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In several countries in Europe, McDonald's has served plant-based alternatives for years. In Sweden they serve the McVegan, for example: https://www.mcdonalds.com/se/sv-se/product/mcvegan.html

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In Sweden, we also have the chain called Max, which was quite early, and more importantly, serves a wide variety of products based on non-red-meat (plant, chicken, fish). They are generally pretty good too.

https://www.max.se/maten/meny/green/

This, imo, is more important than serving the token plant based one, which on the other hand is better than zero. Gotta start somewhere.

edit: actually, all those linked above are non-meat stuff, all 13 of them.

Made in cooperation with Orkla's Anamma brand: https://www.orkla.com/news/mcdonalds-chooses-vegetarian-burg...

We have the McVeggie over here (Portugal) which are meh, but I recently discovered Linda McCartney's veggie burgers and I have fooled a couple of people thinking it was meat. They are very very good IMHO.

Interesting! Where do you buy those in Portugal?

You have some stores around Lisbon, there is one in Estrela. You can also google it and some major chains say they have it but I haven't tried ordering online.

McDonald's had an all-veggie burger back in the 80's in the United States, but it went away.

I don't know if it was nationwide, or regional. It came out around the same time as the McDLT, which was awesome.

(As an aside, one of the things that has always bugged me about McDonald's is its menu inconsistency from market to market. The franchisees have too much power, IMO. I have to drive a few hundred miles each year to get McRibs because the local franchise owners won't carry it. And McRibs don't freeze well.)

In the 90s Burger King had an incredible 'meat like' vege burger here in Europe. As a freshly vegetarian teenager at the time it was my go too 'faux flesh'. For some unknown reason they cut it from the menu in favour of their rather awful 'bean burger'.

In Germany they introduced the Big Vegan TS (based on the Nestlé Incredible Burger) in April 2019. As far as I know it found great adoption and they even added the smaller Veganburger TS (same patty) to their menu. With the Big Vegan TS and all the sauces on there you can hardly tell it isn’t meat.

The plant based hula burger didn't do so well in the US. Times are different now though...

Although, I do also wonder if a plant is the same thing colloquially as a "plant based alternative".

I never saw it in France

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