:10000-com: agree. Lentil burgers are also great, and i prefer jackfruit burgers over meat surrogate patties as well. I’ve been veggie for decades, i love eating plants, i want to have chunks of legumes and vegetables and grains in there. Some of this stuff comes so close to actual meat that it becomes kinda disgusting for me, i used to be an “i just don’t like meat” vegetarian before i went vegan. So if something’s too meat-like, i get kinda queasy.

Now i don’t think it’s a bad idea to have an alternative for people who like meat. there’s also some fake meat stuff that i really enjoy once in a while, like the veggie shrimps at that one vegan restaurant or the vegan lox that Aldi sells now in Germany. It’s always good to have more vegan options, and it’s good when going vegan doesn’t require people to give up on too much food they like. But it’s kinda sad when the “plant-based meat surrogate” stuff does not complement the bean burgers and the jackfruit and the tofu, but when only one of them gets offered for economic reasons - that always ends up being the fake meat version, because the market share of flexitarians, carnies doing a veggie day once a week and vegans who really want their meat replacement is just bigger than the market share of people with a strongly herbivoral appetite like me.