Herbivores, the veggie burger is quickly becoming a fast food staple.
American fast food chain Wendy's is testing a veggie burger in two of its Columbus, Ohio restaurants, thanks to a Change.org petition. The new meat-free (and square-shaped!) option is a black bean patty served on a multigrain bun with pepperjack cheese, asiago ranch sauce, tomato, red onion and spring mix greens, according to its menu.
This follows White Castle's and Burger King's veggie-friendly alternatives, showing the future of fast food may just be meatless.
But since Wendy's has yet to announce the veggie burger's nationwide release, we cooked our own veggie patties to create a vegan version of one of the chain's most notorious dishes: The Baconator. You know, that double patty, double bacon, double cheese monstrosity.
Instructions:
2 fine veggie patties of your choosing (see below). Microwave or bake. Grill only if you're the queen of England.
Add 1 heaping pile of spookily wavy vegan bacon.
Insert 2 slices of soy American cheese, which tastes too much like regular American cheese for our comfort levels.
Sandwich amidst 1 standard, pretty boring hamburger bun unless you're into pretzel buns, fancypants.
You don't have to stop at one kind of veggie patty. Feast your eyes on all these fake grill marks and suspicious seed clusters.
1. Sweet Earth's Santa Fe Veggie Burger
2. SoyBoy Okara Courage Burger
3. Lightlife Smart Patties Original Burger with Quinoa
4. Field Roast Hand-Formed Burger
5. Wildwood Sproutofu Veggie Burger Original
