{"id":284,"date":"2008-10-20T22:11:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T05:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2008-10-20T22:11:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T05:11:51","slug":"veggie-burger-showdown-morningstar-vs-gardenburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/veggie-burger-showdown-morningstar-vs-gardenburger\/","title":{"rendered":"veggie burger showdown : MorningStar vs. Gardenburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/image-020.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"191\" alt=\"IMAGE_020\" src=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/image-020-thumb.jpg\" width=\"253\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s start out with this&#8230; neither is made out of meat, so if you&#8217;re looking for that juicy hamburger flavor, you should look elsewhere.&nbsp; These aren&#8217;t a substitute for the real thing, but they are wonderful in their own right.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t very detailed, but Sain&#8217;s comment reminded me that I had essentially identical burgers on back to back days, one with &#8220;MorningStar Griller&#8217;s Prime&#8221; patties, and one with Gardenburger &#8220;Flame Grilled Burgers&#8221;.&nbsp; Blue-cheese and BBQ burgers, to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with the Gardenburger:&nbsp; &#8220;flame grilled&#8221; they are not.&nbsp; Good, yes, but they have large chunks of veggies that server to remind you with every bite that you are indeed mou&#8217;ing down on plant matter.&nbsp; They&#8217;re tasty, but their texture just didn&#8217;t do it for me.&nbsp; They&#8217;re also smallish size patties compared to the MorningStar.<\/p>\n<p>MorningStar Griller&#8217;s Prime are easily the winner here, largely because of texture, but they also score points on taste.&nbsp; They are the &#8216;meatier&#8217; tasting burgers of the two types, and are a bit larger\/denser which wins points for me.&nbsp; Also, they actually grill up very nicely on the grill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, let&#8217;s start out with this&#8230; neither is made out of meat, so if you&#8217;re looking for that juicy hamburger flavor, you should look elsewhere.&nbsp; These aren&#8217;t a substitute for the real thing, but they are wonderful in their own right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[163,162,119],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-burgers","tag-foodie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}