IIRC, beyond meat has some politically motivated investors and they are in financial trouble. Their operation was described as being run like a tech startup rather than a food manufacturer.
Imagine this but the cheese patty has the panko crumbs like the hash brown.
There's a McDonald's not far from me with the modern design that actually has a playplace. There's a metaphor in there somewhere
The stuff looks so utterly repulsive I wondered why anyone would agree to use this crap in their restaurant. I guess it's yet another woke world thing. Even pure soy like they've made for "ground beef" substitute for literally decades is better than that shit.
Vegans and vegetarians are obsessed with meat replacements so they will take what they can get. This doesn't contain soy or nuts so this is a big deal to them. A lot of vegans and vegetarians consume a ton of processed food. Remember, coke and potato chips are vegan.
To quote Wikipedia:
In 2019 they went public, and before that they constantly raised venture capital. Going public is often a sign that you can't scam investors anymore so you do an IPO to dump stock and get another short-term infusion of cash. You see it happen with a lot of tech companies. I think this line might be the most damning:
Up here in Leafistan, it's almost $3.50 after tax for a single McDouble. But there's never a better time to McFucking KillYourself(tm).
Unless they were working on putting their "food" in restaurants before the frozen patties were in stores, I doubt this unless they mean the current push. They had frozen patties in grocery stores for at least two years before I ever saw articles about restaurant releases. FWIW, a friend of mine liked the frozen ones better. The major reason people bought the frozen ones was that they were soy and nut(and "mycoprotein") free since they were just spun canola and pea powder.
Maybe I'm old and out of touch, but did they change them around a decade or so? When I was young, I remember McDonald's nuggets having a more crumbly texture more like Wendy's nuggets, but now they're more flaky and I don't like them as much.
Have they ever heard of word of mouth? Because word of mouth is that shit is repulsive, viler than anything it's trying to replace in the market. Here is the plant-based substitute burger: just a fucking portobello mushroom cap with soy sauce and cheese on it. Ta-da. No need for repulsive chemicals that are (as horrible as the word is) literal goyslop.
