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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:47PM (#436568)

    The fries, soaked in fat and covered with salt

    While I prefer fries a bit less salty than McDonalds', it's wrong to characterize that salt as fundamentally unhealthy.
    The idea that we should all limit our salt intake comes from studies linking high sodium intake to heart attacks, and this seems to be true of the population as a whole. But in fact, for most people, salt intake (in realistic amounts) is just not a problem. For a few people, it's a big problem. But if you don't already have hypertension (or certain other health conditions), you're probably okay on "Average American" salt levels.

    As for fat, it does depend on what type of fat, and McDonalds did use partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil containing trans fat from 1990 to 2008, but fats are not unhealthy in general, and don't make you fat, other than as part of the too many calories in, too few out problem.

    You might at this point expect me to say the potato is the surprisingly unhealthy part, but of course I won't; while one should be a little cautious about excessive carbohydrates, they're fine in moderation, and even peeled, potatoes are one of the healthier carbohydrates around. The real unhealthy part of hot, salty, greasy fries is the taste -- they're a calorie-dense food, which should indicate small portions, but taste so good that you're liable to eat more than you should. (Honorable mention to condiments such as sugary ketchup, but I trust that you, dear reader, have better sense than to sully a pretty-good french fry, such as McDonalds serves, with a bad ketchup, such as McDonalds serves.)

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