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RIP Jim Delligatti - Inventor of the Big Mac



Stat Brother

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A cracking obituary here:-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...608fbb3aaf6_story.html?utm_term=.679bd0b33759

Neither the humpbacked 747 nor the cherry-red public buses that crisscross London surpass the Big Mac as the world’s most famous double-decker. Ever since Jim Delligatti, who died Nov. 28 at 98, created the sandwich in 1967 at a McDonald’s franchise near Pittsburgh, it has been the flagship item of the global fast-food chain, selling more than a half-billion servings annually in the United States alone...


...a totem of consistency instantly recognizable from western Pennsylvania to India, where cows are considered sacred by the nation’s Hindu population and where the Big Mac is made with mutton or chicken and called the Maharaja Mac..


... the Big Mac was a shot across the bow to Burger King’s Whopper, created a decade earlier.
 


Brovion

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98! I bet the guy who invented the wheatgrass and broccoli smoothie doesn't live nearly so long!

#BigMacsaregoodforyou
 




Pavilionaire

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Not lovin' it :(
 














edna krabappel

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They originally anticipated it would be quite a small funeral, but for only 39p, the family decided to go large.
 


Cheeky Monkey

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'McDonalds require that their "fresh lettuce leaf" is treated with twelve different chemicals just to keep it the right colour at the right crispness for the right length of time. It might as well be a bit of plastic.'
 


'McDonalds require that their "fresh lettuce leaf" is treated with twelve different chemicals just to keep it the right colour at the right crispness for the right length of time. It might as well be a bit of plastic.'

Sauce?
 




Cheeky Monkey

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Second sentence below for their sauces Norman:

Several salads have either cilantro lime glaze or orange glaze added. Along with many of McDonald’s sauces, both the cilantro lime glaze and the orange glaze contain propylene glycol alginate. While propylene glycol is considered “GRAS” for human consumption, it is not legal for use in cat food because the safety hasn’t been proven yet [10]. Propylene glycol is also used “As the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles” [10].
The chili lime tortilla strips that are included in the southwest salads have several ingredients used to hide MSG. They also contain two ingredients that advertise the presence of MSG: disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate.

The chicken has sodium phosphates (of an unspecified variety). It could be trisodium phosphate (a cleanser), monosodium phosphate (a laxative) or disodium hydrogen phosphate [11]. Why would McDonald’s add sodium phosphates (a foaming agent), and dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent in their crispy chicken breast fillets? It isn’t dishwasher detergent.
The other point to remember is that all chicken is raised with genetically modified grains, hormones, steroids, antibiotics, arsenic, herbicides and pesticides. After slaughtering, they pump the chicken up with a solution of High fructose Corn Syrup, MSG, salt and water.
 


Prince Monolulu

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Hope they remembered to turn him.

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RIP
 


McTavish

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Nov 5, 2014
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98! I bet the guy who invented the wheatgrass and broccoli smoothie doesn't live nearly so long!

#BigMacsaregoodforyou
Almost...

"James F. Fixx, who spurred the jogging craze with his best-selling books about running and preached the gospel that active people live longer, died of a heart attack while on a solitary jog in Vermont. He was 52 years old."
 




Stat Brother

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Who else was surprised the Whopper predates Big Mac's by 10 years?
 





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