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.

You guys were all propagandized, these were pretty good.

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!

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

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 they’d 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?

I generally like beyond products (they’re pretty much the only soy-free commercial vegan protein option), but that just looks…bad.

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 won’t eat them. They may as well be chicken so if you don’t eat meat they can be a bit too close.

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 wasn’t fully hardened and you could slurp the “chicken” 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.

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.

Not just fried erasers, but breaded fried erasers. You're welcome.

Why is Noam Chomsky on the logo?

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

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.)

Eww why would you bring a Kira post here to the fediverse. Thought we were above this kind of slop here.