• DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    It tastes disgusting. If plant based meat is going to get ANY traction, food companies need to find a way to make it palatable.

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      4 months ago

      I had some Boca burgers a couple of days ago and they were great. I like the Boca meatballs and Morning Star bacon a lot too. So, you might not like it, or maybe you haven’t found the right one for you yet.

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        4 months ago

        Used to eat Boca Burgers after school around 15 years ago and those things slapped. Like a minute in the microwave, throw some Monterey jack cheese on that bad boy, tasted like a slightly dry chicken sandwich.

        Not sure if the recipie has changed since the plant based meat revolution, but I would have no problem with it replacing general consumption meat.

        I still think there should be natural livestock meat available to consumers. Unless the dish your eating is meat focused( i.e. steak, bone-in chicken, ribs) I think there are very few who really would care/notice if the meat in their food was plants, because it’s essentially a fat saturated spice delivery tool.

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        4 months ago

        Im glad you found something in this line you enjoy! I do product testing for a food manufacturer, and customers have been ubiquitous in saying they hate the plant based products. So I am speaking from my professional experience.

        That said, things are getting better in this world, and hopefully soon we will have good meat alternatives that are not just niche cases.

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          You are also getting fairly biased feedback on this case, though. Realistically, I think companies like Beyond, Impossible, and Quorn have multiple product lines that give a taste and texture experience pretty damned close to their target, but people expect meat replacements to taste bad and so they do because taste is a wildly wishy-washy concept.

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            4 months ago

            I am speaking from an in-house research perspective. Dont get me wrong, the marketing people wish you were right. And there are definitely products that are getting closer. But overall, consumer feedback is “bleh”.