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Fast-food chain Burger King is finally bringing the meatless Impossible Whopper to its Canadian locations, starting this week at participating locations in Ontario with a countrywide rollout planned for April 12. The burger is made with a plant-based Impossible Burger and served with tomatoes, onions, lettuce, non-vegan mayonnaise (which can be omitted), ketchup, and pickles on a toasted sesame seed bun. As is the case with Impossible Whoppers offered at other locations, Burger King does not claim that the burger is entirely plant-based as it shares cooking surfaces with animal products. With the new menu option, Burger King became the first fast-food chain in Canada to serve the Impossible Burger patty. 

I've Been Vegetarian For 4 Years, and I Don't Miss Meat at All
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"What's the first thing you want to eat when you get back home?" my Thimphu hosts asked. I'd spent the past few weeks nannying my cousin's kids in a remote region of eastern Bhutan, and food hadn't been particularly plentiful there. I was hungry often and even ended up losing weight unintentionally, so as grateful as I was for the whole experience, I was thrilled to be slowly making my way back to the US and its abundant supermarkets, all-you-can-eat buffets, and wide variety of restaurants.
"A cheeseburger," I replied. I hadn't eaten meat for the duration of my weeks-long stay in Bhutan, and while I'd harbored an aversion to meat for as long as I could remember, I did have a penchant for cheeseburgers. In fact, I'd missed burgers so much while I was in Bhutan that I only made it as far as the Bangkok international airport before ordering one — that I didn't finish. I ate every last fry and drained my drink, but from the taste to the texture, the burger was utterly disappointing.

Times Burger King Lied To Your Face
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By Joel Burrows/Dec. 1, 2020 11:57 am EDT
The human story is a tale that's littered with bluffs, fibs, and deceit. For instance,
History Today recounted that a 15th-century dude named Perkin Warbeck actually married into the Scottish royal family by pretending to be Richard of York, an English prince. And in 2010, Liam Hemsworth told
CTV News that he'd falsely claimed that he could play volleyball as a means to star in
The Last Song. Furthermore,
TED declared that we all receive between ten and 200 pieces of incorrect information per day. Yup, the history of planet Earth has starred many a different sham.

Here's What's Inside an Impossible Whopper From Burger King
Including calories, protein, and ... soy leghemoglobin?
Sep 30, 2020
Even though Burger King announced that it would be rolling out the Impossible Whopper in its stores as a "limited offer" nationwide in August 2019, the burger has staying power.
Not only is the Impossible Whopper still available at BK, the chain added the Impossible Croissan'wich to their breakfast menu.
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You could call these "plant-based" additions to fast-food menus, except that there's actually no real definition of what that term actually means.
And there has yet to emerge any sound scientific research on whether switching from a diet of meat-based burgers to a one of plant-based burgers (or croissan'wiches, for that matter) can actually make a difference in your health.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers are preparing their appeal of a loss in their lawsuit against Burger King that complains Impossible Whoppers are cooked on the same grills as regular Whoppers.
Attorneys at Dudley Sellers in Tallahassee, Fla., and McGuire Law in Chicago noted in court papers that they are appealing Judge Raag Singhal’s decision to toss their case. They asked Singhal to enter judgment against them so that they can file their appeal, and he obliged.
He ruled against them on July 20, dismissing all 10 of the claims in plaintiff Phillip Williams’ lawsuit.
He threw out the first nine without prejudice, meaning Williams can re-file and try again, but the claim for unjust enrichment was tossed with prejudice.

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One day, we’ll tell our grandkids about the Great Burger Wars. Scientists dueling social conservatives, foodies brawling with tech entrepreneurs, vegans sniping at vegans—burgers are a window on the charged politics of climate change. And low-methane cows, Impossible Whoppers, and cellular agriculture have put fast food on the front lines. Most recently, a Burger King ad for a lower-emission beef burger featured a tween (the Walmart yodel kid) styled like Gene Autry by way of the Vienna boys’ choir two-stepping his way past farting cows. Of course it went viral. Burger King gobbled up the free press but also stern rebukes from scientists

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Burger King Beats Vegan's 'Impossible Whopper' Suit
Law360 (July 21, 2020, 11:21 PM EDT) -- Burger King has escaped a proposed class action claiming the fast-food chain misled vegan patrons into thinking its Impossible Whoppers are meat-free, with a Florida federal judge ruling Burger King "promised a non-meat patty and delivered."
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal issued an order Monday tossing lead plaintiff Phillip Williams' claim that Miami-headquartered Burger King Corp. had breached its contract with him by cooking the plant-based patty of his Impossible Whopper on the same grill as traditional patties.
"Plaintiffs' argument ... loses momentum when they claim there was a presumption the 'Impossible' patties would be cooked on a different grill than...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A federal judge has eviscerated a class action lawsuit against Burger King that complained its Impossible Whoppers were cooked on the same grills as regular Whoppers.
On July 20, Judge Raag Singhal in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., dismissed all 10 of the claims in Phillip Williams’ lawsuit. He threw out the first nine without prejudice, meaning Williams can re-file and try again, but the claim for unjust enrichment was tossed with prejudice.
“Plaintiffs argue Burger King’s advertisement promised more than a non-meat patty,” the decision says. “Further, Plaintiffs argue it is too early to make such a determination at this stage of the proceedings.

On Tuesday, Burger King announced that it was treating some of its cows to a new menu with a Thai twist, adding lemongrass to their feed.
It sounds like a whopper, but it’s true. The fast-food giant is in the middle of a long-term scientific experiment — how much can it reduce the amount of methane cows burp into the atmosphere by adding lemongrass to their feed?
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Burger King’s restaurants will be offering the fruits of its initial labor, new “reduced methane emissions beef,” to customers in Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, and Portland, for a limited time this month. The news exploded onto the internet on Tuesday with a splashy music video starring the Walmart yodeling kid and directed by Michel Gondry.

How cooking with Impossible's Burger meat stands up to the real thing
Kate Krader, Bloomberg
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The author will make the Impossible jalapeño burger again. And again.Bloomberg photo by Kate Krader.
The plant-based meat from Impossible Foods Inc. used to be impossible for home cooks to get their hands on. The product was marketed to chefs such as David Chang and available at restaurants and fast-food spots like Burger King. Consumers could buy their faux burgers-if they could find them-but they couldn't easily cook them themselves.
The pandemic changed that. With more people cooking at home and restaurant accounts gutted, in mid-April Impossible rolled out its product to almost 800 more U.S. supermarkets including Albertsons, Safeway, and Wegmans before signing on more than 1,700 Kroger locations in May. That's up from only 150 stores in March.