Here are two companies with new meatless ideas.

Vegan burger stand opening at Coors Field this baseball season
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/03/...rs-coors-field/

For the first time in 140 years, Oscar Mayer to make meatless hot dogs
https://www.denver7.com/for-the-fir...atless-hot-dogs

Yuk yuk yuk!!

Yuk 😝

Garbage food.

It can take years to develop a new product line, so no doubt they had put tons of R&D money into it over the last couple of years.

The debuts of those meatless concoctions have been set up to unveil in the next few weeks.

There's no doubt that production on those products commenced weeks (or even months) ago, so they have stock that they really need to try to sell.

This stuff about the meatless market is just wishful thinking though:


And they base that projection on the fact that the potential meatless market didn't even double from almost nothing to a little more than nothing over a period of... 7 years!



Never mind that data was from 2 years ago, and since then the fake meat market has dropped off - they have money invested in it, and by Jove they're going to sell as much of that fake meat as they possibly can... before they suddenly announce that they're discontinuing their fake meat dept.

Most MLB parks try to cater to just about everyone these days, and I don't blame them. They want your money, so they'll sell you what sounds appealing. There are gluten-free stands, kosher hot dog stands, etc. Coors Field food services are run by Aramark. I used to work for them. That was their game plan on our university campus, too - try to have something for everyone. No doubt you will be paying a HUGE premium for your pea protein hockey puck on a bun.

(Incidentally, I have the recipe for their burger sauce mentioned in the article if anyone wants it - it's ELITE. 😜 )

I don't blame big companies like Oscar Mayer (Heinz/Kraft) for trying to take their piece of the pie, too. Like Calianna said, it takes a big investment of time and money to develop the product and the biggest companies are the ones with the money. I'm sure the Oscar Mayer weenies will be better than Yves. Those are trash.

I DO hope the products are expensive enough to deter people.

"Pea protein hockey puck on a bun"



Good way to describe it!

But then everything at these places is excessively overpriced.

It's not just sports arenas - it's just like how movie theater concessions are outrageously priced. The owner/managers know what the customer wants to eat while there, and provides it at an ultra-premium price.

I see this whole craze as one where they fell for their own marketing.

Youtubers I follow are pushing back against Body Positivity and Diet Culture influencers who are being paid to tell people "food is food" and "don't deprive yourself, that's a restrictive eating disorder" and "start the day with a spinach smoothie and eat what you want!" and other nonsense.

All to normalize the overweight, which comes from Frankenfoods, which is their own creation.

However, a severe snag has developed, as these Influencers are passing away at young ages, from obesity complications. So the public has turned to drugs because they are honestly confused about what to do and the long decades of bad advice that DID lead to this.

How can anyone blame the food pyramid? We've got people now who have great difficulty not eating that way. Between bad digestion, too much fiber, poor gut health, and the metabolic effect of highly processed carbs, these people who grew up thinking this Food Plan of Marketing was "normal." These are the generations who believe in low fat, high fiber, grains are good, and meat is dangerous.

I don't know if we can make much progress until there's as much invested in actual health as there is in the money that can be made from ruining it.