Canada

I don’t see the appeal. If I want vegan fried snack food / street food I’m going for falafel, pakora, tempura, or even beer-battered onion rings. Fried chickpeas, fried plantain chips, potato chips, fried tofu skins, vegan fried spring rolls, blooming onions, fried wonton nachos topped with vegan pulled pork (made with jackfruit), vegan empanadas, vegan pizza rolls, …

The list goes on and on and on. There is so much better stuff to eat than highly processed nuggets. Even if you aren’t vegan, there are much better things to eat than chicken nuggets.

Don't even need to taste as good, I'll gobble up most vegan nuggets alternatives regardless.

For things like frozen nuggets? It's already just a breaded and deep fried protein paste at that point. Easy bar to clear and stay vegan.

the sheer amount of carnist misinformation in this thread is something else...

The secret is salt.

I already like how they will cost the same as meat, even though they are much cheaper to produce. /s

Sure, if your definition of "meat" is frozen chicken nuggets or those sawdust & gristle pre-made burgers. I've tried all these meat alternatives and they're nothing like actual meat, both in taste and texture, and they come with the added bonus of being ultra processed.

Let's see the cloned meat. I'm really curious to see if that's any good.

“Almost”

Lol, Impossible burgers and nuggets taste better than the real thing to me. The burgers’ mouth feel isn’t as good as the real thing, but the taste is better. And the nuggets both taste and feel better than the real thing.

Given how tasteless real chicken from the broiler varieties taste, I'm not surprised that something with a similar texture and the same spices tastes similarly. I had the misfortune to grow up around and eat colorful chicken and my brain still can't get over the taste of factory farmed poultry.

I wish vegan products did not try to recreate a meat product but instead just made naramd new products.

Making vegan chicken wings, forces you to compare them to real chicken wings.

If they instead were branded as something entirely unrelated to meat, they would have a decent chance at often being great products as they are!