Dogun it! Chick-fil-A's Gone All Woke On Us!

They're selling fake chicken.

They can haz cowz!

Uhhhhh, I am actually curios, but is it fake like cauliflower pizza crust which is actually just the old pizza crust with some cauliflower in it which does not help us rid ourselves of processed grains. What does it look like? is it deep fried or cooked properly to have a good flavor? Does it have processed grains? Is it still served on a processed bun with sugars in it?

Please tell me it is not some sort of pretend meat abomination. I do not need to pretend I am eating meat, but an actual healthy offering of a low sugar vegetable for the road would spark my interest.

OK, from a link from the article

https://gizmodo.com/chick-fil-a-cauliflower-plant-based-meatless-sandwich-1850096270

It looks like it is a deep fried cauliflower sandwich on the normal fast food bun. For diabetics the bun and the oils are the worst part. This does not seem like a healthy alternative. Instead it seems like a vegetarian offering (Not vegan) which will be cooked in the same materials the chicken sandwiches are cooked in. Like spaghetti sauce cooked with meat, but the meat was taken out.

Interesting idea, but not taken far enough to be a healthy alternative for me.

Chick Fil A (at least at the Boise store I go to ) has a diverse employee base. Male, Female, Black, White...I really don't have any problem with them as a business. They treat their employees well (although they work their asses off, but that's true in any fast food outlet). Unlike Hobby Lobby, as far as I know, the founders have done nothing illegal. Yes, I don't like the fact that they use their fortunes to push a conservative agenda, but I'm not going to let my shopping choices be dictated by that or I'd go hungry, naked or without electronics (your mileage may vary and I'm fine with that). All that said, if Chick Fil A attempting to better serve it's customers with a veggie product is enough to send some people in Uncle Albert mode, well

I doubt it will kill them. It is the same thing as the supposed boycott of them for their CEO supporting anti-gay marriage bullshit. Who is really going to stop going because they made a vegetable sandwich? There are probably more idiots who think this is healthy and going to help them not be fat. Most people I know who eat there do it because it is supposed to be healthier to eat chicken than beef. When you toss in the bun, fats, and fries it is more like putting cauliflower in chocolate cake.

It is just stupid things to freak out about when they have the same menu items for you as before. It is just another spiteful thing from the right. Nothing changes for them, and the anti-gay thing is still there, but they are going to hate because there is a vegetarian option and they want those people to suck rocks (Which is probably a vegan thing anyway). I just find it funny that the CEO wanted to cultivate an american Christian customer base and now the american christians turn on them because vegetables.

CHUDs are stupid. Christian chicken will be fine because shakes and waffle fries are as addictive as crack (I mean Meth which is whypipo crack) to the gravy seal patriots.

Popeye's FTW.

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Does popeye's have a spicy cauliflower sandwich with low trans fats and whole grain or wheat bread?

If they do I would actually really appreciate the option to keep my sugars low.

Anyone who goes to a fast food joint looking for "healthy options" should be taken behind the counter and have their head shoved in the deep fryer for a few minutes.

Joe Conservative: "I'm for freedom and the open market and everybody being able to do and buy what they choose!"

Restaurant: "Here's a thing you can buy that doesn't have meat in it. It's one item out of 20 on our menu."

Joe Conservative: *dissolves into paroxysms of shrieking incoherent rage*

even better... the fries are seasoned with MSG and refined sugar.

I imagine that like fast food salads these will not be popular and will be sold at a loss.

The point isn’t to sell them but to have the option of selling them.

Five guys are taking lunch together and one is on a diet. The four can now point to this and say ‘they have that veggie sandwich now’ which gets him and the other four into the store. And once there the diet guy will likely get a regular sandwich anyway.

A family and one kid is trying out being a vegetarian, etc, etc…

Or, you could just take the fifth guy who's on a diet, tell him to fuck off, and then shove his head in the deep fryer for a few minutes.

The Chick Fil A market salad and cobb salads are fuckin’’ awesome! Just sayin’

I can only imagine this was the logic behind the chain Five Guys (Googles - no, it was a Dad and his four sons - Mom was involved but women don't matter, right?), but come on...

The joke:

"I'm hungry!"
"Shall we have Five Guys?"
"Sure, but what are we gonna eat?"

Is so fucking obvious oh wait it's an American chain isn't it.

Tempting and somewhat toxic.

This. I don't eat there because fuck them, but yeah, it's funny that because a restaurant acknowledges other people than your bog standard red blooded meat eating American as deserving of service, these conservatives throw a conniption. More options is better! If I go out to a restaurant with my friends, it's nice to know that there are food options for me, too. I eat some meat, but my whole diet has changed. High fiber, low carb, no fried foods, no potatoes (I weep as I type this), no saturated oils (where possible, sometimes you just can't avoid them), and so all of that cuts down on what I can eat when I'm out. Every restaurant salad I've ever had, aside from Wendy's, is utterly pathetic, and I don't eat potatoes, so no french fries. There are sweet potato fries, but last time I had those my blood sugar went to the moon because it turns out the restaurant was adding sugar to the sweet potato fry mix to make it more appealing.

It's a wonder half the country doesn't have daily heart attacks.

Shit, where was I? Oh yeah...

So I don't eat at Chick-fil-A, but I don't judge people who do, we all have comfort food we enjoy, and while I don't like the owners, I don't take it out on the employees or the customers. I hold the owners responsible for the shit they do. Anyway, Popeye's is better, but that's beside the point, and since I have no idea what I was saying, and I typed all of this out, I'll stop here.

