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[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago
[-] MTZ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

So did I. I still don't know why.

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 79 points 5 days ago

I generally like beyond products (they’re pretty much the only soy-free commercial vegan protein option), but that just looks…bad.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago

I’d be surprised if this isn’t photoshopped

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

I agree. If it looks like that on the inside, why show the cross section?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 days ago

and why would it look like that? Making it an attractive shape is not difficult and that's the whole point of fast food joints!
If this is even remotely real i'll eat my tiny comedy fondant hat that i always wear.

[-] Wander@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Quorn are bigger and better I think.

[-] MonkRome@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I'm not vegetarian, but I like Quorn nuggets more than chicken nuggets.

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[-] gajahmada@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

It's not soy ? What is it then?

Also what's wrong with soy? I'm assuming there's some health restriction I'm not aware here.

[-] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Beyond uses chickpea protein. Soy allergies are pretty common.

[-] prole 4 points 5 days ago

Why not just eat falafel at that point

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

If it was readily available in grocery stores where I live, I would. Same for seitan.

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Like the other commenter said, it’s chickpea and mung beans and some other stuff.

I have a soy allergy and am intolerant of red meat, so Beyond burgers are the next best option for me. I can sometimes find pre-made bean patties but those are rarer. ¯\(ツ)/¯

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[-] randomblock1@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is what the actual marketing photo looks like btw

Most other pictures of the inside also look like this, I think the other photo sliced them with a sharp knife

[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Have yall actually looked at the inside of a shitty fast food chicken nugget? They dont look that much better.

[-] texture@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

chicken nuggets look much worse

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

But marketing images tend to dress the food up more, spraying some cooking oil and getting a bright light would make the image a lot better.

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 49 points 5 days ago

Huh? This would be stupidly much better; I live near a KFC and the cockroaches outside, the dead animal smell and just the grease in the surrounding area is atrocious. I wish they’d knock that shit down and sell real food rather than the mechanically separated, likely tortured animal carcasses they dump on the public. How morally bankrupt or tuned out do you have to be to eat in these places?

[-] RidderSport@feddit.org 22 points 5 days ago

Wild how different fast food chains are in different countries. Never had that smell or have seen cockroaches anywhere near a German KFC. Though I'd discourrage anyone from trying Hamburg Central Station KFC

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

Though I’d discourrage anyone from trying Hamburg Central Station ~~KFC~~

[-] RidderSport@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

Haha yeah, but that cannot be avoided at times

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

It's the way they dispose of grease, I believe. I think there are less regulations in the US than elsewhere. That or the minimum wage workers just don't give a shit.

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[-] Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 5 days ago

You guys were all propagandized, these were pretty good.

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 14 points 5 days ago

They don't even look like animal torture 😔

[-] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

This isn't about how good they actually are, but how good they look.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Considering people were just fine buying bubbly pink meat chicken nuggets from McD’s until the press decided it was their clickbait du jour I don’t think it would be a problem. I buy Impossible nuggets fairly often, they’re great. Wish they were a little cheaper.

[-] cloudskater@piefed.blahaj.zone 30 points 5 days ago

Vegan here. I've had soy chicken nuggets and they're actually really good. Soy is closest to chicken from the get-go so its the easiest thing for it to replicate, in my opinion.

So I have no idea what happened here, this looks foul. Wtf

[-] excral@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago

You mean this looks fowl?

... I'll see myself out

[-] cloudskater@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago

claps slowly as you exit the room

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

As a curious non-vegan who tried to cook soy meat at home: do you have any tips and tricks to make it actually resemble chicken?

From what I tried, I could not reach anything resembling meat. Yet, I'd love to give it a spin.

