<story><title>Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522637/burger-king-impossible-whopper-nationwide-rollout-meatless-vegetarian</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmason</author><text>In America only one or two percent are vegetarians.  In England it&amp;#x27;s over twenty percent!  That&amp;#x27;s the reason it pays to cater to them.&lt;p&gt;My sister is a vegan and on my urging she tried an impossible burger when it first came to San Francisco and she loved it.&lt;p&gt;But Burger King is cooking the impossible burger on the same grill upon which they&amp;#x27;re grilling the meat.  I haven&amp;#x27;t asked her but I&amp;#x27;m guessing most vegans won&amp;#x27;t be buying their impossible burgers at Burger King for that reason.</text></item><item><author>hhs</author><text>I lived in England for a bit and remember fast food places commonly having veggie burgers.  This was both in Burger King and McDonald&amp;#x27;s.  It was super convenient for that occasional quick bite.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s?  Is this a business decision or something else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>No, it&amp;#x27;s not. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t even say it&amp;#x27;s 5%, let alone 20%.&lt;p&gt;You only have to walk into a supermarket to see this is nonsense, meat vs veggie options are like 10 to 1.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re referencing one widely debunked survey (this is about the vegan part of it, but it applied to the whole study and the vegetarian percentage claim (of 14%, not 20%), is discussed and debunked later in the article):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fullfact.org&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;vegans-uk&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fullfact.org&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;vegans-uk&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know 1 vegan and 1 vegetarian, but I know at least 6 ex-vegetarians.</text></comment>
<story><title>Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522637/burger-king-impossible-whopper-nationwide-rollout-meatless-vegetarian</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmason</author><text>In America only one or two percent are vegetarians.  In England it&amp;#x27;s over twenty percent!  That&amp;#x27;s the reason it pays to cater to them.&lt;p&gt;My sister is a vegan and on my urging she tried an impossible burger when it first came to San Francisco and she loved it.&lt;p&gt;But Burger King is cooking the impossible burger on the same grill upon which they&amp;#x27;re grilling the meat.  I haven&amp;#x27;t asked her but I&amp;#x27;m guessing most vegans won&amp;#x27;t be buying their impossible burgers at Burger King for that reason.</text></item><item><author>hhs</author><text>I lived in England for a bit and remember fast food places commonly having veggie burgers.  This was both in Burger King and McDonald&amp;#x27;s.  It was super convenient for that occasional quick bite.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s?  Is this a business decision or something else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DominikPeters</author><text>The UK&amp;#x27;s vegetarian rate is more like 10% as far as I recall. Since cooking veggie burgers on the same grill as meat burgers doesn&amp;#x27;t lead to additional harm to animals, I hope and expect most vegans to be happy to go for it -- veganism is not an allergy.</text></comment>