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Admittedly, I know next to nothing about those things, though I see the many advertisements for them. The skeptic in me, though, thinks it would be more accurately labelled 'Beyond meat profits'.
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I read a great spoof of this where someone was planning to launch "Beyond Rabbit Food" or whatever they called it. It was going to be an all-meat carrot.
After looking it up, it might actually be true...
Arby's Is Making Carrots Out of Meat
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It's nothing new...I remember the soy burgers they served us in school. 
I can only imagine that now, instead of the cow releasing methane from processing plant stuff, it is the humans! 
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kmoorevs wrote: I can only imagine that now, instead of the cow releasing methane from processing plant stuff, it is the humans!
I'm personally producing plenty of methane avoiding plant stuff. I might as well not start and make things worse. That's my excuse.
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It's like they're trying to sell good food to people who don't want good food 
There's lots of tasty vegetarian stuff out there and it doesn't taste like regular burgers.
And I actually consider that a plus!
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Impossible Burgers are fine. They taste close enough to beef that, with adequate toppings, you probably wouldn't know the difference.
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Chris Losinger wrote: with adequate toppings, you probably wouldn't know the difference
In other words, drown it until you can't taste it anymore? Doesn't make for a very convincing argument.
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It's fine, it's just not the best burger you've ever had.
I get them when my company's cafeteria has them (once every other week or so). They're usually better than the beef burgers because they haven't been sitting on the grill drying out for a half hour.
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Chris Losinger wrote: It's fine, it's just not the best burger you've ever had.
Then given a choice, I don't know why I'd settle for less. I'm not gonna lie on my deathbed wishing I should've spent a lifetime eating things I didn't enjoy in a feeble attempt to...what, exactly?
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To eat different things. For the same reason you might eat a turkey, shrimp or venison burger.
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I do wonder if fast food is a young persons life style. I have not eaten fast food (burgers, fish and chips, subways etc) for decades. Being retired I now have the time an patience to cook my own.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I do wonder if fast food is a young persons life style.
My mother's got Alzheimer's, and she's become a ridiculously fussy eater--but for the worst. The only things she'll eat at any restaurant, no matter how fancy the place, are burgers, fries or pizza. My folks hadn't been at a McDonald's in 20+ years. These days during weekends (the only time they leave the house) they only alternate between that and A&W (which IMO is even worse than Mickey Dee's). Anything else will be left on the plate mostly untouched.
I can't imagine what they'll do with her once we have no choice but to bring her to a nursing home.
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Well I BK burgers tend to haunt me for the rest of the afternoon, but when I see these veggie burgers advertised, the first thing I want to know - what crap are they putting in the mix to make them taste like burgers. Am I going to eat magic flat stuff to save the planet?
Not a chance.
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charlieg wrote: what crap are they putting in the mix to make them taste like burgers
Leftover vegemite and Soylent Green that the pigs won't eat.
Will Rogers never met me.
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exactly
Charlie Gilley
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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've tried 3 things...
* Burger patty - it smell and taste like chicken sausage... I hate that so I will skip it next time
* Kebab - it was good, but nothing special... However as vegetarian I will probably buy it more to make my food intake more diverse
* 'Meat'balls - far the best - I already made it several times, as my carnivore wife and kids like it very much too...
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I do not understand the concept. Either you eat meat, or you don't, but eating things without meat that have to look and taste like meat, what's the point ??
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Rage wrote: what's the point ??
Because the taste and texture is pleasing but some people don't want to actually eat animals. Seems obvious to me.
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When you do not want to eat animals, then eat something else. But do not try to rebuild artificially something you do not want to eat.
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Rage wrote: But do not try to rebuild artificially something you do not want to eat.
Why?
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So I do not want to eat chocolate cake, but like the taste. And I like apples. Should I mix apples with other stuff, that needs to be done in a factory, needs transportation, and is anything but natural, but tastes like chocolate cake, or should I simply eat apples ?
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Eat whatever you want. Even if it seems nonsensical to someone else. If there's a market for it, go for it and make some money.
Rage wrote: eat apples ?
Apples that taste like chocolate cake? Oh heck ya! Sign me up. All the great flavor of chocolate cake without the negative side effects? Yep!
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I tried an Impossible Whopper a month ago and was underwhelmed. It tasted beefy more or less; but in a subtlety not quite right way like a low quality patty with cheaper additives/filler. Texture was a bigger fail, it was way too smooth and homogeneous.
Big Mac < Impossible Whopper < Other Fast Food Chain Burgers < Good Sit Down Restaurant/Home Cooked Burgers
or on a separate axis
Bad Garden Burgers < Impossible Whopper < Good Veggie Burgers
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Sometimes you find yourself writing a stupidly long line of code, in my case:
OutputImage(file, allFaces.Where(f => f.Proportion > double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LowerBound"].ToString()) && f.Proportion < double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UpperBound"].ToString())).ToList().OrderBy(f => f.Proportion).ThenByDescending(f => f.Rectangle.Height).FirstOrDefault());
That will auto-wrap on here but you get the idea.
Well, obviously I can shorten that line (but lengthen the code slightly) by splitting out the config setting retrievals:
double lowerBound = double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LowerBound"].ToString());
double upperBound = double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UpperBound"].ToString());
reducing the "offending" line to:
OutputImage(file, allFaces.Where(f => f.Proportion > lowerBound && f.Proportion < upperBound).ToList().OrderBy(f => f.Proportion).ThenByDescending(f => f.Rectangle.Height).FirstOrDefault());
But given that I'm not using those settings more than once, should I really be doing that? Two short-lived variables aren't going to make too much difference but I'm still doing it for cosmetic reasons and that can't be good ...
Either way, it's easy enough to split a method call where there are half a ton of arguments over several lines of text but what about when it's just one of the arguments that's causing the thing to scroll for miles? (Lambdas being a common cause of this).
Hardly a matter of life and death but I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of others on this.
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I'd split it as you have done to improve readability and not worry about short-lived variables, the compiler optimisation will take care of that and in-line your code for you.
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