Saw that, but as usual, you beat me to it.
I recently had the Beyond Meat bratwurst in a restaurant and thought it was delicious. The chef is my friend's husband. She told me today that though he is a diehard meat eater, the vegan bratwurst is currently his favorite item on the menu.
Paradoxically, after all this time as a vegetarian, it sort of made me crave meat for the only time I can recall. Tickled something buried deep in the memory recesses I guess.
That said, someone recently gave me some vegan chili. It had some fake sausage in it and I thought it was disgusting. I didn't say anything, because I didn't want to hurt her feelings. And then she called me to apologize when she realized that her other friend had put real sausage in it.
I try not to be a fundamentalist about anything, so I was mostly just amused and honestly surprised *that* that was what meat eaters crave (mostly it was the texture I thought was awful). To be honest, I thought the Beyond sausage was much, much better. But obviously, after 35 years without eating meat, I probably have very different tastes than a regular meat eater.
I've had a few Beyond Burgers at restaurants and they were all dry and not too satisfying, but I bought some and cooked it at home and it was juicy and sort of reminded me of what meat looks like and sounds like when you're frying it (but again, it's so long since I've had a burger, I'm not qualified to compare taste). But unlike the restaurant ones, which were either overcooked or sitting under a warming light way too long, the fresh cooked one was damn good.
