Burger King debuts BK Veggie

Associated Press ^ | 3-18-02

[antidemocommie]

They ought to be giving away this crap. Who wants to waste good money on a "substitute"?

I would try it if its free, but otherwise, Im not wasting five bucks on a dang vegie burger! haha! No way!

BEEF, its great on your plate!

[pray4liberty]

Husband is a vegetarian and he said it was pretty good. Not all vegetarians are card-carrying members of PETA. Some of us go veggie because we're just too darn fat :)

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

PETA'S STATEMENT REGARDING THE BK VEGGIE(from petas website)

BK DOES IT PETA’S WAY

Group to Promote Burger King’s New Mean, Lean, Green Veggie Burger

For Immediate Release: March 15, 2002

Contact: Andrew Butler 757-622-7382

Miami — Last year, PETA held nearly 1,000 demonstrations outside, inside, and even on top of Burger King restaurants throughout North America to protest the fast-food giant’s cruel treatment of animals killed for its products. Now, PETA has put down its protest signs and put on aprons: PETA members will hand out free Burger King Veggie Burgers next week at a Miami Beach Burger King restaurant.* Daisy, PETA’s appreciative "cow," will greet the lunchtime crowd, waving a poster that reads, "Try the BK Veggie Burger!"

Date: Monday, March 18

Time: 1-2 p.m.

Place: Burger King, 201 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach

Why is PETA helping its one-time enemy? In June 2001, following PETA’s six-month campaign, Burger King agreed to hold its suppliers accountable for upgraded standards of animal welfare. Now, Burger King has added a vegan veggie burger (already available in Europe and Canada) to all 8,000 U.S. locations.

"Launching a mean, lean, and green veggie burger puts Burger King ahead of its fast-food competition," says Andrew Butler, PETA’s Vegan Campaign coordinator. "We hope people will give the animal-friendly burger a royal welcome."

For more information on PETA’s Burger King Campaign, please visit MurderKing.com.

*PETA’s free offer is limited to one sandwich per customer.

Looks like they caved in to peta to me

[L.N. Smithee]

I actually had one of these yesterday. They should have Howard Stern or the guys from South Park promote it. Why? It's totally tasteless.

[Grampa Dave]

Even the Kali BKers will not keep this artificial turkey on their menus.

The franchise owners are a tough group, and as soon as the first blip is over and when only 1% or less of the faithful grass munchers return for more dried and fried fodder/sileage. They will drop this mutation faster than Tipper Gore was dropped by the Tn demonicRats as a possible senator!

Property rental, operating costs and insurances costs are just too expensive in Kali to mess around with this PC fiasco.

The only way it will be around is if the home office provides the sileage free and gives a pm to the franchises for keeping a dozen frozen grass paddies on hand or pr/PC relations.

[satire]

I'm betting that this is partially to prevent future lawsuits. This will be BK's "proof" that they at least offered "healthy," even if there are few takers. There will be lawsuits over fat in the future. There will be relatives of dead Corolla drivers suing the manufacturers of the SUVs that hit them, and the drivers of the same. That said, I'll give the Veggie a try. If it tastes good, why not?

[SamAdams76]

I'm not a vegetarian but I do try to keep a lot of vegetables in my diet. Maybe I'll give this veggie burger a try. I had one of these "soyburgers" at a barbeque last year and I must say it wasn't that bad. I'll have to order it plain though, I hate mayonnaise.

With all this fast food that clearly is not good for you to eat on a regular basis, I'm surprised that nobody has ever tried to open a chain of fast food restaurants that actually has food that is good for you. Like fish sandwiches that aren't deep fried. And something other than fries for a side dish like sauted mushrooms or corn on the cob.

The closest I have seen to this is Boston Market, which offers rotisserie chicken and turkey sandwiches with a choice of sides that includes squash, string beans, corn, cauliflower, etc. If you ever see one of those, stop in and give it a try.

