So if you’re the type that likes to pile on the meat-based toppings but you’ve given up meat for health, environmental, or moral reasons, come sit ringside while I review Beyond Italian Sausage. And while every pizza place has a whole range of vegetarian-friendly options these days, nothing quite completes a pie like a hearty serving of meat. Plant-based burgers, tacos, meatballs… all of that is fine and good, but pizza? We’ll take a slice of pizza over a burger any day of the week. The Beyond Meat Italian Sausage pizza from Pizza Hut. But this can still be a Rocky story because while things are looking down for Beyond Meat and their eye is all busted up and they’re seeing triple and the old man on the side of the ring is yelling about how he’s gonna stop the fight, they’ve just landed a Balboa-esque punch that has delivered them a fighting chance. And from what we can tell he’s not Italian either. But guess where the company’s founder is from? Okay, also not Philadephia. And guess where Beyond Meat is headquartered? Phila - okay, that’s not true, the company is located in California. Who might be reasonably be called the “King of Sting,” aka one of Apollo Creed’s many nicknames. Impossible Foods holds the big title, they’ve got the King. Look I’ve been told before, “Not everything is Rocky.” But this really is just like Rocky. With Impossible getting better reviews and McDonald’s developing its product without help from the two front-runners, it’s not crazy to call Beyond Meat the scrappy underdog with a one-in-a-million shot at the plant-based title belt. Meanwhile, McDonald’s slipped a jab this week by announcing that the company will be making its own plant-based burger rather than relying on Beyond or Impossible (which sent Beyond Meat’s stocks tumbling). But Impossible Foods has the Impossible Whopper, and that’s a pretty massive uppercut.

In terms of accessibility, Beyond Meat shows a lot of promise - solidifying itself as a menu staple at chains like A&W, Bareburger, BurgerFi, Carl’s Jr, and Del Taco. Over the past few years, a brawl has been underway in the fast-food space over which plant-based food brand would dominate the market and become America’s plant-based meat of choice.

Remember Rocky? This is exactly like that.

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