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on Saturday December 03 2016, @07:14AM
from the two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a-sesame-seed-bun dept.
from the two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a-sesame-seed-bun dept.
Michael 'Jim' Delligatti, the inventor of the Big Mac, has died aged 98.
Just how he made it that far, given his fondness for the lard-laden double-decker, is anyone's guess.
Delligatti cooked up the Big Mac in 1965 when, as one of McDonalds' early franchisees, he felt the menu needed a rival for local burger bars' two-storey offerings. In 1967 he put it on the menu at his Uniontown, Pa, restaurant.
McDonalds like what it saw and took it national by 1968.
The rest is history: the Big Mac went on to become a symbol of American culture and capitalism, was accused of felling rainforests and contributed to unknown quantities of myocardial infarctions.
Messiah, or mass-murderer?
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The qotc (quote of the con) was Liz's:
"My brain is paged out to my liver."
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 03 2016, @02:18PM
It's right there in the summary: "contributed to unknown quantities of myocardial infarctions"
Throwing in the bit about rainforests and heart attacks at the end of the obituary made me laugh.
Washington DC delenda est.