IMO the best vegan substitute for chicken nuggets is breaded and fried lion's mane mushrooms. They are absolutely perfect in taste and texture for this purpose, and the best part is that they can be grown very easily and cheaply.
Meat alternatives are getting good, but for fuck's sake, stop frying them in the same oil as fish/chicken or grilling them where the burgers cooked. They have to figure that dilemma out if they ever want vegetarians and vegans to buy this shit. I'll eat it because I'm into eating whatever. But my wife (lifelong vegetarian and vegan for a few of her years) who loves Beyond products has yet to try a single fast food version because it's always the same situation. Prepared exactly where the meat is, and often comes out tasting like fish.
This is what the actual marketing photo looks like btw

Most other pictures of the inside also look like this, I think the other photo sliced them with a sharp knife
Have yall actually looked at the inside of a shitty fast food chicken nugget? They dont look that much better.
chicken nuggets look much worse
But marketing images tend to dress the food up more, spraying some cooking oil and getting a bright light would make the image a lot better.
You guys were all propagandized, these were pretty good.
They don't even look like animal torture đ
This isn't about how good they actually are, but how good they look.
Considering people were just fine buying bubbly pink meat chicken nuggets from McDâs until the press decided it was their clickbait du jour I donât think it would be a problem. I buy Impossible nuggets fairly often, theyâre great. Wish they were a little cheaper.
I get Beyond Burgers often, and they at least have some texture on the inside. Not exactly like hamburger, but it looks appetizing. The above image is just white paste on the inside. They could certainly do better.
Vegan here. I've had soy chicken nuggets and they're actually really good. Soy is closest to chicken from the get-go so its the easiest thing for it to replicate, in my opinion.
So I have no idea what happened here, this looks foul. Wtf
You mean this looks fowl?
... I'll see myself out
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Loved it when Panda Express had their Beyond Original Orange Chicken. Hadn't had that food for years before they brought in a vegan protein option.
Need more vegan protein options everywhere!
I generally like beyond products (theyâre pretty much the only soy-free commercial vegan protein option), but that just looksâŚbad.
Iâd be surprised if this isnât photoshopped
I agree. If it looks like that on the inside, why show the cross section?
and why would it look like that? Making it an attractive shape is not difficult and that's the whole point of fast food joints!
If this is even remotely real i'll eat my tiny comedy fondant hat that i always wear.
It's not soy ? What is it then?
Also what's wrong with soy? I'm assuming there's some health restriction I'm not aware here.
Beyond uses chickpea protein. Soy allergies are pretty common.
Why not just eat falafel at that point
If it was readily available in grocery stores where I live, I would. Same for seitan.
Like the other commenter said, itâs chickpea and mung beans and some other stuff.
I have a soy allergy and am intolerant of red meat, so Beyond burgers are the next best option for me. I can sometimes find pre-made bean patties but those are rarer. ÂŻ\(ă)/ÂŻ
Huh? This would be stupidly much better; I live near a KFC and the cockroaches outside, the dead animal smell and just the grease in the surrounding area is atrocious. I wish theyâd knock that shit down and sell real food rather than the mechanically separated, likely tortured animal carcasses they dump on the public. How morally bankrupt or tuned out do you have to be to eat in these places?
Wild how different fast food chains are in different countries. Never had that smell or have seen cockroaches anywhere near a German KFC. Though I'd discourrage anyone from trying Hamburg Central Station KFC
Iâm an American but used to have roommates from all over the world and Iâll never forget how absolutely disappointed they were with McDonalds, Burger King, etc.
Though Iâm in Los Angeles so there are plenty of incredible hamburger places (far too many) if youâre seeking it out.
Though Iâd discourrage anyone from trying Hamburg Central Station ~~KFC~~
Haha yeah, but that cannot be avoided at times
It's the way they dispose of grease, I believe. I think there are less regulations in the US than elsewhere. That or the minimum wage workers just don't give a shit.
Beyond is sub par to impossible, however, get it. Impossible nuggets are so close to actual chicken nuggets in flavour and texture that my vegetarian wife wonât eat them. They may as well be chicken so if you donât eat meat they can be a bit too close.
I was frustrated when they were discontinued because they were actually quite good. There's not many other options for me beyond mac n cheese and green beans so I rarely go back now.
I remember as a kid my mom used to buy this one brand of cheap chicken nuggets that was essentially a slurry of birds that was breaded. Being the fatass I was growing up, I found out through impatience that undermicrowaving it by a minute meant the filling wasnât fully hardened and you could slurp the âchickenâ out of the nugget like that big brain bug from starship troopers lol
Anyway - all this to say is that the photo of the filling in these reminds me of those.

Not just fried erasers, but breaded fried erasers. You're welcome.
Why is Noam Chomsky on the logo?
What did you expect? It says "beyond fried" right there, as in "so far past fried that it's condensed into rubber". (I'm sorry, Beyond; I love you, and you're perfect.)
Honestly fried erasers sounds better than their normal fare.
The breading they used is all wrong for tofu. Just deep fry it as is,or cover it in corn starch and spices
Its not tofu
Eww why would you bring a Kira post here to the fediverse. Thought we were above this kind of slop here.
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