[Jennikins]

Grampa, I most definitely will try one of those veggie burgers. I've tried them and like 'em. I hope they don't disappear off BK's menu.

[Focault's Pendulum]

........have had these for years. They call them "coasters".

I've never tried to eat an AOL installation disk.

[doug from upland]

Military kids are doing fine. Thanks.

Actually, with garlic salt, fat free mayo, loads of onions, and guacamole, a veggie burger is actually pretty good. For a time after 1991 I did not even eat fish. Then I started with shark because I figured that he'd eat me so screw 'em. Then I started eating salmon because it is good for your heart (I'm 53 -- my dad died at 56). Then I figured it was okay for me to eat fish because they spend all day eating each other anyway. Still, no meat or chicken since 1991. The only thing I miss is gravy, so I put mushroom soup on mashed potatoes. That works.

[cerberus]

It amazes me that some people will eat "hamburger" (not "ground beef") weiners, sausage, bologna, salami, "potted" meat, pepperoni, etc. but they are repulsed by something with grains, nuts and soy.

I like all of those things, but I don't eat them often and I have to try try not to think too much about what I might be eating when I have them.

...and, by the way, in case any of you get the wrong idea, my kid can beat the snot out of your honor student!!

Three heads are better than one,

cerberus

[doug from upland]

California Pizza Kitchen, for all the S. Calif. FReepers, has one of the great eggplant dishes ever.

[Grampa Dave]

Well good luck.

Most of the vegetarians out here have replaced their religion with the vegies until they have a serious health problem.

I like my veggies too and my fruits with my protein of the day, real fish, real fowl, real beef, real pork or real lamb. Our dinner tonight will be chuckar charcoal broiled, grilled asparagus, Cous Cous or wild rice, rosemary bread, tossed greens and some fruit for desert!

When the food nazis came down on meat and eggs a lot of people stopped their intake of Lutein, which is vital to health eyes. We may never fully calculate the harm to peoples eyes due to the no egg hysteria.

Mothers stopped giving their children whole milk after stopping nursing their children. Now the good pediatricians and family practice doctors have to be adamant to Mothers to give whole milk to babies until they are two years of age!

All things in moderation usually results in a better diet than the radical chic diet of the day with zero real science!

As my family md says, "Show me a vegan or strict vegitarian, and I will show you an unhappy and starving person!" He has had two children as young adults go throught this malady until a medical crisis gave them a wake up call!

Now they are healthy and enjoy a diet of moderation of all good things!

Now back to my original prediction this Blarney Stone PC addition to the BK menu will be gone in a year!

[Grampa Dave]

Buy them quick before they disappear!

[dixiechick2000]

Hi, Grampa! Good to see you.

" Vegans, fitness eaters and PETA members do not go to Burger King to eat. "

Well, I'm not one of those, but I am almost a vegetarian. It's not a political statement...I have never cared much for meat of any kind. I've always been a veggie eater. This will give me a choice that I may like (don't know yet...haven't tried it) and the rest of the family can get their burgers.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Oh, I love beef! But I have tried some veggie burgers and liked them too.... I'm not anti=beef!!!! lol

[Dog Gone]

You're right. The health nuts will try this burger but BK isn't their style. Pizza Hut might lose their minds and offer a cheese-less pizza, too.

But not for long.

[Balding_Eagle]

This is being done for strictly legal defensive purposes. Those who predict that this burger will probably fail to sell are probably right. BK knows it too. Their attorneys also know that they are in for a fight of their financial lives. They are probably BARELY going to survive.

I for one won't buy it because I don't want to give those who want to sue BK and others out of existence on the notion that the public would eat healthier IF ONLY BK and others would give them a choice.

Heads up folks, the eventual settlements are going to make the tobbaco settlements look like pocket change. AND we will have to make our own burgers at home, cuz the BK's everywhere will be serving coasters! (Good line dead, #3)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

For some reason, the older I get (and I soon will be ...uh... 29, again) I have to NOT think about what is in some of the things we eat......