I grew up in America and I can confirm, Americans are very dumb.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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We can't afford bigger burgers now anyway, the price of beef is insane. And when bigger burgers are desired, they'll sell "double quarter pounders". Not that Americans generally need bigger burgers anyway, but that's a different topic.
the price of beef is insane
Good
"Uh a 151.197 grammer with cheese."
The funny thing is McDonald's also tried 1/3 lb burgers later on, and also failed.
It's probably also why they don't advertise a Big Mac is 1/5 pound of beef, because it would make the Quarter pounder lose interest I assume.
They are actually 1/10 lol. I think that's why, they don't want ppl to know how tiny those patties are. I add two patties to bring it up to 4 total at 4/10 lb, puts it 1 patty shy of a double quarter pounder.
The patties are 1/10th, yeah. I meant there are 2 of them on the sandwich. Your math checks out, as you added 2 to get to 2/5ths.
I've just had a radical idea to solve obesity in America
Do Americans need bigger burgers?
Yes
Fair question. ☝️
I hear this type of take often but I'm skeptical that it happened (originally heard it as McDonald's doing it, not A&W) and I'm skeptical that it's the reason it failed.
You could test this by setting up a food stall that sells something like this as a control.
- 6 pc for $5
- 9 pc for $5
- 12 pc for $9
Then do something similar with the burgers. See how many people inherently want more for the same price. Then switch it up so the middle one is cheaper. Switch the ordering of the lists as well. Etc.
Do I think some people just don't understand fractions and think third is less? Sure. But I think there are too many variables to say that's it alone. If someone is that bad with math, it's gonna matter if you write it as ½ ⅓ ¼ or half third quarter. Then it's gonna matter if they ask what the ⅓ means versus if the cashier asks if they want "half, third, or quarter".
All that to say, I think there are definitely some people who don't inherently want more food, even if it's the same price (and maybe even if it's cheaper) and I'm not sure how many people like that there are versus people who are bad at the math aspect. Throw in stuff about how the menu is presented and I just don't see how we can really come to this conclusion.
Shout out to the time my buddy realized it was 1¢ cheaper to get two 6 of meals than one 12 pc meal. (Basically 6 of was like $5.99 and 12 pc was like $11.99 or whatever.)
I mean, I don't know why you'd be skeptical.
A&W has a write up about it https://www.awrestaurants.com/blog/memories-history/the-truth-about-aws-third-pound-burger-and-the-major-math-mix-up/
And Snope's did an article https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/
There's plenty of blunders like this. Like when JCPenny's just gave great prices and sales dropped because if something is $50, that's too much. But 75% off from $200, well, that's a deal! We know more about the JCPenny one, because it happened in 2012 and not 1980-something
It's not like I'm gonna do research before making every comment. I was skeptical because it sounds far fetched.
1/3 equals 1/4 because in both cases you have 1.
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