Oh, and again, Popeye's is fucking awesome. Too bad I can't eat it anymore.

goes to show what lunatics these people are. Having an extra free market option is, somehow, a communist plot to force them to give up meat or whatever. Get make to me when any of these chains doesn't offer the option to buy ANY meat product anymore.

The level of social and political awareness in the US is frighteningly poor. We have literally reached the point where a sandwich itself becomes national discourse because of its implied political stances.

They just retired talking pieces of candy because of CHUD outrage.
Were the CHUDs outraged over child slavery in chocolate plantations?
Haha! Nope!

Exactly, it's re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and nothing more. The real need for a narrative about injustice is always just out of reach, and put within reach are these puff pieces about woke sandwiches and transgender candies. Distraction, that's all it is.

I think I get it. If one is going to get all angry about something, starting a fight about stupid things like this is a good idea. If they win and Los Pollos Hermanos or whatever gets rid of their plant sandwich, they feel good because they won. If they lose and people continue to be able to choose whether their sandwich contains chicken or a physical manifestation of sadness, it's not really a big deal.

It's really just a stupider version of things like "pineapple doesn't belong on pizza," or "hot dogs are/aren't sandwiches;" it's stupid and no one really gives a shit, but maybe there's victory to be had, and owning the turds makes me feel good.

Also, why are chicken places all like "hey, you know the stuff we do to chicken? Let's start doing it to cauliflower too!" as of late? Buffalo Wild Wings has had cauliflower wings for a while now. Cauliflower is tied with kale as the worst iteration of Brassica oleracea. It's not going to compete with chicken. All preparing cauliflower like chicken accomplishes is making it taste slightly better (which is a low bar to begin with,) and making it less healthy (which defeats the entire point of eating failure plants like cauliflower.)

The best bet for plant-based chicken analogues is probably the Impossible/Beyond stuff. The imitation chicken/sausage isn't as good as the imitation ground beef, but it's not bad, and I'd imagine they're working to improve it. If it has to be an actual plant, there are better options, like okra, or maybe zucchini.

First off, cauliflower is nothing near kale. I can think of at least thirty vegetables closer to kale. I will give cauliflower that it is bland, but kale is nowhere near bland. Cauliflower also is like mashed potatoes, after being boiled. You could boil kale for a year and the stalks and veins are still like twigs. Sorry, but anyone who says the two are similar has never actually eaten both of them. If you think they are bad it is for 2 different reasons.

Second, impossible shit is exactly that. It is impossible for anyone with senses to confuse impossible stuff for the real thing. You might like it, and it might taste good to you, but it is not beef, pork, fish, fowl, or amphibian. I have had an love most of the latter (people who eat frogs are fucking aliens from the planet tasteless asshole). There is no way I could confuse any of these substances for vegetable mash with beet juice.

I like vegetables and I am not a dog or child where I need you to trick me into eating them by pretending I am eating meat. The people who need that need to die. It is time for darwin to remove the gravy seals from our lives. If you are too much of a toddler to eat some fucking kale, broccoli, cauliflower, or any other vegetable then you need to fucking die. Our ancestors lived mainly on plant and insect matter. They were happy to find it and if they waited for the meats they would have been too weak to hunt. You are not being more manly by not eating plants, you are being a more entitled crybaby toddler who would be dead in a week if the supermarket closed down because tough guy don't cry like little babies over cauliflower. They eat it because it fills their stomachs and gives them the energy to survive.

But they got played in that too.
Cartoon M&Ms were back in a SuperBowl ad, surely a gimmick planned all along.

Sadly, you cannot shame the shameless

Yeah, they may be back, but do they have high heels, and can Tucker Carlson fuck them? NO!

I eat a bunch of random impossible burger/ beyond burger type stuff, but it's mainly when I want something quick to cook and filling.

Yeah I can make a rad vegetarian meal that's all from scratch, delicious fresh veggies and all that, but the quicker options tend towards being lighter food, or super carb heavy. There's something to be said for a big ol' lump of protein.

Like last night I made myself a couple of wraps for dinner, and chucked some grilled beyond burger, melted brie, and salads in there. Not because it's the healthiest or best meal, but because I wanted something quick and easy which also satisfied that "I want to sit on the couch and digest this for a good couple of hours" itch.

Seems the plant-based chicken burgers have affected their noggins!!! They've hired a diversity officer. The right-wingers have gone nuts.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/trump-supporters-are-big-mad-chick-fil

Lots of angry tweets from the batshit wing at the link, but here's one:

https://twitter.com/stillgray/statu...023/05/trump-supporters-are-big-mad-chick-fil

A very normal response from very normal people.

If there's anyone who can detect the taste of tranny semen in his lemonade, I'm guessing it's Joey.

He can probably recreate the iocane powder speech but with tranny semen.

Joey, Joey, Joey, you've eaten gallons of semen at restaurants in your day, both fast food and sit-down, but it was from cis hetero teenagers, and because you're an asshole.
Seriously, there's no way a guy who tweets like this isn't a demonstrable asshole in the day-to-day.

Seemed like this was done by customer request so.... What's the old saying? If you dont like it don't eat it.

I've tried a cauliflower chicken sandwich and didn't care for it. Cauliflower rice on the other hand is pretty good and tastes close to the real thing