“Juicy plant based burger”?
Juicy plants? LOL Sounds gross. They can keep rolling them into the trash can.
Get the story:
“McDonald’s has a proud legacy of fun, delicious and craveable food—and now, we’re extending that to a test of a juicy, plant-based burger. ”
“We’ve been working on our recipe and now we’re ready to hear feedback from our customers.”
Glovin it!
P.T.L. = Pretty Lousy Tasting
& if it’s anything like the Burger Barf Impossible Burger, it tastes like warmed over cow pie … not that I have any experience w/ eating cow pies … 😏
‘Available for a limited time’
Yep, until meat eaters try them and hat ’em and vegan assholes move onto their next stupid and profitless idea.
That plant patty looks like a turd with chunks of corn and other veggie detritus poking thru the sides of the patty.
I’ll make my own burgers. They won’t have all that processed preservative flavored taste that everyone seems to love but they are purty durn good!
Isn’t PLT a little redundant? I thought that lettuce and tomatoes were already vegetables. Maybe it’s theme song could be Call Any Vegetable by Frank Zappa.
In Canada they changed the Big Mac Recipe. Onions cooked into patty & more secret (secretion) sauce.
It tastes worse.
Did they do the same in the US?
I honestly don’t Know
If someone could let me know, Thanks.
I’m all for this new trend. Burger King has partnered with Impossible Foods (a privately held company that makes plant-based food products) to do something similar. I don’t eat fast food but I will probably try one of these new burgers just to see for myself how viable they are.
If American ingenuity can create a plant-based food that is just as delicious as regular meat, I don’t see any downside. Livestock cultivation is one of the most greenhouse gas-intensive activities out there and a plant-based diet is more healthy for you. Of course, people should still have a choice regardless of those latte-drinking, Whole Foods shopping, Prius driving food nazi hipsters that would like to outlaw meat altogether.
I don’t know how widespread they are elsewhere, in CA they are everywhere. All the fast food restaurants have the option or will soon. They are in the grocery stores too.
Like the Tesla I expect that there is a limited market but which currently has plenty of room. Maybe they can take a few percent of the market, but most, like me, will stick with meat.
They’ll made delicious garbage truck juice (for rats).
Popular bumper sticker in my neighborhood:
‘Seven days without beef makes one weak’.
Heresy in Texas.
Here is how I make my veggie burgers. When I drop off a deer or elk at the butcher and they ask me how much suit I want in my burger I say: You grab a slab of country bacon and grind it up and mix five pounds with each fifteen lbs of ground deer or elk.
Guess what? They taste just like meat – only better
Wondering about the cheese in the photo. Vegan cheese or the real stuff?
“Only real meat for me. ”
-Mayor Pete
It’s probably fake soy cheese, just the thing to make the soy boys drool. It would probably make me constipated. If I could figure out how to do it I would post Call Any Vegetable by Frank Zappa on YouTube. My daughter calls me a tech tard because I have a hard time posting videos from YouTube and I’m not on fakebook or do twitter. Some things are still better done the old fashioned and I’m just not quite with it in the new tech age.
I keep telling this story. I’ve eaten exactly two McDonald’s burgers in my life and both times I puked afterwards. (I guess I was trying to eliminate ‘coincidence’ on the second one.)
Just the photograph of that ‘thing’ is causing a queasy feeling in my stomach.
These morons bore me to tears.
Seriously.
I just don’t care.
Eat ground up Goodyear tires if you think it will save the planet. Who gives a shart?
Destroy your business via virtue signaling?
It’s a free country.
Have at it.
Btw. Veg heads craving a burger represents 100.% of the veg community but a mere 3% of the overall market.
You should really cater to a miniscule minority.
I do have experience eating cow pies and I’ll tell you right now – – they taste way better than the PLT.
I do have experience eating cow pies and I’ll tell you right now – – they taste way better than the PLT!
I’ve always worried about spit, floor dropped raw meat and ass rubbed buns in buns.
Looking forward to CDC reports, about E-Coli content in ‘Vegan’ meat burgers. My concerns were trivial.
This new product from the fields start to finish successful delivery.
Kcir- I don’t think the US version has changed. But then, I haven’t eaten at McDonalds in quite some time.
I don’t trust any fast food with plant based whatevers.
I’ve eaten a frozen food version of veggie ‘burger’. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great, but, *shrugs* they’re more expensive than beef. Which is weird, because there are more plants than there are animals on this earth.
Like I said, Mike 0bama bit McDonald’s on the ass and shook it til the recipes and value meal components changed.
If McDonald’s is going to listen to a super fat nosey bitch about diets, (she’s still super fat and nosey, btw) then they should just plain go to hell. *vegas hands*
Now if you’ll excuse me, I am preparing a batch of chocolate chip caramel cookies.
Real butter, real sugar, real salt. Oh, and just for kicks, I’m gonna grease the cookie sheet with bacon grease. lol
Remember boys & girls, Soylent Green is people.
The kids Happy Meal version comes with a Greta Thunberg doll and carbon offsets.
Is there ANY WAY I can get a job as ‘taste-tester’ for McDonalds??
I believe I can save them tens of thousands……
Puke burger.
Steven Crowder did a video revealing that the Vegan diet is bad for the environment. He left out the most important fact. Humans can not digest cellulose. We don’t have the gut microbes termites have, nor the four stomachs the ruminants possess. Unless they boil plant material and grind it into a baby food texture you might as well be eating shredded newspaper.
