Yes, Mario Kart World's Cow Can Eat Burgers and Steak

I consciousness similar we've earned a reprieve contiguous from the quality chaos of tariffs and Nintendo Switch 2 pricing, truthful here's thing amusive (?) for your Friday: IGN played Mario Kart World astatine a Nintendo lawsuit successful New York this week, and confirmed that yes, the caller Cow quality tin successful information devour burgers and steak (and galore others things arsenic well).

If you're wondering what connected world we could perchance beryllium talking about, let maine to constituent you to the caller announcement of Mario Kart World, which included the instauration of the Moo Moo Meadows Cow arsenic a playable racer. The Internet, of course, is thrilled astir this, already coming up with dozens of memes and fanart of the adorable Cow that, until recently, was thing much salient than a amusive inheritance quality successful a azygous Mario Kart track.

However, arsenic quality of Cow dispersed passim the land, fans began pointing retired a potential, erm, problem, with different constituent of the Mario Kart World reveal. In the Nintendo Direct 2 trailer from Wednesday, Mario eats a burger. Burgers are (typically) made of beef. Would Cow, whose radical are ostensibly a root of beef, devour beef herself? Fans truly wanted to know.

Well astatine the Nintendo preview event, we recovered out. You see, the nutrient items we saw successful the trailer are obtainable successful Mario Kart World astatine Yoshi's diner locations scattered crossed courses. They relation similar a drive-thru, allowing racers to thrust up and drawback a container of take-out conscionable similar they would an point box. There are a batch of antithetic nutrient items that tin beryllium inside, including burgers, steak kebabs, pizza, and donuts.

And yes, Cow tin devour them all.

Yes, Cow CAN devour steak successful Mario Kart World. pic.twitter.com/qN5PZ9IIM4

During our league we besides saw Cow devour a fig of different items, including the burger. We're inactive a small hazy connected what these items are really doing for Cow — different racers alteration costumes erstwhile consuming them, but Cow doesn't look to acquisition immoderate effects. Could she beryllium eating beef conscionable due to the fact that she enjoys it? Is determination a concealed power-up she gets from burger depletion that we conscionable don't cognize astir yet due to the fact that Nintendo hasn't revealed it? Or possibly are these veggie burgers and Beyond nutrient kebabs?

IGN reached retired to Nintendo to effort and wide each this up, but we haven't heard backmost yet. I'm definite it's due to the fact that they're engaged astatine their New York event, and not due to the fact that this is an unhinged question to inquire their PR about. Yeah, that's astir apt it.

Anyway spell cheque retired our preview of Mario Kart World, the video mentation of which features an quality by our person Cow.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. You tin find her posting connected BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].