Vegan Dreams Come True as Disney Parks Partner With Impossible Meats

February 25, 2020 Admin 0 Comments

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It’s part of the company’s attempt to make vegan options more available

Disney and Impossible Foods have reportedly partnered to make the meat substitute available throughout the Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, and the Disney Cruise Line. Last year, Disney announced a plan to introduce vegan options to 602 eateries across its parks. Impossible is already being served as a burger at Burger King nationwide, but as CNN points out, it can also be made into other foods like chili or lasagna.

Disney will reveal three new Impossible-based menu items at the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival—the Petite Impossible Burger with guacamole and pepper jack cheese, Impossible Cheeseburger macaroni and cheese, and an Impossible Meatball sub sandwich. It’s hard to overstate what a huge partnership this is for Impossible, and how many more people will likely try plant-based meat because of it. One day, the trend may slow down, but it certainly doesn’t look like that’ll be any time soon.

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