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posted by martyb on Saturday December 03 2016, @07:14AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:34PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:34PM (#436565) Journal
    For me, I stopped eating frequently at McDonalds in the 1980s. But I stopped when McDs started doing hardcore portion control and getting things like really foamy ice cream and hamburgers without pickles. Occasionally, I'll be stuck going to a McDs, say if I'm with someone else who wants to go there. The food is better than it's been in the past, but that's not saying much.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @06:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @06:20PM (#436575)

    Most of the McDonald's I've been to recently have had crisp counter service and reasonably clean tables and restrooms. They do that part of the business better than many of their competitors.