{"id":28345,"date":"2020-06-19T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2607720"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:34:00","slug":"greta-thunburger-veggie-burger-described-as-full-of-hot-air-upsets-vegans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/19\/greta-thunburger-veggie-burger-described-as-full-of-hot-air-upsets-vegans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Greta Thunburger\u2019 Veggie Burger, Described As \u2018Full Of Hot Air\u2019, Upsets Vegans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4127-logo-727.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vegans in Australian are not too happy with this food truck&rsquo;s description of its vegan burger&mdash;the &lsquo;Greta Thunburger&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Lazy Gramps in Melbourne has unveiled its plant-based burger, and it is named after teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg. According to Uber Eats, the burger is &ldquo;light on facts and high on carbon monoxide.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You ruined my meat!&rdquo; it reads, in reference to Thunberg&rsquo;s speech at the UN back in 2019 where she said &ldquo;you have stolen my childhood with your empty words.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She may be full of hot air, light on facts and high on carbon monoxide but how deer you mock this little number,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandt.com.au\/full-of-hot-air-light-on-facts-vegans-fume-at-melbourne-burger-joints-greta-thunburger\/\">described<\/a>&nbsp;the eatery. The &lsquo;Greta Thunburger&rsquo; is served with tomato, pickles, lettuce, hummus sauce, home-style falafel and &ldquo;minimum carbon footprint.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vegans were not impressed at all, and according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/disgust-at-burger-named-after-greta-thunberg-070408416.html\">Yahoo News<\/a>, one person described it as &ldquo;tone deaf at best, disgusting at worst.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Other social media users accused the eatery of &ldquo;belittling a child.&rdquo; &ldquo;If someone said all this about me I&rsquo;d laugh but I always find the criticism of Thunberg difficult because she&rsquo;s so young,&rdquo; a user said. &ldquo;Besides the offence and attempt at belittling a child, the burger doesn&rsquo;t sound appealing,&rdquo; another chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Lazy Gramps&rsquo; owver, William, the stunt was meant to be a &ldquo;joke.&rdquo; The description was mainly &ldquo;aimed at mainstream media&rdquo; which, according to Thunberg, &ldquo;push division among people by pushing a certain narrative of us versus them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The &lsquo;Greta Thunburger&rsquo; is the third most popular burger, and it is currently sold out.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">It is a little ridiculous. Still, at least someone has taken a stand by launching a burger called the Greta Thunberg. Hasn&#8217;t gone down well with some vegans apparently.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Burrell (@CllrSBurrell)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CllrSBurrell\/status\/1273754782545698816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">A Melbourne burger restaurant has felt the full wrath of vegans after it unveiled a new veggie burger it&rsquo;s named the &lsquo;Greta Thunburger&rsquo; in honour of the 17-year-old Swedish environmental activist.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3hATqWlPKQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/3hATqWlPKQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B&amp;T (@bandt)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bandt\/status\/1273830616262377474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.designtaxi.com\/news\/410380\/Greta-Thunburger-Veggie-Burger-Described-As-Full-Of-Hot-Air-Upsets-Vegans\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/http:\/\/www.designtaxi.com\/news\/410380\/Greta-Thunburger-Veggie-Burger-Described-As-Full-Of-Hot-Air-Upsets-Vegans\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>DesignTAXI <\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>DesignTAXI <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4127-logo-727.png\" alt=\"\">Vegans in Australian are not too happy with this food truck&rsquo;s description of its vegan burger&mdash;the &lsquo;Greta Thunburger&rsquo;. Lazy Gramps in Melbourne has unveiled its plant-based burger, and it is named after teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg. According to Uber Eats, the burger is &ldquo;light on facts and high on carbon monoxide.&rdquo; &ldquo;You ruined my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/19\/greta-thunburger-veggie-burger-described-as-full-of-hot-air-upsets-vegans\/\">Continue reading <span>&lsquo;Greta Thunburger&rsquo; Veggie Burger, Described As &lsquo;Full Of Hot Air&rsquo;, Upsets Vegans<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/19\/greta-thunburger-veggie-burger-described-as-full-of-hot-air-upsets-vegans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Greta Thunburger\u2019 Veggie Burger, Described As \u2018Full Of Hot Air\u2019, Upsets Vegans - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/19\/greta-thunburger-veggie-burger-described-as-full-of-hot-air-upsets-vegans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Greta Thunburger\u2019 Veggie Burger, Described As \u2018Full Of Hot Air\u2019, Upsets Vegans - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vegans in Australian are not too happy with this food truck&rsquo;s description of its vegan burger&mdash;the &lsquo;Greta Thunburger&rsquo;. 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