Let's Eat Out! is a charmingly illustrated children's book published by Melmont Publishers, Inc. in 1965 to celebrate McDonald's 10th anniversary. You can read the whole book at And Everything Else Too. In the story, an American boy's family treats his German friend to the "American treat" of hamburgers and fries and they marvel at the American practice of mass-production. It ends with a history lesson on the hamburger's multi-cultural origins.
McDonald's established their training center Hamburger University 50 years ago in Oak Brook, Illinois. You can read up on some McDonald's and Hamburger University facts in illustrated form in this infographic from Online Colleges Source.
For the next few weeks, the burger of the moment at McDonald's in France is topped with a slice of honest-to-goodness AOC Comté cheese, along with a "sauce au Comté fondu." Promising sounding improvements for the standard McDonald's patty. And an improvement it is.
Last week our San Francisco correspondent David Kover spotted this street art by Zoltron on 18th Street between Guerrero and Dolores, at the construction site where Bi-Rite Market is building a new space for their community center, 18 Reasons. The painting has evolved since then, now with more Hamburglar and scrawls of "HIPSTER."
Last time we wrote about famous Big Mac lover Don Gorske he had eaten nearly 23,000 Big Macs in 36 years, earning him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. Three years later at the age of 57, he's on his 25,000th burger, to be eaten this afternoon at a McDonald's in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he ate his first Big Mac on May 17, 1972. "Not even a million dollars could get me to go someplace else," Don says in this video from NBC. Congratulations, Don!
The goal this week is to build a better Big Mac by taking that great concept—two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onions, all on a sesame seed bun—and fixing up everything that's wrong with it.
McDonald's in Japan has recently re-released the Mega Teriyaki Burger, a Big Mac-esque burger first released in 2007 whose patties are seasoned with teriyaki sauce. But the patties aren't regular beef patties; they're sausage patties, according to this review from The Adventures of Fatrick, who recommends that only teriyaki-lovers try this burger since "No other flavor manages to wriggle out of this doused mess." See more photos at gigazine.net.
You're in France, and you're hungry for fast food. You see the Golden Arches, and head in that direction. Then you see a similar looking restaurant across the street, whose logo has a large white Q inside a red house—that'd be Quick, in these parts, McDonald's main competitor. It's fast food, you can tell, but it's French, so surely it must be better... or is it? What do you do? On a trip to Paris, I pitted Quick and "McDo" against each other.
Illinois-based marathon runner Joe "McRunner" D'Amico completed this past Sunday's 26.2-mile Los Angeles Marathon in 29th place after eating only at McDonald's for 30 days. Over at his blog mcrunner.com he outlined his rules—he was allowed to eat non-McDonald's water, PowerGel, multivitamins, and ibuprofen— and kept a training log and food diary.
