McWhat? McVeggie? Tastes good and has a low carb content. Can't be true, can it?

In case you haven't followed my vegetarian escapades, I recently tried meat again for the first time, and found I didn't like it.

Vegetarian rating of 5 types of meat, a follow-up to the original, all too tempting test.
Placing vegetarianism on the chopping block...

Time for the McVeggie.  Of course this isn't meat, but it sure does taste pretty close.  The sandwich only rings in at a few net carbs (carbs your body turns into fat), comes on a whole wheat bun, and has a decent (though not stellar) BBQ type sauce on it.  They give you the normal McD's lettuce, tomato, pickel alotment, but other than that this really is a good veggie burger.

How could I describe the taste?  Well, better than a Boca Burger for sure.  They have a unique blend of spices that makes it more similar to what an actual burger might taste like.  With the low net carbs, maybe even some Atkins individuals might find this a welcome change from the all meat portions they generally get.  The price rings in at only 2 bucks, so the price point is better than Kid Valley and Ruby's.  Since McD's has a wider store saturation vegetarians can now easily find fast food when they get hungry without having to go to a sit-down restaurant.

Published Thursday, April 08, 2004 6:12 PM by Justin Rogers
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Friday, April 09, 2004 12:16 AM by Chris Martin

# re: McWhat? McVeggie? Tastes good and has a low carb content. Can't be true, can it?

Now this is something that I'd thought I'd never see. A veggie recommending McDonalds. If I were still a veggie, I'd virtually smack you across the face. :)
Friday, April 09, 2004 12:47 AM by Justin Rogers

# re: McWhat? McVeggie? Tastes good and has a low carb content. Can't be true, can it?

Yves is virtually the best vegetarian food product company in the US. After making vegetarian food products for 60 years now, I think Mc D's did the *right thing* here and is actually selling a worthy product.

I understand the disgust. I tend to be a *puritan* vegetarian, eating very few of the meat-like foods. However, I'm going to make an exception in this case, probably about once a month.

I still need to figure out if the fries are truly Vegan... (check out the three period ellipses ;-)
Friday, April 09, 2004 3:39 AM by Shannon J Hager

# re: McWhat? McVeggie? Tastes good and has a low carb content. Can't be true, can it?

I began the path back to eating meat with sushi. It was as pure as you can get with meat. I have come to the conclusion that the measure of quality of food is the measure how how raw you can eat it. If a food can't be eaten raw, I have to say something is wrong with it.

But the major lesson I learned upon growing a love for sushi, which lead to a love for good, rare quality steaks, was that I was able to give up meat because my whole life I had eaten badly cooked pieces of mediocre-to-bad meat. I think I was 24 before I had a great steak. I actually thought that the stuff I grew up on was as good as it gets, boy was I wrong.

I still say that the major cause of vegetarians is bad cooking. I know people that still put steak sauce on steaks. If you have to put sauce on it, you cooked it wrong or it was a piece of meat that isn't really worth eating.

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