I'm not sure why you wouldn't spend money in a burger king as a vegetarian. They are one of the few burger chains that offers a vegetarian burger. If you ask for a veggie burger in Wendy's they'll give you a bun with lettuce and tomato. If you ask in a McDonald's they'll just laugh at you.
Don't get me wrong, Burger king is absolutely disgusting food no matter your dietary restrictions. But at least they try.
Also their advertising campaigns make me want to smash my TV, Alexa and computer.
Even if there's no big market for fast food veggie burgers, Burger King sells a pretty decent one. Not always on the menu, but I've found them even in rural Alabama.
I really hope McDonalds adds a veggie burger to their menu soon, too. I try to avoid meat, but often end up eating it in fast food for the convenience and due to a lack of alternatives.
I lived in England for a bit and remember fast food places commonly having veggie burgers. This was both in Burger King and McDonald's. It was super convenient for that occasional quick bite.
In the US, Burger King has been supplying veggie patties for some time, but I wonder why it took American fast food places so long to expand. For instance, why is there still an absence of veggie burgers in a typical US McDonald's? Is this a business decision or something else?
People should be aware that Burger King has had (MorningStar) veggie burgers for a very long time that they just don't broadcast. This announcement is not about introducing a vegetarian patty but rather about introducing a _specific_ vegetarian patty.
McDonald's had an all-veggie burger back in the 80's in the United States, but it went away.
I don't know if it was nationwide, or regional. It came out around the same time as the McDLT, which was awesome.
(As an aside, one of the things that has always bugged me about McDonald's is its menu inconsistency from market to market. The franchisees have too much power, IMO. I have to drive a few hundred miles each year to get McRibs because the local franchise owners won't carry it. And McRibs don't freeze well.)
A burger doesn't have enough veg for a healthy diet, I'd be amazed if its better than the average western diet.
I'm thinking a generic McDonalds burger here with a wilted piece of lettuce, a slice of tomato and some gherkins. You could probably construct a healthy veg burger, I have no idea where you'd buy one. Something like subway seems like a better bet.
Same here. McDonalds has long had veggie burgers available outside the US, most notably in India, but also in many of the (Arabian|Persian) Gulf countries.
In the US, at least, before Burger King introduced their current veggie burger, they had something that wasn't far off from this.
It wasn't posted on th emenu, but you could order a "vegetarian Whopper" that cost something like $0.50 and was just a Whopper where they left off the patty.
Veggie Burgers are an option at virtually every fast food (including mcdonalds) here in europe -- or at least in France, the UK, Germany, Sweden and Spain; I don't know about any other country.
Mcsomething it had to be. The question is what is the something. McVeggie doesn't work, because veggie burgers became synonymous with the last generation of plant based burgers. McPlant does sound awkward right now but with the full backing of mcdonalds marketing / their resturant footprint it will roll of the tongue within a few months of launch.
Oh no? Burger Kind currently has the best veggie burger of any fast food chain. That char flavour sets it apart. Though maybe that will be in the new one too.
McDonald's did a lot of things wrong with their plant-based meat burger. If you want to see it done right, just take a look at Burger King. In Germany, you can now substitute animal meat for plant-based meat in every burger, and on top of that they have very tasty plant-based burgers like the long chicken and vegan chicken nuggets. In Vienna, they've opened their first 100% plant-based location.
And yes, Beyond Meat's stock is not doing well, but this doesn't mean plant-based meats in general aren't doing well.
McDonald's sells the a lot of burgers, and they buy the most cow eyeballs too. What would be good is if more people ate veggie burgers like these, or burgers from MickeyD's and the like, and then us carnivorous foodies can get the prime, hand-packed, never frozen gems cooked to bloody perfection. I mean come on, is there anything better than a duck fat french fry drowning in the blood and juices of a fresh burger. Personally, I recommend R_O__'S around 6PM and snakin' one of those.
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