They call it the Royale with Cheese.
On account of the metric system.
The 100 gramer burger
Pretty sure it’s called a Krustyburger with cheese
Ho ho ho ho, no! They’re patented Skinnerburgers! Old family recipe…
Cute art
Ah yes the marketing major quick fix excuse, “No sir I didn’t do a poor job selling your product! The customers are all just too stupid to buy it!”
I think there’s a legit degree of lyrical quality to “quarter pounder” that doesn’t come off the same as “third pounder” or “half pounder”. Its just more fun to say.
I wonder what a fix on that specifically would look like, double-quarter-pounder? Dirty Poun…that already sounded better in my head and I didn’t even say it out loud lol.
You mean a Royale with cheese?
Guess the 0.11 kilo burger didn’t have the same ring to it.
I suppose they didn’t want to bind it yet again to a unit and go with a name they could use in many countries. 113g burger would’ve probably worked. But increasing it to 125g or 1/8 kg would probably been better.
In Germany McD at first literally translated its quarter pounder as Viertelpfunder, but then switched to Hamburger Royal. They might have realized that that was actually 125g and not the intended 113g. Pound isn’t a context-free or precise unit.
In Germany McD at first literally translated its quarter pounder as Viertelpfunder
Wow, must have been really far back. I remember it was the Royale there in the 80s.
I got that from wikipedia and it says they changed it in the 80s.
Kiloburger does kinda have a nice ring to it.
Where I live McRoyal is simply a large cheeseburger
I’m inclined to believe it. I worked for a Wall Street firm when the stock market switched from fractional quotations to decimal. Lots of my coworkers printed out a conversion table from fractions to decimals, and even so often had problems figuring out which of two quotations was greater than the other one (in decimals). Those were smart people, but if you work with one system for so long, your brain gets hardwired and difficult to change.
That they still use fractional in tbills futures hurts my brain.
I’m always fascinated by people who view % as a unit. 1/4, 0.25, .25, 25% … all the same number
Though I get it when people get confused by non-decimal stuff … like 0.25h being 15min
I used to get the 1/3 pounder all the time. Sad they are gone.
I know what this refers to but I still can’t help but think it was simply A&W’s and McDonald’s marketing, because Carl’s Jr. has 1/3lbs burgers as the default size.
I genuinely had a mortgage advisor point at a > and go “is that more than or less than, I never can remember?”
I ended up not taking his advice on a mortgage, although I did also fix his printer before he left. I did this by clearing 150 jobs from the print queue.
I went to a notary and she asked me “Do I sign here?” I didn’t even know what a notary was, let alone what they’re supposed to do.
Can’t understand sigils. Printer was cursed. Makes sense.
That takes me way back to grade 1 where the way I was taught was to imagine an alligator eating the bigger number. I think all year I even drew teeth on them!
Same. I just don’t tell people I’m thinking about it when I’m giving them financial advice or something related thereto.
It’s a fucking arrow pointing from big to small. It has a big end that goes at the big number and a small end that goes at the small number.
It couldn’t be simpler.
People still can’t remember.
I mean I get having trouble with Trig… But this ?
I prefer the alligators.
I know people near there 30’s who still can’t tell left from right.
sounds like a spatial perception issue, i have dyspraxia and that fucked up my left from right a lot when i was younger. i could imagine worse dyspraxia making it bad as an adult
I hit a wall at trig. Far as I got in math, and I’ve been a programmer for over half my career.
Have always wanted to go back and learn trig and calc, but have never had the chance. Probably at this point would do better just to sit down w a text book and teach myself.
Same but I think it was sharks and I would draw the whole shark
I think we were told that as well, but I preferred to think of it as Pac-Man’s mouth.
Branding issue… shoulda called it the “bigger by half” burger… Or just mega pounder.
shoulda called it the “bigger by half” burger
That would be 3/8 not 1/3.
Americans are so dumb they couldn’t figure out 1/3 is bigger than 1/4. U throw 3/8 at them and their brains melt.
What are those signs?
The alligator faces the bigger meal.
Is it true, or is it a rumor? “Quarter Pounder” is a little more fun to say, might’ve been a marketing strategy.
It is true.
From A&W’s website: https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractions
The red one might’ve been trolling.
Poe’s Law, no way to know for sure.
Hanlon’s razor
Yes, the excessive question marks, very telling.
I wish I had a friend group. Even if it had the red dude in it.
we’re not gonna make it, are we?
Why haven’t they slowly made them “bigger” over time? 1/5 pounder, 1/6 pounder…
Rising food prices mean smaller burgers and pizzas at restaurants
In May, Bloomberg reported that fast-casual chains, including Burger King, Domino’s and Subway, were all reducing their portion sizes in response to the rising cost of food.
Which is a good and bad. Good because Americans are fat af. Bad because they will just buy more of the same at a higher cost for no reason other than complacency
Even if they don’t buy more, reducing the size of fast food portions would not really help that problem.
