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slash Explained. A couple years ago, a friend of mine who has this rare red meat allergy was like,

hey, Sean, you want to get lunch? And she never really asked me to go to lunch. So I was like,

of course, like, sure. And then she was like, come on, we're going to get impossible burgers.

And I of course said, Amy, what's an impossible burger? And she told me,

it's this burger that tastes just like meat, but it isn't. It's totally made from plants.

And we went and Amy was right. It was this totally novel experience. The meatless meat tasted like

meat is a very satisfying burger. And then I didn't really think about it again until last year

when I was in Chicago for a weekend and heard that the white castle of few blocks away from Marhotel

was now serving the impossible burgers. And I was with today Explained Engineer, a theme,

the dream Shapiro at like two in the morning. And I said, a theme. You want to go get the impossible

burgers at white castle? And a theme was like, sure. And we went. And that's about when I realized

that this meatless meat thing is really becoming a thing. And it is. It's white castle,

but also red robin, Carl's junior, Del Taco, then on Monday, Burger King announced plans to have

every one of its locations across the country serving impossible burgers by the end of the year.

And beyond meat, the maker of the other big meatless meat out there is expected to go public

tomorrow. It's likely valuation over one billion dollars.

Tomorrow Haspel has been on the meat beat for the Washington Post. We started with the impossible.

The impossible burger is made by a company called Impossible Foods. It comes shrink wrapped in it

looks like raw meat. There's a chain here called Dave and Busters that tends to sort of load things

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