Posted on 11/30/2016 7:48:26 PM PST by Viking2002
THE inventor of the Big Mac has died at the age of 98.
Michael “Jim” Delligatti came up with the iconic McDonald’s burger nearly 50 years ago.
The franchise-owner from Uniontown Pennsylvania put the stacked treat on sale at one of his restaurants in 1968.
McDonald’s initially did not approve of deviating from its strict formula of simple hamburgers, cheeseburgers and milkshakes.
But the creation of a two-patty burger with lettuce, cheese, gherkins, onions and “special sauce” proved an instant hit, and was rolled out to his other 47 outlets across the US.
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So does mine.
I told him those things would kill him!
Without all the trans fats he probably would have lived to 99.
And why did he not win the Nobel Prize?
Gave up that and all fat food in my late twenties, guts just stopped digesting it.
Spicy food continues to get increasing heat, go figure. Must be the grease they cook in? Cooking for yourself has huge benefits.
“And why did he not win the Nobel Prize?”
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Which one ?
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Big Boy restaurants were selling a virtually identical sandwich from the 1930’s. Sorry, but there’s a difference between copying somebody else’s idea and inventing something.
I recall the advertisement in a local paper, probably included in the Sunday coupon inserts with a thin flexible 45 recording of the Big Mac jingle. I still have it somewhere stored with a couple of Bobby Sherman’s cardboard 45’s cut from the back of cereal boxes
When I was working (briefly) for a meat packing plant in the Bristol Indiana test kitchen where Ponderosa products were made, I was in said test kitchen when my boss walked in a group of other food creator guys.
One of them spoke. “I was there when the cheese stick was invented”
I found it quite uninspirational. I’d taken a break from college, to pursue a career in music.
Because it was essentially a Bob's Big Boy Classic Double Deck Cheeseburger - "two fresh-seasoned beef patties with American cheese, shredded lettuce and our famous Big Boy® special sauce on a sesame seed bun".
Did I say there wasn't?
Bobby Sherman? LOL!
The Hamburger was around long before the Big Mac.
Remember these words from the 1930s?
“I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!”-Wimpy
In related news, the inventor of the “Big Kale and Tofu” salad keeled over at age 32...
Meat packing versus music? Wow.
I do love music. I grew up listening to my father's classical music. It was WONderful.
I played the piano during my teens. I gave it up for BOYS/MEN in my 20's! Now I listen to ONLY to classical music and love the piano sonatas, etudes, etc.
Off the subject: I went to a Halloween party when I was 22 and there was a ouija board there. I had never seen one and DIDN'T know that it was devil-inspired.
Anyway I asked the board the NAME of the man I would marry. It spelled out MOZART. LOL. It was then that I knew that the ouija board might well have been Satan inspired. Satan and his minions can't see the future...so it was a guess. WRONG...oh, how wrong. :o)
Back to music: In my 30's I developed a LOVE of opera. I still see and listen to them. The DVDs are wonderful! And one can listen to European classical radio stations as well.
Pickles, not jerkins!
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