Wasn't sure where to put this so...
FF: An Anoka, MN man has grown the new world record pumpkin- 2,749 pounds- as entered in the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off . Just in time for Halloween- by a man from the self proclaimed "Halloween Capitol Of The World".
The pumpkin won a $30,000 prize for being the new world record. If it hadn't been the world record, the prize would have been $9/ pound or a mere $24,741.00.
That's a lot of pumpkin pies.
@Melvin
I think you are partially correct there. A few weeks ago, I read an article about, I THINK, McDonalds and doing gluten free. One of their chefs said that it can never be done in a fast food environment because of the cross-contamination.
Honestly man, if you can't eat gluten, not being able to eat fast food might be the best thing for your health.
Well, with this health setback, being forced off my feet and having 'not' slept for 50 plus hours, it gave me time to think...
All fast food places 'can do' a gluten free bun... Chick-fil-A does have a gluten free bun. But, there is time that has to be dedicated to preventing cross-contamination. That is something the fast food industry is based not based on, though. The fast food industry is based on speed and not for the dietary conscious-minded.
@Melvin---- In-N-Out makes the Protein Burger which substitutes big hunks of leafy lettuce for the bun.
Since you don't eat vegetables that might not be for you.
Since I can't do any fast food burgers anymore because the buns have gluten, I offer my two cents...
"Where's the beef?"
I just get a Double Double at In-N-Out instead. I don't care what it weighs.
The standard for fast food burgers is that the small patties for hamburgers, Big Macs, and the like are 10 patties to a pound.
The quarter pounder ,Whopper, and Jumbo Jack all use 4 patties to a pound, but that is precooked weight.
Since most of them use 70%-30% or 80%20% meat to fat ratio, you are actually getting significantly less than a quarter pound of meat...
<p>I've heard this before, but the story I heard was that it was Burger King competing with McDonalds. I've never heard of A&W restaurants, just the root beer. I looked into this more and in 2021, A&W ran an add for the 3/9th burger. LOL - www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMNqJQaf08E</p>
<p>I am skeptical of their market research. Only about half the respondents said it was because they thought 1/4 was bigger. So why did the other half not buy their burger? </p>
<p>Also, I believe McDonalds calls it a "Quarter Pounder", not a 1/4th pounder. So your comparing apples to oranges. The wording "Quarter Pounder" just sounds bigger and better than 1/3 lb burger.</p>
<p>BTW, I always assumed that the Big Mac had more beef in it and was more expensive than a Quarter Pounder, but I just checked and it has less beef and is cheaper than the Quarter Pounder and the Quarter pounder is my go-to sandwich when I get fast food. I'm not in 'math mode' and don't analyze the weights and prices of food when I'm doing fast food.</p>
Better yet, offer customers a choice of 1/5th or 1/3rd pound burgers so they can "Have it their way" ;-)
Maybe they should have leveraged that and offered 1/5 lb burgers ;-)
Fractions ..... ??
@VA
That is so funny and scary at the same time.
Not as much "Fun" as interesting and depressing. I saw this on a viral post and it appears to be legit.
In the 1980s, then-owner A. Alfred Taubman launched the "Third is the Word" campaign to promote A&W's new third-pound burgers and compete with McDonald's smaller quarter pounder. "We were aggressively marketing a one-third-pound hamburger for the same price...but despite our best efforts, including first-rate TV and radio promotional spots, they just weren't selling."
Confused why A&W's burgers weren't able to compete even though the burgers were priced the same as their competitors, Taubuman brought in a market research firm.
The firm eventually conducted a focus group to discover the truth: participants were concerned about the price of the burger. "Why should we pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as we do for a quarter-pound of meat?" they asked.
It turns out the majority of participants incorrectly believed one-third of a pound was actually smaller than a quarter of a pound.
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Nice to see people were stupid before the internet.
Rats will laugh out loud if you tickle them! .
Interesting. Though rocket boosters aren't the only things ultimately traceable to horse's asses I'm guessing.
Reminds me of last night driving on I-5 in heavy Friday traffic. Patiently inching past slow traffic in the left lane while some A hole in a black Tesla darted repeatedly in and around people on the left and right trying to get...who knows where. He eventually got boxed in next to me and right behind a horse trailer with two horse butts staring him in the face. I remember thinking that was a fitting spot for him.
“ Some people never develop beyond this stage”
That must mean you are a “shit head”
I remember that SA posted the same fun fact many years ago, and found it by searching the word "deuterostome".
Fun Fact: Humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb, the anus forms before any other opening. Which basically means at one point, you were nothing but an asshole.
Some people never develop beyond this stage.
'Lovable Asshole!'
haha most are not 'lovable'
I claim the 'stay that way' as an asshole... I've been given the term of endearment 'Lovable Asshole!' :-D
True. The biological name for the retention of juvenile features in the adult is called "neoteny."
"So we all start out as assholes."
lol unfortunately some stay that way
The first stem cells to start to differentiate in a mammalian embryo form the anus. The next are the mouth, and then the rest of the embryo develops around and inside that tube.
So we all start out as assholes.
Yeah, me too. That's a fascinating trudge through history.
LOVE IT VA!!!
Fun fact:
The solid rocket boosters on the Space Launch System are the size they are because they are old Space Shuttle Boosters. The engineers would have preferred larger, more powerful ones, but that's the size available.
Engineers at the time also would have preferred larger ones, but the boosters needed to be shipped by rail and thus were limited to the standard sizes of rail lines in the US, including tunnels and overhead obstacles.
Those are the size they are (4 ft 8.5 inches apart) because the US inherited standard gauge rail from the British, who built the first ones in North America.
And those are the size THEY are because the people who built the first rails in Britain had the same tools and parts used to make wagons. Other sizes were risky because if you ran a non-standard spacing and one wheel fell into a rut, you risked breaking a wheel.
And THOSE were the size they were because they were built to accommodate the existing ruts on European roads, which themselves were first built by the ancient Romans to accommodate their war chariots. The standard gauge we have in the US and most of the world today is the same as the wheel spacing on Roman war chariots, also standardized for the same reasons of avoiding broken wheels.
And THOSE were built to accommodate two standard sized horses side by side, hip to hip.
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So basically, the most powerful rocket boosters in the world today are the size they are - and no bigger - because of limitations introduced by the size of a Roman horse's ass more than 2,000 years ago.
