Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food—Hippocrates

Due to some good fortune or bad Karma (you be the judge), I was presented with a bag of Impossible Burger Patties last week.

Now those of you in the carnivorous camp who eat only red or white meat and think the only veggies to eat are the onions, mushrooms, or peppers on top of your steak, probably never heard of these plant-based burgers.

To be honest, I probably would have never bought them. I would be thinking “Why Impossible? Impossible to like…impossible to enjoy…impossible to convince me I’m eating meat…impossible to convince me I’m saving the planet?”

Ok, that last one may have been uncalled for.

These plant-based burgers are “not unfortunate” in taste, as my blue-eyed darlin’ would say. They have the texture and shape of a meat-burger, but definitely not the taste or the juice dripping down your chin.

If I am hosting a plant-based-diet human in my abode, I would gladly serve up one of these burgers, they are tasty. However, I would never prepare one for a meat-eater, no matter how much you try to pretty it up with cheese and fixins’. You would never fool a meat-lover with this. I would be as nervous as a cocaine runner approaching a drug-sniffing dog in Miami’s airport.

Pre-cooked it looks like a regular burger, but maybe a little too perfect.

The Missus wanted hers disguised with cheese, a lame attempt at covertness.

Pretty it up all you want, still a soy burger. Good flavor, none the less.

Incidentally, I wander just how much less carbon is used up in producing this product. Based on the ingredient list, it looks like a lot of factory work here.

But then ol’ gassy Bessie can stop looking over her shoulder in the field.