I’m thinking that a PLT is pretty much going to be a one-time purchase.
““McDonald’s has a proud legacy of fun, delicious and craveable food”
Yeah.
Right.
Uh huh…
Anyone remember these??
https://mcdonalds.fandom.com/wiki/Hula_Burger
Like we needed another reason not to go to McDonalds.
Thanks MJA:
Tonight my wife made Pasta with a garlic, basil & tomato sauce, I was great but…
At 9:30 I needed some Freakin PROTIEN as I work outdoors all day…
So out come 3 eggs, several pea meal bacon strips and a slice of sourdough bread. I have serious cravings for MEAT period.
Heck, I salivate when I see most wildlife (duck, deer, goose, cattle lamb and goats(Italians eat them, we don’t fuck em!)
So ultimately I don’t get spending more for an engineered product that has gone out of its way to taste like the real thing.
The only, and I repeat, the ONLY reasons these things are taking traction widely are for 2 main factors:
1. Bill Gates sunk millions into Beyond Meat’s products, and the kooks who founded Google gave nearly $900 million to Impossible Foods. The tie-in is also that
2. BOTH are part of the global elite who want control over the food supply. The plebs get to eat their fake meats at exorbitant costs and be good NPCs while the elites, well, they can do as they please, after all, they’re in the minority and their desire for grass-fed kobe beef and bone-in tomahawk ribeyes can’t be much of a problem, can it?
I’ve worked in this industry for over 20 years, and know all too well that this is going to be a cyclical event. What these people aren’t factoring is that these meat alternatives are a luxury item for many (Beyond Meat’s ground beef product costs over $11 retail for 1 lb., compared to how I can go to Costco and get 1.25 lbs. of organic ground beef for about $7 and that’s twice as much as the cheap stuff), not to mention, 95% of non-whites are NOT having any of this shit and won’t ever buy any of it, period.
The largest base is simply yuppified middle class America who, for about 80%, will try this stuff as a novelty, maybe eat it once to every 10 actual burgers they consume, and pretend they’re being “healthy and saving the planet”.
@ Rich Taylor, trust me, these don’t taste like ground beef or real meat, unless you consider the bizarre mystery meat of your high school cafeteria days to be good. Not only that, they’re made using ingredients that have to be shipped in from other continents (so much for the save the planet part), and you get ALL the fat and calories of a real burger, but hey, no cholesterol, which is about the only plus to it all. I’ve tried every one of these items that have come out since the late 90s, and not a single one can replicate the real thing.
I’m probably the only non-meat-eater/IOTW-reader… and probably the only vegetarian who doesn’t crave imitation meat.
I quit eating meat when I was 16, quite a few decades ago. Never liked it. Don’t miss it. Don’t want to eat veggie burgers sizzled on the same griddle as big macs, topped w/processed American cheese, and served on a white bun. Eeeuuuw. I just want healthy food.
This sudden appeal to ‘vegetarians’ by fast food corporations is like the electric car market… Don’t want to eat meat? Pack a lunch. Worried about oil consumption? Live in a small town instead of commuting daily from the suburbs into the city.
Oh, and on a different/related subject… the climate crisis kids who want to save the planet should shut down the air conditioning in their schools for a start.
Fix your life -and your ‘carbon imprint’- before you market to or legislate mine.
Oh good, more wilted lettuce.
@MJA – my mom, god rest her soul at 94, used LARD to cook.
For awhile there, she had us on margerine or butter substitutes for a time…
We all, a family of MANY, got off that shit eventually, but in hindsight probably helped to clog my dads arteries and contributed to killing him at 67, just about ready to retire.
“Plant-based” and “burger” do NOT belong in the same sentence.
@Rich Taylor – Don’t spread misinformation: a ‘plant-based’ diet is not healthy for anyone.
I’m SO thankful I haven’t had a burger at “that place” in over ten years. Their food has declined for 30 years as has their service. Maybe when robots are preparing everything I’ll try them again.
Why do some people consider it more ethical to eat some organisms just because they have rigid cell walls?
@D. Bag
I made sure to qualify my enthusiasm with the proviso that it would have to taste like the real thing. It is interesting that you mention ingredients that have to be shipped in (don’t we have enough vegetables right here?)and that the fat content is the same. Obviously more work has to be done but I still have faith in American ingenuity and that within say the next 5 years a plant-based burger will be a viable substitute.
@kle
“@Rich Taylor – Don’t spread misinformation: a ‘plant-based’ diet is not healthy for anyone.”
I said it was more healthy, backed by the last study I perused from the Mayo Clinic;
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/meatless-meals/art-20048193
Notice that the premise here is not strictly vegetarian but just eating less meat.
“A plant-based diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, legumes and nuts, is rich in fiber, vitamins and other nutrients. And people who don’t eat meat — vegetarians — generally eat fewer calories and less fat, weigh less, and have a lower risk of heart disease than nonvegetarians do.
Even reducing meat intake has a protective effect. Research shows that people who eat red meat are at an increased risk of death from heart disease, stroke or diabetes. Processed meats also increase the risk of death from these diseases. And what you don’t eat can also harm your health. Diets low in nuts, seeds, seafood, fruits and vegetables also increase the risk of death.”
If you have links indicating otherwise, I would be happy to read them.
I am NOT a vegetarian, but try to eat healthy.