Earth Month Fast-Food Specials, April Fools’ Funnies, and More Vegan News of the Week

It seems that each and every 7 days in vegan food items information is far more enjoyable than the past and this week is no exception. For Earth Thirty day period, vegan speedy-foodstuff chains Veggie Grill and Up coming Amount Burger are celebrating with new menu items and promotions. An Almost everything Bagel-seasoned vegan chocolate just released for all your 4/20 desires. And this year’s April Fools’ jokes—brought to you by vegan faves this kind of as Tofurky—were funnier than ever. Read through on for much more. 

1Earth Month arrives at Veggie Grill

Feeding on classic quickly food—with all of its environmentally damaging beef and dairy—is not a very good way to honor the planet. Nevertheless, when that rapid-food stuff is vegan, it is a total unique tale. And vegan fast-food items chain Veggie Grill is celebrating Earth Thirty day period with numerous new initiatives. 

Veggie Grill

Initial, the chain—along with its Stand-Up Burgers and Más Veggies brands—is encouraging plant-dependent newcomers broaden their horizons on VG Rookie Working day (April 25). That working day, any client who delivers a vegan 1st-timer to any Veggie Grill-operated business enterprise will get a BOGO meal. What does Veggie Grill provide? Consider shareable applications these types of as Buffalo wings and large salads topped with vegan chicken, together with basic burgers with all the fixin’s, sides, and desserts. Its sister brands also offer you a broad selection of novice-welcoming meals from burgers to tacos. All of the items that help retain rookie vegans on keep track of. 

Veggie Grill is also assisting the planet with its VG Vintage Burger, which is designed with a Further than Meat burger, American cheese, exclusive sauce, lettuce, tomato, and onion, served on a vegan brioche bun. All over the thirty day period of April, Veggie Grill will donate a portion of proceeds from the VG Common Burger to Grades of Environmentally friendly, an corporation that gives younger men and women equipment and resources to make a greener foreseeable future.  

2Spicy spring menu at Future Amount Burger

Earth Thirty day period celebrations continue at quick-meals chain Next Stage Burger (NLB) in which spring is all about spice. The chain is introducing 16 new solutions, like burgers, brats, and rooster sandwiches, numerous of which come with a kick of warmth. 

Notable spicy things consist of the Hearth Chik’n Burger (slathered with dwelling-made Upcoming Level ghost sauce) Ghost Pepper Popper Burger (which functions a spicy ghost pepper ranch) and Spicy Kraut Brat (which will get its heat from pickled jalapeño and spicy brown mustard). 

Up coming Amount Burger

The menu also attributes a new Superior Catch Crispy Fish Burger manufactured with a Excellent Catch fish patty, lemon-herb hayo, lettuce, tomato, and American cheese. Not only does this vegan fish burger preserve the ocean by changing fish with a vegan choice but from now until finally April 30, 10 % of its proceeds will advantage non-profit environmental business Ocean Blue Task. 

Owned by vegan couple Matt and Cierra de Gruyter, NLB has been serving up Earth-helpful speedy-meals considering that its 1st location opened in Oregon in 2014. The chain has due to the fact expanded to spots within Full Food stuff Markets in California, Washington, Texas, New York, and Colorado with ideas to open 1,000 spots from coast to coast.  

3Everything Bagel seasoning on a chocolate bar?

On April 20, Earth Thirty day period celebrations turn to praising 1 distinct plant and a collaboration in between two Los Angeles spot firms is taking this year’s snacking to a full new stage. Cleverly-named bagel chain Yeastie Boys and elevated edibles manufacturer Kiva Confections have merged their talents to make this year’s Munchies Bar—a chocolate bar Kiva launches in small batches each individual calendar year. 

Kiva Confections

This year, the cold water hash-infused dark chocolate bar receives a generous sprinkle of Yeastie Boys’ signature Almost everything Bagel salty seasoning. That means that the underside of this marginally sweet chocolate bar is pressed with sesame and poppy seeds, garlic, onion and salt for a enjoyable sweet and salty (… and garlicky) snack.     

The All the things Bagel Seasoning Munchies Bars—which comprise a total of 100mg of THC each—are out there for $20 a pop at pick out dispensaries throughout California although supplies past. 

4Humorous vegan April Fools’ jokes

April Fools’ is that divisive holiday when everyone’s lie-detecting techniques are on superior alert and this 12 months, vegan makes brought some excellent jokes.

Chickpea pasta brand name Banza teased its “Just the Sauce” packets of mac and cheese sauce, one of which was produced in a plant-primarily based selection. The joke right here is that Banza pretended to make a authentic product similar to shopper responses on Banza’s (actual) new mac and cheese foods. Turns out its consumers want just the sauce to use on other points and Banza’s April 1 suggestions include granola, apples, and just a spoon.  

The Tofurky Enterprise

Other makes received in on the foolery, way too. Tofurky is seemingly bottling meaty scents that have operate off from their steam ovens in 3 delectable “pure ‘furkin’ seltzer flavors: Slammin’ Smokehouse, Poppin’ Pepper, and Grateful Gravy. Vegan chain HipCityVeg is supplying a (absolutely faux but probably delightful?) Sweet Potato Fries Shake served with a squeeze of raspberry ketchup. And raisin brand name Sunlight-Maid launched “grape jerky” which is created by drying grapes in the great ol’ sun—and if this “jerky” seems a large amount like standard raisins, that’s due to the fact it is. 

Over in Europe, German manufacturer GREENFORCE—which counts vegan strongman Patrik Baboumian as an ambassador—took followers back again to the 1600s with the “launch” of its Dodo Burgers, real vegan burgers built to taste accurately like extinct dodo birds … and the joke arrived with a effective concept. 

“Not considering that 1681 has the world witnessed dodos. It is a tragedy in lots of approaches and an illustration of human-induced extinction,” Baboumian claimed in a assertion. “Who knows… if delicious plant-centered meat had been obtainable back then, potentially we would continue to have Dodos today. We have to come across a way to make confident this sort of point doesn’t materialize yet again and offer individuals options to taking in animals.”

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Also, did you know that Starbucks finally dropped its vegan milk surcharge? But here’s the capture: it only applies to its new CauliMilk, a vegan milk manufactured from luscious, indulgent, and marginally sulfuric cauliflower. 

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Anna Starostinetskaya is the Senior News Editor at VegNews and is always maintaining an eye on all things vegan in her residence city of San Francisco, CA and almost everywhere else.