Business 200 SAFEWAY STORES JUST ADDED AFFORDABLE VEGAN CHICKEN NUGGETS THAT TASTE JUST LIKE THE REAL THING - Nugs for all

Link

200 SAFEWAY STORES JUST ADDED AFFORDABLE VEGAN CHICKEN NUGGETS THAT TASTE JUST LIKE THE REAL THING​

Rebellyous Foods’ vegan chicken nuggets, patties, and tenders are now available throughout the Pacific Northwest.​

by TANYA FLINK

JUNE 14, 2021


Food company Rebellyous Foods just announced an expansion of its vegan chicken products that includes 200 Safeway stores in the Pacific Northwest. The plant-based Seattle startup launched its one-pound packs of Rebellyous Plant-Based Nuggets in the retail market last year. The price has remained consistent, though the product options and retail locations have significantly expanded.

A Focus on affordability​

Prior to launching its inaugural vegan nugget, Rebellyous raised over $1 million thanks to key investors such as Saudi Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed. In April 2020, it secured another $6 million to develop and produce two new products—Rebellyous chicken tenders and patties. Launched by a former Boeing engineer and Good Food Institute alumna Christie Legally, the company is determined to create not only great-tasting meat alternatives, but meat alternatives that are affordable and accessible. All products retail for $5.99 per package—with the exception of Alaska where the price jumps to $6.49. Legally’s goal is to further expand Rebellyous’ products to supermarkets nationwide.

Chicken is having a moment​

Potentially spurred on by the rise of the hot chicken and chicken sandwich trends, plant-based chicken products are hitting the shelves like never before. Companies such as NUGGS, Sweet Earth, Incogmeato, and even Target’s Good & Gather brand have launched new vegan chicken products in the forms of nuggets, tenders, and strips. Chicken-specific vegan restaurants have also hit their stride, popping up in California (Wolfie’s), Texas (Project Pollo), and Oklahoma (The Beet Box), just to name a few. While vegan burgers aren’t going anywhere, vegan chicken is rapidly appealing to consumer appetites both at the store and when dining out.

 

[John McAfee]

Soy with a side of man boobs. Dinner is served, neet bugmen.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

"Look, we know you like the real thing, but that's dangerous and bigoted now, so take this cheap ass inferior alternative that doesn't even look like the real thing, but if we pretend it does, we all will be better people!"

Vegan or trans activist?

 

[Meat Target]

Give me authentic chicken tendies, or give me death!

 

[Toolbox]

Lol sure it's "the same". We can't even make stem cell meat have the right texture yet. I doubt your 'meat' made of soybeans and rice that tastes vaguely like chicken and falls apart when you stare at it gives you the same experience as eating a chicken nugget.

 

[SiccDicc]

I mean, chicken tastes like everything so I'm not surprised.

 

[Death Grip]

Like a chicken thing that has been used to wipe someone's ass no doubt...

 

[usernames can change now!]

Remember when there was a run on everything in the stores and pictures kept coming out of vegan options being left behind?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

plant-based chicken products

Mmmm...No they are plant-based breaded imitation crap.

They are not chicken.
They are not beef.
They are not pork.
They are breaded plants at what is probably an insane markup for the actual ingredients.

Focus on affordability
Vegetables are already affordable.

The salt content was not as bad as I expected but omg look at these ghouls. If they are eating their own product clearly no one else should.

It looks like they are trying to push these into food service for k-12. Just what we need children raised on a diet of processed soy.

 

[tehpope]

Chicken is more enviormently friendly than Cows. They take up less space and don't fart methane. Don't fuck with the tendies.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Soy with a side of man boobs. Dinner is served, neet bugmen.

Would you like a side of deep fried crickets with your plant based nuggets?

 

[Kermit Jizz]

If I want veggies I'll eat veggies. When I buy nuggies, I want fucking nuggies.

Aside from the soy/shit taste, the biggest issue here is the outrageous price. Six dollars for a half pound of frozen nuggies is absurd, name brands like Tyson will sell you 2 lbs for just under that price. If you go with off brands you can go even cheaper. Why the hell would I buy something that fails to be a nuggie, fails to be vegetable, and fails to be cheap frozen food? It literally does nothing right.

 

[GarthVader]

Is it made out of soy enriched cicada?

edit-for some reason blew past the big VEGAN in the title. I blame too many bug articles lately.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Is it made out of soy enriched cicada?

Cicadas aren’t vegan, but those nugs are. They’re most likely made of enriched soy and wheat, as those are the common things vegans will use to imitate chicken.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

Cicadas aren’t vegan, but those nugs are.

You just made me realize I will probably live to see bugs replace red meat and then bugs get replaced by synthetic soy because "eating bugs is cruelty".

I want off Mr. Bones wild ride.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I doubt it.

 

[Screw Danlon]

To be fair, a lot of frozen chicken nuggets already taste like breaded tofu. This is less an endorsement of this new product and more a condemnation of the nuggz.

 

[JambledUpWords]

You just made me realize I will probably live to see bugs replace red meat and then bugs get replaced by synthetic soy because "eating bugs is cruelty".

I want off Mr. Bones wild ride.

I doubt that will happen. Taking away people’s food sources is what starts riots at times. There were grain riots in medieval England over prices of grain getting too high if there was a low amount of crops some years. Also, the vegan diet has an 84% failure rate.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

I doubt that will happen. Taking away people’s food sources is what starts riots at times. There were grain riots in medieval England over prices of grain getting too high if there was a low amount of crops some years. Also, the vegan diet has an 84% failure rate.

I'm imagining it in more of a "We're not producing steak (except for us lol) anymore, eats the bugs or we will line you up against the wall and/or cancel your Netflix (which ever turns out to be a better deterrent)".

 

[JambledUpWords]

I'm imagining it in more of a "We're not producing steak (except for us lol) anymore, eats the bugs or we will line you up against the wall and/or cancel your Netflix (which ever turns out to be a better deterrent)".

Still unlikely. Eat the bugs is a meme perpetuated by journalists, but if it were such a better alternative, there would be no need to produce hundreds of bug eating articles. Even hardcore progressives don’t want to eat bugs. I can’t see this scenario happening.