An "Impossible" Whopper?

I don’t understand the point to the new Burger King “Impossible Whopper,” a huge non-beef hamburger now being marketed by the fast-food franchise as a savory plant-based sandwich. It still takes two hands to handle a Whopper.

People just keep raving about the taste. They say it tastes like a real flame-broiled hamburger. Well then, have a real hamburger.

As an 8-year-old posting on my Facebook pointed out…if you are a vegan and you want a sandwich to taste like meat…you are not a vegan. You crave meat. Further the eight-year-old pondered just how healthy the Impossible Whopper was in comparison to the regular old Whopper, especially if it was dressed up with buns and toppings.

I wondered too.

So, I did the research. Honestly, there isn’t much difference at all. The regular whopper will put 660 calories on your waistline. ..the Impossible burger 630. There’s an almost indiscernible difference in the number of fat grams. Really, there are only two areas of nutrition that are different at all. The plant-based burger has only 10 grams of cholesterol, compared to 90 grams in the meat burger. The stunning fact comes in the amount of sodium in each sandwich. The Impossible Burger has over 1000-grams, making it the winner in salt content.

Truthfully, I’d eat both of them right now if I wanted to gut my diet...

But it is impossible for the Impossible Burger, filled with soybeans, to claim it is a healthy alternative to its rival which came from a cow.

So, in my view, its production and marketing by Burger King… is…….pointless.