[myspy]

Aldi has a great chicken replacement and the meatballs packaged with a pack of ketchup are excellent. I would wish for them to be available in a larger version without the ketchup.

Another problem I have with all of this is the plastic packaging for everything. Getting something like that at a veggie butcher would be cool.

[whazor]

In a podcast I heard that The Vegetarian Butcher initially had experimental biological degradable packaging, but after buying hundreds of thousands they all went bad, and had to be thrown out. Now they use plastic packaging and they only try to solve one problem at a time.

[stavros]

This sounds weird to me, it was a surprise to them that biodegradable packaging biodegraded?

[wongarsu]

The general assumption is that biodegradable materials biodegrade under conditions different from regular use and storage, or over long timeframes. The timber in your house is biodegradable, but if you keep it dry it will last a century or so. Packaging that biodegrades in regular storage isn't nessesarily bad, but surprising

[stavros]

Ah, it was a storage issue? That's interesting, thank you.

[cduzz]

Didn't our ancestors just use paper for such things? Or cloth?

I guess lots of them died of dentistry before getting to oregon, but still.

[enobrev]

Killer cavities or misspelling of "dysentery"?

[dfxm12]

Knowing that the dentists of the early-mid 19th century were mostly trained as barbers, probably both.

[AstralStorm]

Waxed paper, usually. It is not nearly close to biodegradable. It requires specific yeasts yo be present in the soil or the paper will remain for a very long time. Also waxed fabrics and glass or ceramic jars.

[openplatypus]

Dysentery?

[pfdietz]

I prefer polypropylene packaging to cardboard coated in PFAs. The latter is ostensibly "compostable", as long as you're ok with compost laced with forever chemicals.

[zoklet-enjoyer]

Herbivorous Butcher in Minneapolis https://www.theherbivorousbutcher.com/

[giantg2]

"Getting something like that at a veggie butcher would be cool."

Wouldn't it just be shipped in plastic and repacked in plastic?

[myspy]

They could ship a lot of them in less plastic to a vendor where you could get them in a paper bag.

[giantg2]

How does that work if they use fake blood?