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Lordy, Lordy, Look Who's 40!

by Victoria Revay | August 24, 2007 at 10:21 am

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The Big Mac turns 40 today. The whopping burger -"two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun, anyone" has humble beginnings, just like the mothership. It was first introduced in 1967 by Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise owner in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. It's popularity spreading fast, making it a staple in all of its restaurants. Today, over 550 million Big Macs are sold each year in the U.S. alone. That's about 17 per second. Not bad for a little burger idea that started out in California drive thru, by two brothers and a milkshake mixer machine sales guy.

Ray Kroc mortgaged his home and invested his entire life savings to become the exclusive distributor of a five-spindled milk shake maker called the Multimixer.

The flavors that come together - it's like heaven in your mouth

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Jordan Yerman

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at 10:27 on August 24th, 2007

I'd sooner eat the Happy Meal container than the burger that comes inside of it...

denseatoms

at 11:05 on August 24th, 2007

Is it the concept or the burgers themselves that are 40 years old?

chibbinavel

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at 11:10 on August 24th, 2007

Victoria Revay, I like this story. It's good stuff. and the Big Mac was way delicious!! ;-)

phrolen

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at 11:22 on August 24th, 2007

Victoria, I have saved a part of every big mac I have ever eaten... on my waistline :) Good Stuff

delmorpha

at 13:41 on August 24th, 2007

The Big Mac is somehow the perfect hangover cure no matter where in the world you are... I've used it in such a way all over the globe and it always does the same trick! :)

The picture you've used from my Flickr is a prime example of such a scenario... one of the first of many hangovers from my time in Korea. The Big Mac is just an awesome example of standardising something in food that can always put a smile on your face.

Stuff Healthy Eating... long live the Big Mac and heres to another 40 years of greatness!