Edit: It will never cease to make me laugh that I get more genuinely serious discussion comments on my meme posts in /c/Memes than anywhere else. I’m not hating, I love it.
Edit 2: Chicago-Style deep dish pizza isn’t pizza go fuck yourself
In my boyfriend’s hometown they used to have this restaurant that served this thing called a hubcap burger
And it was indeed, wide enough to be the hubcap of a car, while being basically flat.
I mean… I’m hungry…
Where’s the address?
Southern Brazil.
Fuck
Epic road trip time, let’s do this
Well I’m on an island in the ocean in Canada and with no car. You coming to pick me up?
Alternatively, I’ve had something similar on holiday in South Tyrol.
There was a Hubcap Grill in Houston that had the best burger in a city that has a lot of great burgers.
They say they named it that because of a method of cooking a burger on a skillet, where you place a metal plate over the beef as it cooks to reduce splattering. The joke was that the burgers were so big that they needed to use a hubcap instead of a plate. And it was pretty close to true. Those burgers were massive and incredible.
They still have a few locations, including one in Hobby airport. But the original, which was a hole in the wall in downtown Houston, was the best.
A&W tried something like this. Sold a 1/3 pound burger because its bigger than the popular Quarter Pounder sold by its competition, larger than a Whopper even. It undersold and when people were asked why; it turns out people think 1/3 is less than 1/4. By the numbers, here.
Ok I’ve always hated this “advertising study”. A&W is a small fish in a big pond. Expecting their shitty third pounder to outsell a core McDonalds menu item in its prime is a Herculean task. Americans do suck at math but maybe your burger sucked a bit more.
See youve got it! There is some import to this, AW was never gonna pull Mcd and Bk #’s but the fact is that their burger undersold at their restaurants and this is the reason they eventually found. Not poor locations, which they were, not poor advertising, which was dismal. AW was well known for burgers and ice cream and may have had a chance if it wasnt run by clown college graduates.
Well, yes, but also McDonald’s did it to themselves too. About 20 years ago when I worked there (holy shit I just realized it was 20 years ago), they had the Angus 1/3 pounders. They flopped hard. Exact same reasoning, both from their corporate offices and me anecdotally, people are fucking stupid. They really thought they were getting ripped off because the quarter pounder was more meat than the 1/3 pound Angus burger according to them. I, tiny teenage me tried explaining it to them, to no avail. Fucking morons.
You want to lose hope for the human race, work in a service industry
Tbf mcds has had a lot of menu items flop because, well, because of being bad at food.
Should have sold a 1/5 pound burger then lol
Thus the title <3
Ya, made me member. Wasnt sure if the story was well known enough.
Oh I wasn’t saying that like I was complaining. Was saying that like to add onto your comment for those confused by the title. Sorry if it came off bitchy.
No, no. I added context, a comment and community to a silly meme. I love you
Love you too buddy <3
Not on the mouth, i cant stand it.
Tbf any variation of “one third of a pound” is a shit name, so all this proves is that they failed to market the product.
The real answer is likely that extra wide buns are not available from suppliers, and nowhere bakes their own bread these days. For the chains that have their own off-site bakeries and supply chains, the majority of consumers probably don’t want a much bigger burger, and those that do have big enough mouths to fit extra tall burgers, or buy 2 burgers which are easier to eat. I know if I’m extra hungry I’ll grab 2 cheeseburgers, but most of the time 1 plus the mandatory chips is enough childhood nostalgia junk for me. I wouldn’t care about a 50% wider cheeseburger.
They’re likely all getting their buns (and everything else) from Sysco anyways, so I can’t imagine different sized buns would be that hard to source.
Murica!
To be fair, I can’t think of a good name for a 3rd of a pound. “Thrice Slice” looks good, but is cumbersome to pronounce, and it sounds like a pizza.
Its amazing what a defunded education system can produce honestly.
Thanks to pizza, even Americans are familiar with the concept of wide
I’m having flashbacks to having to explain to idiots that one large pizza is way more pizza than two medium pizzas.
Except in Chicago, cause you know… Deep dish.
But how many people know that a pizza x times wider is x² times more pizza?
I want a place that makes tiny burgers
Forget the premium burger places where burgers are held together by whaling harpoons and you need to eat them deconstructed. Instead of one giant undesirable burger give me a plate with 4 regular sized burgers in exciting variations.
Give me a chicken chili burger, a double irish beef patty blue cheese burger, an italian herb lamb patty and as a chaser a smoked bison brisket with bourbon sauce.
All on one plate. I would be happy
4 burgers. 1 plate. 0 regrets.
And if you don’t like one, you have 3 more chances to forgive the cook.
I was on your side until that gibberish about Chicago style pizza.
You could also just have 2 regular sized ones or stop being such a fat ass.
Nobody said it. So be it…
A regular size, ⅓lb burger is plenty for anybody. If it was unsatisfying, use better ingredients or stronger flavours.
Because nobody is asking that or you.
Get away from me, satan. No burger tastes as good as being able to see my own junk without a mirror
I’ll take whatever gets my beard the least messy.
I want a burger with the least amount of surface area.
Ah yes, the sphere burger
How do you think it would be constructed? A meatball between two regular buns? A meatball wrapped in buns? Or, perhaps, a bun core, a meatball mantle, and a bun crust?
AKA people are idiots.
