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?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:34PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @06:20PM
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.