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Americans definitely love their larger 1/4 lb’ers over the smaller European 1/3 lb patties (lemmy.world)

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[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It is a reference to an ad from the 80's. A&W ran an advertisement for 1/3 lb patties for the same price as the McDonald quarter pounders. It failed, because people from the U.S. can't do simple math.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 0 points 3 hours ago

That one is an even dumber mischaracterization. If you offer a bigger, but shittier burger than McDonald's, and people don't buy it, you can't just conclude that they didn't understand your burger was bigger.