AKA Volumes are unintuitive. Always get your martinis filled to the brim. https://youtu.be/Mkn3PzdaByY
This isn’t volumes though, it’s basically asking if you’ve ever experienced a liquid affected by gravity. And somehow adults are failing this.
Never forget that the 1/3 pounder failed because people were too dumb to realize that 1/3 is bigger than 1/4…
The vast majority of people do not understand fractions. Even math teachers do not understand fractions. I quiver in horror every time a student says the words “cross multiply” because I am about to see some gruesome debasement of mathematics.
I had to remind myself exactly what the point of cross multiplying is.
…it’s essentially just a label given to a specific set of algebraic operations. That it even has a name seems stupid to me. We shouldn’t focus on memorizing specific cases like this when understanding why it works will get you there just as quickly. Heck in the case of cross multiplying, I think it works against the interests of the students’ learning. It’s a shortcut that hides the fact that you’re multiplying both sides by both denominators, when “do the same thing on both sides of the equals sign” is algebra 101.
Exactly. The problem is that they will also start “cross multiplying” any time they see a fraction. “Okay, so what do I need to do if I want to add 3/4 + 1/3?” And then they’ll say “cross multiply”?
Just say - “hey, the way to get rid of the denominators is to multiply everything by the LCD.” Then it works in all cases. No weird “one trick” that doesn’t really teach them anything.
(But, where I live - the people teaching math don’t understand math lol.)
Would never have happened if 'murica used metrics lol
Never looked at metric as (also) accommodating idiots, but I guess you’re right.
well they’re already wider.
We’d have the 200 gram’er or whatever a quarter of a pound is in grams
They’d go from a Royale with cheese to an Impérial with cheese.
In Germany, we have 125g patties. But a pound is slang for 500g and does not equate to an imperial pound.
Like 115 grams. A pound is 454g, a quarter of that is 113.5g, which would probably be rounded up.
They should’ve made a fifth-pounder and sold it for more.
Bad labeling, they should have called it the 150. People will assume that means 50% more, which is kinda close. For any legal matter they can say it refers to 150 grams, which is dead accurate.
Right up until the point that someone complains that grams are metric and not American, calling for a boycott. It makes my head hurt.
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Especially sucks for people with jaw problems who can’t open their mouth that wide. But you’re totally wrong about deep dish pizza
Pizza casserole isn’t bad but it also isn’t pizza really, it’s a casserole they pretend is pizza. It’s just like those cake doughnuts, they aren’t doughnuts, they’re batternuts, and that’s fine but Dunkin needs to quit lying to everyone.
Its pizza because it takes the form of pizza and is called pizza
Nah that’s just it, it’s pizza stuff in the form of a casserole, therefore casserole.
Unless you just mean “thick bread crust” then sure but that isn’t deep dish, real deep dish is like a bread bowl casserole.
Nah that’s just it, it’s pizza stuff in the form of a casserole
Except it’s called pizza and looks like pizza so it’s in the form of pizza.
Unless you just mean “thick bread crust” then sure but that isn’t deep dish, real deep dish is like a bread bowl casserole.
Detroit style deep dish is also deep dish, but yeah not Chicago style deep dish
Yes and “vegan cheese” is cheese? The DPRK is democratic? Chinese Checkers are from China? French Fries are from france? Pencil lead is actually Pb? Koala bears are actually bears? Star fish are fish? Just because some moron who didn’t know any better named something inappropriately doesn’t mean they’re right.
Besides it being called pizza, it actually doesn’t look much like real pizza contrary to your claims. I also would be hard pressed to call lunchables pizza “real pizza” despite the visual similarities and name, simply imitating the name or look does not a pizza make.
And eeeehhhhh “deep dish” is Chicago deep dish, detroit pan style is pan style. If you want to say “well a pan is a dish” and be pedantic so you can claim a worse style then fine but you’re doing yourself a disservice trying to equate it to the Chicago style just for the name recognition. Detroit doesn’t need to ride Chicago’s coattails, their pizza is already better, and chicago’s isn’t even pizza, as I’ve mentioned.
Burgers should neither be taller nor wider. Just give me two normal sized burgers.
Or eight. I have a large appetite. I’m only 10kg overweight. Honestly, a monster burger sounds pretty good too. I have eaten a few challenge burgers (and won) but the ones that are ten patties tall, you have to dismantle them to eat them. I support wider burgers. But every topping needs to be all across the thing or they are just serving lazy garbage.
How about you unhinge your jaw like your little sister
Learn how to cook.
I mean it worked for subway. Until they started skimping
you mean the 11" footlong?
Maybe it was cold
cold cut?
Their success came from it being specifically longer. It’s much harder to visualise a bigger surface area, like how a 10 inch pizza is bigger than two 7 inch pizzas. Subway on the other hand only stretches it in one axis, so the number goes up faster.
I don’t want long burgers, although I don’t know why. Big fan of the circle.
Size factors are tricky and the issue with fractional weights. I say we make wider Burger circles and number then in onces in the USA and grammes in the rest of the world. I want my 200 Burger and my 400 Burger wide.
Roy’s once had the bodacious bacon cheeseburger. It was pretty lit.
It was 1/3 of a pound and elongated.
The form factor is not bad it’s like the original chicken sandwich from Burger King.
It’s easy, just call it something different, like a chopped cheese.
Some poboy shops here sell a long burger. My gym buddy used to regularly eat the 8 patty footlong double. Must have been a pound of meat on it, never mind the cheese and other toppings.
