KFC to launch plant-based fried chicken made with Beyond Meat nationwide

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KFC to launch plant-based fried chicken made with Beyond Meat nationwide

Published Tue, Jan 4 20224:43 PM EST

Amelia Lucas

Kate Rogers

    KFC restaurants nationwide will add Beyond Meat’s plant-based chicken to menus, starting Monday for a limited time.
    Fast food companies have recently tested or added plant-based items as more customers look to trim meat consumption.
    KFC and Beyond Meat say they are bullish on the product despite the launch coming amid the surge in the Covid omicron variant.

KFC restaurants nationwide will add Beyond Meat’s plant-based chicken to its menus, starting Monday for a limited time.

The launch comes after years of testing from the Yum Brands chain and Beyond Meat to create a meat substitute that mimicked the taste and texture of whole muscle chicken, like chicken breast, rather than the ground-up consistency of nuggets.

The two companies first tested plant-based chicken at an Atlanta restaurant in August 2019 — and sold out their limited supply in less than five hours. KFC then tested the new item in Nashville, Charlotte, N.C., and southern California two years ago.



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[mystery-ak]

Paging @DCPatriot 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Blasphemy!

Industrial pea slurry is no replacement for the real thing.

[Kamaji]

Yuck.

[GtHawk]

Waiting for the first lawsuit when some ignorant or badly trained employee fries the 'vegan good stuff' in the chicken fryer and contaminates the fowl substitute. From what I have read about the processing and additives used to make this plant based substitute it sounds distinctly less healthy for humans than the stuff GOD created so thank you no, I will take a pass.

[Hoodat]

Why in the hell would they do this?  Chicken is the perfect food.

[Hoodat]

[dfwgator]

You can bet they'll start substituting this stuff for real meat without telling people.

[Smokin Joe]

Waiting for the first lawsuit when some ignorant or badly trained employee fries the 'vegan good stuff' in the chicken fryer and contaminates the fowl substitute. From what I have read about the processing and additives used to make this plant based substitute it sounds distinctly less healthy for humans than the stuff GOD created so thank you no, I will take a pass.

I don't get it.

Chicken is plant (and bug) based.

I'd rather the bird does the processing to make those ingredients into food.

[mountaineer]

a meat substitute that mimicked the taste and texture of whole muscle chicken

If meat is so terrible, why do the meat substitutes always try to look and taste like ... MEAT?

[catfish1957]

dumbest idea since new coke.

[Kamaji]

If meat is so terrible, why do the meat substitutes always try to look and taste like ... MEAT?

That is a good question.

[Wingnut]

If meat is so terrible, why do the meat substitutes always try to look and taste like ... MEAT?

PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants) should be outraged

[DCPatriot]

Paging @DCPatriot 

 

[goatprairie]

I take it you're also a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers fan?

[goatprairie]

If meat is so terrible, why do the meat substitutes always try to look and taste like ... MEAT?

That's the one problem that is always ignored by all the food faddists. If it is unnatural to eat meat and natural to eat only non-meat food, why do they try to make the fake meat taste like meat?
Why don't just say the food tastes just like a carrot-spinach souffle, and people will love it?
Because eating meat IS NATURAL! Not eating meat is UNNATURAL!!!
Humans have adapted to eating meat for over two million years. It's why we have canines and incisors for ripping and tearing. It's why vegans have to take vitamin B-12 supplements to stay healthy. If eating meat was unhealthy, they wouldn't have to take vB-12 supplements.
Moral of story: eat meat to stay healthy.

[Hoodat]

I take it you're also a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers fan?

Yes.  Anything Gilbert Shelton does.

[verga]

Apparently I am in the minority. I am willing to give it a try. In the interest of full disclosure, On Friday's I have tried the BK impossible Whopper. I like it. I don't want it every day, but I also don't want a Whopper every day either. 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Plant-based industrial pea slurry meat substitute brings us one step closer to Soylent Green.

We're sliding down a slippery slope of Soylent.

[Kamaji]

Apparently I am in the minority. I am willing to give it a try. In the interest of full disclosure, On Friday's I have tried the BK impossible Whopper. I like it. I don't want it every day, but I also don't want a Whopper every day either. 

I've tried them, but to be perfectly honest, good old fashioned Indian vegetarian dishes are orders of magnitude better, and without the duplicity of trying to pretend they're something they're not.

[mountaineer]

I've tried them, but to be perfectly honest, good old fashioned Indian vegetarian dishes are orders of magnitude better, and without the duplicity of trying to pretend they're something they're not.

Yes. If I want a non-meat meal, I just eat vegetables - not vegetables trying to disguise themselves as meat.

[Cyber Liberty]

I take it you're also a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers fan?

I was, so the artist is familiar to me...wish they were still around.  I liked Fat Freddie's Cat.

[dfwgator]

Yes. If I want a non-meat meal, I just eat vegetables - not vegetables trying to disguise themselves as meat.

[Kamaji]

Yes. If I want a non-meat meal, I just eat vegetables - not vegetables trying to disguise themselves as meat.

Exactly!

[Smokin Joe]

Is this the plant?