Dear McDonalds, Where's your Veggie Burger?

Drive-throughs are particularly hard for vegetarians. You could always order a salad, but if I don't trust the salad bar at Lenoir, there's no way you'll ever catch me within a 5ft radius of a McDonalds salad. And I suppose you could always order fries and a drink and eat real food later, but McDonalds actually got into a messy lawsuit when they were discovered cooking their fries with meat products and serving them to known vegetarians. In India, the vegetarian and meat dishes are cooked in separate kitchens and the vegetarian cooks wear special gloves and green aprons. So vegetarians, and people in general, I wouldn't eat the fries at McDonalds.

Anyway, that brings me back to my first question: where is McDonalds' veggie burger? And I'm not the only person asking. Here's McDonalds' official statement regarding the absence of a veggie burger:

"After testing several types of veggie burgers in different parts of the country, we've chosen not to offer one on our national menu at this time. We'll continue to look at these options and make decisions based on good business sense from a customer interest and sales perspective. Ultimately, however, it's our customers who choose what's on our menu. We'll continue to offer those menu items that are most popular with a majority of our customers."

You would think that a company that owns a massive chunk of the world would have the man power and money to invest in an option for vegetarians but then again...

Anyway, thanks for trying McDonalds.