. Every supermarket has extensive plant-based options, Greggs has been expanding their vegan range, McDonalds has the McPlant on the menu permanently now..
- AstralStorm 4y agoThe plant burger is not a fake meat patty, it is a vegetable patty. Very different and also tastier than their meat alleged burgers.