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USAONE@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

McDonald's plans to start selling bigger burgers

www.businessinsider.com

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McDonald's plans to start selling bigger burgers

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USAONE@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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McDonald's says it will be "piloting a new large burger equity."
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    The ⅓-pounder? A&W already tried that, and it flopped, because people don’t understand fractions.

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      *Americans.

      The rest of the world doesn’t bother with fractions of “pounds” in the first place.

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        Fractions work with metric too you know.

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          But you don’t need them since the units already neatly divide. You don’t use a quarter kilo, you’d just say 250 gram.

          Ignoring that where I live the weight of the burger isn’t part of the name in the first place. They are just called “royal”.

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            We have that too. The “Big” Mac.

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              Different burger.

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                No shit? You are just being argumentative now.

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                  Naming a different burger was hardly an argument, I just explained it to you in case you accidently mixed them up.

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                    I was so sure you guys were gonna go off on a Pulp Fiction tangent.

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            I love the metric system and think we should all use it, but 12 (inches in a foot) and 16 (ounces in a pound) both have more factors than 10.

            I still think metric is the best system, but I wish our ancestors had used base 12 counting so we could all use a base 12 metric system and everyone’s life would be better.

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            I’ll have the 0.333333333333333… Kg burger.

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        The 150 grammer

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        Due to branding, they’re still called 1/4 pounder elsewhere.

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        Chippys list burgers in half pounder or quarter pounder.

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      The 33 and 1/3 e10-3 pounder.

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      More likely a half-pounder. They already sell a double quarter pounder. And all Americans know that halfbacks are larger than quarterbacks, from watching Real Football every week.

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      It seems pretty successful for Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr

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      both BK and McD used to sell a 1/3-lb burger for a while in the early-mid 00s. Wendy’s, too, IIRC. to my recollection, it did ok in sales, but was maligned for being “unhealthy”, and both chains stopped selling it shortly thereafter.

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      I’ve heard this a million times. And it honestly sounds like the kind of thing an executive would blame to excuse bad sales.

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        https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

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