Impossible Foods to Partner with Disney; Impossible Burgers to be served at the Food & Wine Festival and Smokejumpers Grill

[Sharon&Susan]

In the most MAJOR piece of Disney news of today, Impossible Foods has announced that the Impossible Burger is now the "preferred plant based burger" of the American Disney Parks and the Cruise Line.

The Food and Wine Festival will include a few menu options from Impossible Foods including:

• Petite Impossible Burger with Guac and Pepper Jack Cheese at Avocado Time Marketplace
• Impossible Cheeseburger Mac & Cheese at Nuts About Cheese Marketplace
• Impossible Meatball Submarine at Paradise Garden Grill

Taste Pilot's Grill is the only known permanent location so far at the DLR to serve Impossible Food Products.

 

[Sailor310]

I saw a show (PBS?) on plant-based meat. By the time you get past the high sodium, high fat, and weird things they have to do to get it "meat-like", I think you're better off with a regular burger.

 

[TP2000]

This is another thing where vegetarians try to replace meat with something else, but they insist on using the same name for the vastly different replacement. In this case, calling it a "burger". It's not. Call it a Veg-Disc. Call it a Plant Patty. Call it a Green Gobbler. But that's not a burger, cheese or otherwise.

 

[MisterPenguin]

 

[SSG]

Personally, I wouldn't touch one these Fraud Burgers even if you gave me Boarding Group 1 for a week, but some folks want meatless options so I can't knock Disney for providing one.

 

[Darkbeer1]

Since it is Ash Wednesday, when will they come out with Impossible Fish Sandwiches?

Have a couple of months of Friday meals to plan.

Well, now the Catholic Church says it is OK for me to eat meat... That birthday last week maybe was a good thing, besides getting more Senior discounts.

From Wikipedia

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) produced a statement in 1966 called Pastoral Statement on Penance and Abstinence,[5] which was modified slightly in 1983.[2]

The U.S. rules may be summarized as follows:[31][5]

In the United States, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has declared that "the age of fasting is from the completion of the eighteenth year to the beginning of the sixtieth." In accordance with canon 1253 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, the USCCB has also allowed[32] that some other form of penance for the traditional abstinence on all of the Fridays of the year, except for those Fridays in Lent, fulfills the obligation of penance.[32] Thus, the rules for fasting and abstinence in the United States are:

• Every person 14 years or younger are allowed to consume meat (and items made with meat) on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the Fridays of Lent. Anyone older than the age 14 must refrain from consuming meat.
• Every person between the age of 18 and 59 (beginning of 60th year) must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

According to the USCCB:

Abstinence laws consider that meat comes only from animals such as chickens, cows, sheep or pigs --- all of which live on land. Birds are also considered meat. Abstinence does not include meat juices and liquid foods made from meat. Thus, such foods as chicken broth, consomme, soups cooked or flavored with meat, meat gravies or sauces, as well as seasonings or condiments made from animal fat are technically not forbidden. However, moral theologians have traditionally taught that we should abstain from all animal-derived products (except foods such as gelatin, butter, cheese and eggs, which do not have any meat taste). Fish are a different category of animal. Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, (cold-blooded animals) and shellfish are permitted.[33]

Because of this, some Catholic parishes in the United States sponsor a fish fry during Lent.[34] In predominantly Catholic areas, restaurants may adjust their menus during Lent by adding seafood items to the menu in an attempt to appeal to Catholics.[35] However, the same USCCB website says that:

While fish, lobster and other shellfish are not considered meat and can be consumed on days of abstinence, indulging in the lavish buffet at your favorite seafood place sort of misses the point. Abstaining from meat and other indulgences during Lent is a penitential practice.

The USCCB also states that:

Those that are excused from fast and abstinence outside the age limits include the physically or mentally ill including individuals suffering from chronic illnesses such as diabetes. Also excluded are pregnant or nursing women. In all cases, common sense should prevail, and ill persons should not further jeopardize their health by fasting.

 

[MisterPenguin]

The USCCB also states that:

Those that are excused from fast and abstinence outside the age limits include the physically or mentally ill

Oh... so that's why you can eat meat.

 

[Darkbeer1]

Oh... so that's why you can eat meat.

Ok, I qualify for multiple reasons, age, high-protein diet for medical reasons. (But I will still avoid meat today and Fridays during Lent. Premier Protein Drinks come in Caramel, and other flavors....

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Disney's non-flesh/cheese/unhatched chicklet options have always been rather pathetic. It's one of the reasons I typically do not eat in the theme parks.