[-] salvaria 9 points 5 days ago

As a non-vegan who has replaced most chicken with tofu, I'd be glad to tell you some of what I've learned! Others can definitely chime in because I'm new to this as well and might have better suggestions:

  1. Always use extra firm tofu. Since tofu naturally has a sort of eggy consistency, getting a denser product leads to a more meaty mouth feel.
  2. You need a tofu press. Along with getting water out of the tofu, it helps make the tofu more dense, leading to better texture as well. I'm glad to recommend the one I use if need be :) The longer time you press it, the more dense it gets.
  3. I used an air fryer recipe to start my journey to prepare it. I've moved on to making some of my own adjustments as well:
  • in this recipe, they tell you to mix everything together into a paste and then try to fold the tofu pieces in to get them coated. I have had a better time placing the tofu pieces, oil, and soy sauce into a liquid-tight container with a lid, shaking it to coat everything in the liquid, then opening the lid and adding the drys, then closing and shaking again to coat.
  • I add more seasonings like onion powder, paprika and MSG to help it taste more meaty. I'll also add a little corn starch to help the coating be a little more crispy.
  1. I use the above pieces as a 1:1 replacement for any recipes calling for chicken pieces, like pastas. I really think tofu works best in smaller pieces like this, as the mouth feel seems about the same as small chicken pieces. I do not recommend trying to use tofu the same as an entire chicken breast since the texture and taste differences will be very noticable.
  2. This tofu fajitas recipe is what I used to help transition my SO and I over to eating more tofu.

Please let me know if I can provide more info!

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[-] cloudskater@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago

I'll admit I don't know how to best make it resemble anything ^^ When I went vegan I came to realize that most of the flavour of meat is in the seasoning, but I never cared if the tofu or whatever actually resembled the meat it was seasoned like.

Now you may ask how to season it properly, and I'd love to tell you, but I'm such a new cook that I can't. Names of spices elude me, which is part of the reason I need strict recipes to remember how to do shit. I enjoy cooking, I just can't remember any of it lmao

Tldr: I'd love to help you, but you happened to ask the most useless person for that advice hahaha I'm sorry

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[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 days ago

Loved it when Panda Express had their Beyond Original Orange Chicken. Hadn't had that food for years before they brought in a vegan protein option.

Need more vegan protein options everywhere!

[-] gnarly@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

I was frustrated when they were discontinued because they were actually quite good. There's not many other options for me beyond mac n cheese and green beans so I rarely go back now.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What did you expect? It says "beyond fried" right there, as in "so far past fried that it's condensed into rubber". (I'm sorry, Beyond; I love you, and you're perfect.)

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago

IMO the best vegan substitute for chicken nuggets is breaded and fried lion's mane mushrooms. They are absolutely perfect in taste and texture for this purpose, and the best part is that they can be grown very easily and cheaply.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 5 days ago

Not just fried erasers, but breaded fried erasers. You're welcome.

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Well yeah. The breading soaks up grease which is needed to help it slide down. Otherwise the eraser would get stuck.

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[-] acantharea@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I remember as a kid my mom used to buy this one brand of cheap chicken nuggets that was essentially a slurry of birds that was breaded. Being the fatass I was growing up, I found out through impatience that undermicrowaving it by a minute meant the filling wasn’t fully hardened and you could slurp the “chicken” out of the nugget like that big brain bug from starship troopers lol

Anyway - all this to say is that the photo of the filling in these reminds me of those.

[-] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Our city had taste tested them for a while. Not very good

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Meat alternatives are getting good, but for fuck's sake, stop frying them in the same oil as fish/chicken or grilling them where the burgers cooked. They have to figure that dilemma out if they ever want vegetarians and vegans to buy this shit. I'll eat it because I'm into eating whatever. But my wife (lifelong vegetarian and vegan for a few of her years) who loves Beyond products has yet to try a single fast food version because it's always the same situation. Prepared exactly where the meat is, and often comes out tasting like fish.

[-] quotequack@lemmy.quotequack.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

kfc back to schoo|

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Why is Noam Chomsky on the logo?

[-] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago

Honestly fried erasers sounds better than their normal fare.

The breading they used is all wrong for tofu. Just deep fry it as is,or cover it in corn starch and spices

[-] MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

Its not tofu

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They taste like that too. Never go to KFC as a vegetarian. Maybe it's not the same as pictured, but vegetarian nuggets at KFC are horrendous

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