{"id":74311,"date":"2026-06-01T19:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/white-castle-adds-veggie-burger-to-menu-as-plant-based-eating-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:10:39","slug":"white-castle-adds-veggie-burger-to-menu-as-plant-based-eating-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/white-castle-adds-veggie-burger-to-menu-as-plant-based-eating-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"White Castle adds veggie burger to menu as plant-based eating grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio-based slider chain introduces Southwest Veggie Slider permanently after customer feedback for meatless option<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/vegetarianism\">Vegetarians<\/a> have a new reason to celebrate: White Castle has added a permanent meat-free option to its menu.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Columbus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ohio\">Ohio<\/a>-based slider chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260601343200\/en\/White-Castle-Introduces-Veggie-Slider-as-a-New-Permanent-Menu-Item\">announced<\/a> the launch of the Southwest Veggie Slider, featuring a crispy brown rice crust and a smoky chipotle- and barbecue-inspired veggie patty made with sweet potatoes, black beans, corn, red bell peppers, onions and carrots.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/01\/white-castle-veggie-burger-menu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio-based slider chain introduces Southwest Veggie Slider permanently after customer feedback for meatless option Vegetarians have a new reason to celebrate: White Castle has added a permanent meat-free option to its menu. On Monday, the Columbus, Ohio-based slider chain announced the launch of the Southwest Veggie Slider, featuring a crispy brown rice crust and a &#8230; <a title=\"White Castle adds veggie burger to menu as plant-based eating grows\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/white-castle-adds-veggie-burger-to-menu-as-plant-based-eating-grows\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about White Castle adds veggie burger to menu as plant-based eating grows\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}