11th Feb 2012 In The Mood For Burger

After the giant burger in Denny's Beer Barrel Pub & Burger King's Whopper, Here is the interesting trivia about McDonald's

 

• McDonald's sell more than 1/3 of all the French fries sold in restaurants in the U.S. each year.
• McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options.
• Nearly one in eight workers in the US has at some time been employed by McDonald's.
• In India the 'Big Mac' is changed into the 'Maharaja Mac', a mutton burger in deference to religious injunctions against the consumption of beef and pork.
• Sweden opened the first Ski-through McDonald's in the world.
• More than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated with 'Bachelor of Hamburgerology' degrees from McDonald's 'Hamburger University.'
• McDonald's three kosher restaurants in Israel are the only McDonald's in the world where you cannot buy a cheeseburger.
• Since its founding in 1955, McDonald's has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.
• The northernmost McDonald's restaurant is located on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland, while the southernmost franchise is located in Invercargill, New Zealand. Also, the world's easternmost McDonald's is located in New Zealand, in the city of Gisborne; the westernmost restaurant is in Western Samoa, as they are the closest to either side of the International date line.

Naturally some of the numbers quoted above are out-of-date, however they do give the scale of the McDonald Operation.

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11th Feb 2012 Is Bigger The Better?

1) Giant Burger

Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, already held the title with a 6lb burger; owners thought a 15-pound burger would prove an even bigger attraction, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Diners who can finish the £25 ($44USD) burger in under five hours win £200 ($350USD), a T-shirt and their name posted on the pub's wall of fame. They also got the burger for free." Every restaurant needs a gimmick - ours is big burgers," said Dennis Liegey III, son of the restaurant's owner.

Visitors come from as far away as Australia and California just to see the 6-pounders and try to eat them. The new burger, dubbed the 'Beer Barrel Belly Buster', is as big around as the inside of a car tyre. Each one comes with a cup and half of mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup, a head of lettuce, two onions, three tomatoes and 25 slices of cheese.

2) Another Whopper

Burger King's left handed whopper:

Going back a bit, In 1998, Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers.

The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version." 

 

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11th Feb 2012 The Dark Side Of Us

I dare say most of us, to more or lesser degree, have a dark side in our nature. Probably, most of us too, have committed errors we are not proud of, or downright ashamed about which, in some small or rather significant way, influenced our life or changed it all together.

Maybe some of you would have seen a fact based film (I haven't but would try to seek it out), about two English teenage girls, best friends, one helped the other to murder the latter's mother, and both had been prosecuted and had severely paid for the crime. The 'accomplice' had since remade her life and became a successful thriller writer, pen-named Anne Perry. 

 

She is here in Barcelona attending the 'BCNegra' - Barcelona Black-Week (dark and mysterious literature and novel, an annual convention of famous international crime writers). She graciously granted an interview with the media, under the strict condition that the 'mistake' of her youth must not be in anyway mentioned.

Reasonable request I think. After 40 years rebuilding her life, 15 of which with her past made internationally known and immortalized in a book and by a film, she must have been punished enough, not just by law and generally outcasted, as well as the aftermath she must have endured, but her own shame and conscience, the ignorance and cruelty of youth.

A great number of her novels are about London of the Victorian era. Her latest novel is titled 'A reasonable loss', the 2nd book with the same character, a waterway police agent of the Famous Themes, William Monk, who must confront organised pederasty. 

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