Big Mac turns 40

[Robin Garr]

From the Fast Food News blog:

<table border="0" align="right" width="210"><tr><td><img src="http://www.foodfacts.info/blog/uploaded_images/mcd-big-mac-museum.jpg" border="1" align="right"></td></tr></table> Big Mac celebrates 40 years

McDonald's Big Mac sandwich was first served 40 years ago by its inventor Jim Delligatti (pictured).

To commemorate the creation, the Big Mac Museum Restaurant has opened in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, just 40 miles north of where the first double burger, triple bun sandwich was served in Uniontown for 45 cents.

from USA Today:

<I>"The museum has it all: the world's largest Big Mac — 14 feet tall and 12 feet wide — a bronze bust of Delligatti, a high-tech global Big Mac map and wallpaper peppered the ad 'two-all-beef-patties-special sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a-sesame seed-bun.'

It took Delligatti, now 89, two years to convince McDonald's to allow him to serve up the sandwich. After the first day, he realized that two buns was too sloppy, so the middle bun was injected."</I>

By 1968, the Big Mac was on McDonald's menus nationwide. McDonald's sells 550 million Big Macs each year in over 100 countries.

Delligatti said he still eats an average of one Big Mac a week...and you can tell it's true from the photo!

wow. that's really something.

When I was growing up, there was a McDonald's restaurant (one) within a 15 minute drive of our house. I had to beg, plead and cajole my mother to take me there every once in a blue moon!
It was not considered regular fare for us - more like a twice a year treat. I think the big attraction for me was the commercial - two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion on a sesame seed bun! I'd learned to sing it, of course now I had to eat it. Frankly, even then, it didn't taste all that good to me - I was far more enamored with the chocolate malts.

One generation passes - my brother's kids probably ate it once a week growing up, and maybe more often than that. It's as normal to them as breathing.

Amazing.

In one large regional choral competition in high school, we sang a very musically complex a capella version of the song, and it took the audience about a minute to realize what we were singing. Then they just lost it.

[Robin Garr]

we sang a very musically complex a capella version of the song, and it took the audience about a minute to realize what we were singing. Then they just lost it.

I'm going to eat 40 of them today in honor of this special occasion.

rwj

I'm going to eat 40 of them today in honor of this special occasion.

Well, beware! Bevo is watching. McDonald's puts beans in their chili!

I didn't say that I was going to eat the stew that they pass off as chili. Perhaps I should send a copy of Post #2 to their corporate offices?

rwj

Big Mac may be 40, but the meat looks like it's 80.

Big Mac may be 40, but the meat looks like it's 80.

Ain't ya' never heard o' aged beef!?

I'll speculate that forty is also the average lifespan of people who eat them regularly!