Impossible sent me a tube of its plant-based sausage to try ahead of todays news. As an aside, the big box with several frozen packs inside was maybe not the most efficient way to send it, but I dont know, maybe theres no great way to send frozen foodstuffs. Someone feel free to disrupt that industry at your earliest convenience.
That said, Ive got no complaints about the contents. Ive tossed the sausage (Notsage? Fauxsage?) into a couple of pasta dishes and am currently defrosting whats left for dinner tonight. As someone who hasnt eaten pork or beef for probably a decade and a half, Im probably not the best judge of how close theyve come to the actual thing, but I dunno, it tasted pretty much what I remember sausage tasting like.
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The product is Impossibles follow-up to its popular Burger, introduced earlier at a number of diners across the U.S. Its also gone on sale at around 200 coffee shops around Hong Kong. Today, the company is announcing retail availability for the product, as it arrives in a number of major supermarket chains. The list includes, Kroger, Ralphs, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertsons, Wegmans, Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Giant Martins, Giant Food, Sprouts Farmers Market and Heinens.
The product is entirely plant-based and contains no cholesterol or trans fats, with nine grams of fat, including four grams of saturated fat per a 56 gram serving. That also includes seven grams of protein and zero grams of pigs. Impossible lists the number of pigs killed for food each year in the U.S., but Ill save you that and just sayits a lot of pigs. Americans eat a lot of pigs.
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The product also uses 79% less water, 41% less land and emits significantly less greenhouse gas than pork production. I can also attest to the fact that it cooks quite well in a skillet.read more
Impossible’s plant-based sausage is coming home
