“McDonald’s is launching its first plant-based burger in the UK after three years of research and development. The long-awaited McPlant burger features a plant-based patty developed in collaboration with Beyond Meat and promises customers a pea protein-based vegan cheese that ‘tastes just like McDonald’s iconic cheese slices’. It will be served on a vegan sesame bun with a vegan sauce, lettuce, onion, tomato, pickles, ketchup and mustard. According to McDonald’s, the McPlant is cooked separately from non-vegan McDonald’s menu items and uses dedicated utensils. The burger is certified by the Vegan Society and contains 429 calories” the Independent reports.
Newsmax host Greg Kelly, famous for his rants about “McSalad” and “McFish” (neither of which are canonical name of McDonald’s menu items), and harboring serious body image issues, would probably be a big fan of the McPlant should it ever come stateside. Even better would be if he read the Independent article’s headline (but not the text explaining that it’s currently only available at a handful of UK locations where it’s being test marketed), and then tweeted a lengthy rant about how his local “MACDONALD’S didn’t have any MCPLANTBURGERS so HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HAVE A HEALTHIER DIET” and an argument with the manager that may or may not have actually happened.