McDonald's New Zealand's Salad Burger is Literally a Burger Minus the Beef Patty

While most vegetarian burgers here in the US include either a veggie patty, a plant-based meat patty, or some other stand-in for meat, McDonald's takes a different tack over in New Zealand, where they're serving up a Salad Burger that is basically a fairly standard burger but without a hamburger patty.

As such, McDonald's Salad Burger features tomato, shredded lettuce, slivered onions, American cheese, two pickles, and peppery McChicken sauce, on a toasted sesame seed bun.

Apparently, the Salad Burger is McDonald's New Zealand's answer to Burger King's New Zealand's burger of the same name.

Burger King's Salad Burger is slightly different though. Most notably, it includes onion rings. Besides the onion rings, it offers a familiar combination of lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, American cheese, and mayo, on a toasted sesame seed bun.

Photo via McDonald's New Zealand and Burger King New Zealand, respectively.