Kendrick Lamar may have inspired deep thinking with his most recent album To Pimp a Butterfly. Now the rapper has inspired a healthy salad called, "Beets Don't Kale My Vibe." The slogan is a play on words of the rapper's track from his good kid, m.A.A.d city album.
According to Fact Magazine, Lamar teamed up with sweetgreen, a sustainable health food chain dedicated to providing "delicious food that's both healthy for you and aligned with your values," to endorse healthy eating and a salad with a really cool name.
Sweetgreen has used the slogan since 2013 but now has decided to create the actual salad to match the Kendrick-inspired phrase.
The healthy food chain will host its annual "sweetlife Festival" on May 30-31 at Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion. Lamar will headline the event in celebration of the pun and the real-life Kendrick-inspired salad. Now on the menu, the salad includes:
"...organic wild rice, shredded kale, roasted beets and red onions, local goat cheese, roasted chicken, honey-glazed pecans and our housemade balsamic vinaigrette."
The push for healthy living doesn't stop there. Sweetgreeen has agreed to donate 10% of the salad's proceeds to FoodCorps. Sweetgreen partners with FoodCorps as a schools charity partner. In a statement by sweetgreen, the food chain highlights its goals for the partnership:
"sweetgreen in schools is our homegrown program that educates kids about healthy eating, fitness and sustainability through fun, hands-on activities. What began in 2010 as a one-week curriculum in Washington, D.C. has since grown into a series of wellness workshops involving more than 1,000 students across DC, MD, VA and NYC each year."
"Beets Don't Kale My Vibe" will be available for purchase in the U.S at all 29 branches of the sweetgreen chain, beginning May. The healthy good kid, mA.A.d city-inspired salad will also make an appearance at the sweetlife festival May 30-31.
