What are one of the craziest food stories you heard?
>>22063612is there a source on this? I’ve seen it for years and it’s starting seem like a myth
It's a myth, simply "third pounder" doesn't roll around on the tongue as nicely as "quarter pounder".Think of the last time you even said the word "third", bet it was years ago.
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I went through the Taco Bell drive thru in Madison, Wi. one time at around midnight after catching a red eye back home. The car smelled like shit after I got my food. When I reached inside the bag there was a green, bunched up wad of shitty toilet paper in it. I threw the whole thing out the window somewhere on Baldwin St.
>>22063704>Think of the last time you even said the word "third", bet it was years ago.What weird assumption is that?
>>220636123 for free. Still don't believe it.
>>22063704You have a third world education and probably don’t have a passport. There you go, cunt.
>>22063655This sort of story has been around for a while. Not sure which version of it is true, but I know McDonald’s themselves had “angus 1/3 pounders” years ago that ended up flopping. When they surveyed customers on why, the 1/4 > 1/3 answer did pop up.
>>22063655Seems more likely that "quarter pounder" just has a better ring to it. And Americans are all about the jive.
>>22063704Oops didn't read thread
>>22063612The Noid Incident>On January 30, 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid (1966–1995), a mentally ill man who believed that the "Avoid the Noid" campaign was targeted at him, entered a Domino's restaurant in Chamblee, Georgia. Armed with a .357 Magnum, Noid then held two employees hostage for over five hours.[11]>After ranting to the employees about how Domino's owner Tom Monaghan had stolen his name, Noid forced them to call the Domino's headquarters to demand $100,000 and a white limousine as a getaway car.[11] He offered to exchange a hostage for a copy of the novel The Widow's Son by Robert Anton Wilson, but reneged on this when an officer brought him the book.[11] Noid then became hungry and forced the captive employees to make him two pizzas.[11] While Noid ate the pizzas with his gun in his lap, the hostages escaped.[11] Noid surrendered to the police shortly after.[12] Two shots were fired by Noid during the incident, both of them hitting the ceiling.[13
>>22063655It came from the president of A&W. Keep in mind that A&W started long before McDonald's and for decades was the main fast food burger joint. When McDonald's swept over the country, A&W stagnated. Asked how it was that McDonald's was able to expand so rapidly while A&W shrank, the president of the company used the 1/3rd pound burger story as an excuse. Reality was that he presided over the massive decline of the company and wanted some way to deflect the blame away from himself.People love to feel better about themselves by having stories like the 'too stupid to understand 1/3' one to put them above others, which is why it caught on and is endlessly repeated. The person retelling the story gets to feel superior and raise their own profile above the anonymous 1/3rdtards without doing anything productive or insightful.
>>22063612Fake and gay.
>>22064212Thanks for the bump!
>>22064137Interesting. Are there any other endlessly repeated fast food or food myths you can deboonk? A recent one is the failure of Red Lobster because of endless shrimp. But somehow endless shrimp has returned. What's really going on there?
>>22064220>somehow endless shrimp has returned
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>>22063655This is like the navy ship vs. lighthouse radio exchange. I've seen the countries and other details changed a million times for someone's own personal convenience and it's not something that ever happened.A&W are just sore losers. It's like BK blaming Whopper sales lagging Big Mac sales because people don't understand how awesome an adjective "Whopper" is
>>22064220red lobsters owned the land their restaurants were on. private equity came in, sold the land only to lease it back. execs from private equity gave themselves huge paydays and peaced out, leaving red lobster with another major line item on their expenses
>>22064220the company that took control over red lobster also had control of an asian seafood distributor so they used red lobster to purchase seafood from that distributor at a massive markup which made them all multimilloinaires, transferring red lobster money to the thai seafood owners, thus driving the restaurant out of business with chapter 11 protection and everyone got away scot free. the amount that rich people are harvesting every corner of society for riches and enshittifying everything around us should be causing much more rage than it is
>>22063704most people hear "third" and the first thing that comes to mind is third place or third world. You hear quarter and what comes to mind? money.
>>22063612Holy shit Americans really are retarded
>>22064971That's backwards... if its more potent then less does the same job, not more.
>>22063655It was real. I was there.
>>22064220This anon >>22064646 nails the explanation. The people who got screwed were the bondholders who had given RL their money, expecting to be repaid plus interest, but who instead simply got robbed. In a just society, the judge should have thrown RL's private equity owners into prison over it, but instead he said "well that's how the law works" and cancelled the debt so that RL could continue operations.
>>22063800You could have sued them for violating multiple health codes.
>>22064971dilaudid is hamburger??? mmmm, hamburger
>>22065765it's the US, they would have sued for defamation and bought off the cops and local circuit courts to harass him
>>22064971>a second pickle has hit the Twin Burgers
