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[–] 84 points 10 months ago

Well if McDonald’s wins this one, then the meat industry should keep its mouth shut about “soy milk” and “impossible burger”.

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  • [–] 55 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Have you ever eaten one? I'd be surprised to learn it was mostly meat.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Hahaha, now that you say that, I'd also be surprised. It tastes and feels more like a meatloaf kind of product, like finely ground meat with the maximum amount of filler product before you actually start to taste sawdust. Mmmmmmmmmm

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  • [–] 51 points 10 months ago (31 children)

    Enshittification has reached all processed food. Take Totinos pizza rolls, they don't even use real cheese anymore, they use "Imitation Mozzarella Cheese". The knockoffs aren't any better, the Walmart Great Value brand pulls the same crap. Only the Aldi version (Mama Cozzi) uses actual cheese.

    Gets off soapbox

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    But that's the great thing about capitalism, it gives you so much choice. You can buy the pizza rolls with imitation cheese in the red packaging, or the blue one, or even yellow!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Yeah, that's how it works today, but not how it used to be. We keep forgetting the option to not buy crap, which is how this house operates.

    So weird hearing all the bitching about capitalism when we collectively buy garbage. Yes, we're screwed in many unavoidable ways, but our consumption is 98% controllable.

    Reminds me of my crack whore (most literally) neighbor back in the day. She was making fun of me for buying decent toilet paper when she got the single-ply shit for cheap. "Yeah, but you're using twice as much for more money." "Sucker!"

    My wife and I buy almost nothing new and shop Aldi for food. I can walk out of Aldi with almost twice the food as the most expensive grocery 1-mile down the road. Guess which store is swamped with customers and which is nearly empty. For context, this is a redneck suburb of a poor American city.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    I thought the fediverse doesn't have ads?

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Pointing out which brands don't fool the consumer is an ad? The bar seems really low nowadays.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Which brings us to today's sponsor, Real fuckin cheese.

    Gone are the days of real cheese on shitty pizzas, years of budget cuts and shortcuts lead the food industry into selling us imitation cheese that's essentially dried glue!

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    We then age our cheese the old way like real fucking cheese is supposed to, just so you can get that real fucking cheese experience.

    Real fucking cheese, when you're sick of fake ass cheese.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    So is it an ad for Totinos or Aldi?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    To be fair the McRib was shit from the beginning. I still crave one every few years.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I've never had one, but I assume it tastes like the 90's elementary school "rib" sandwich from the cafeteria. Maybe worse.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I can't compare, I never had yours. It's minced pork, a very strange BBQ sauce it's been heated in, some pickles and raw onions. The sauce is mainly acidic/sweet IIRC and the onions only provide texture. It's very strange, but somehow it scratches an itch. I haven't had one in years, but maybe I'll get one later and update the description.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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    It's available year round in Germany. For whatever reason.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Damn, I had some random off brand pizza rolls I bought a few months back. Just checked the label. Sure enough. Imitation cheese. Guess I need to start checking that before I buy them in the future.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I bought some pizza rolls a couple years ago for nostalgia. They didn't taste anything like I remembered.

    Did they change more than the cheese since the 80s and 90s?

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Foodstuff-like product ^TM^

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    meat flavored reprocessed byproduct slurry.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Stop it you two. I'm getting hungry.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Homogenised meat-flavoured protein disc

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Another lawsuit filed claiming the McFlurry contains zero flurry.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    The complaint states the McRib is made from restructured pork using various cuts, none of which are actual rib meat

    So it's still mostly or entirely pork, maybe?

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Watch this go the same way as boneless wings with bones in them

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Boneless wings is just chicken nuggets sold at a premium.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    He is referring to the Ohio Supreme court ruling that boneless wings can have wing bones in them summer 2024

    But I also want to point out that chicken nuggets are different than boneless wings (or chicken chunks as well call them in my area). Nuggets are chicken scraps that are processed and molded into shapes. Chunks/boneless wings are chunks of chicken breast and are 100% actual meat plus breading.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    I'd die of embarrassment being a part of this. Just an absolute waste of time and a cash grab.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Was it ever? Also, haven't they been sued for this before?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago