Big Mac

The Big Mac, formerly referred to in Germany as a Big Mac, is a double-decker variant of the hamburger that may be produced and sold under that name only at McDonald's.

History of the Big Mac

It was first introduced to the American market in 1968, in response to the advertising initiative of the hamburger chain Burger King "The bigger the burger, the better the burger " for their Whopper. Developed had him a year before Jim Delligatti, the operator of McDonald's restaurants in Uniontown in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

The template for the Big Mac provides obviously the Big Boy, which was, according to an anecdote in 1936 by Bob Wian developed in his one- man show " Bob 's Pantry " in Glendale, California for fun. In the following period was due to the success of the Big Boy stand to a restaurant and later to a restaurant chain called Bob's Big Boy.

The great Hamburger Royal came in 1971 in the U.S. Quarter Pounder on the market; it 's contrary to Big Mac story, but wider. A similar hamburger fast-food chain Burger King, also with two ground meat patties, called Big King and came to the sale until some time later.

Preparation

A Big Mac is made from the bottom up of the following components:

  • Bottom of the hamburger bun or soft or Bun
  • Special Big Mac sauce (10 milliliters)
  • Onions from rehydrated, prepared by freeze-drying onion flakes (total 3.5 grams )
  • Iceberg lettuce into strips (12.5 grams)
  • Cheddar cheese slice
  • Called a slice of roast beef, Beef Patty (45 grams before preparation)
  • Middle part of the bun
  • Sauce (as above)
  • Diced onions (as above)
  • Iceberg lettuce (as above)
  • Two slices of pickles (if there are small slices, three pieces)
  • Fried ground beef (as above)
  • , Sprinkled with sesame seed bun cover of Hamburg

The sauce is squeezed out by hand from calibrated cartridges. This is to ensure that every Big Mac contains the same amount. The diced onions, pickles slices and minced meat are identical with those of the company's own hamburger or cheeseburger. The salad is identical to the salad Hamburger Royal TS.

For the manufacturing of a special Big Mac toaster has been designed the toasting both top and bottom side and the intermediate plate on both sides. It will be built in parallel and then packed in cardboard boxes than four Big Macs.

Nutritional Information

According to the Nutrition Table of McDonald's, created under the Federal Food key result for a Big Mac of 219 grams of the following values: 2073 kJ/495 kcal, 25 g fat, 40 g carbohydrates, 27 g protein.

Variants

As a variant of the Big Mac is offered in some countries, the Double Big Mac with four ( instead of two) 45.4 -gram pieces of meat and an additional Cheese Slice. It is available in Canada and Australia, among others; a certain time, he was also available in the United States.

Big Mac index

Due to the worldwide popularity of the Big Mac, the British business magazine The Economist published a year the so-called Big Mac Index, an index of the cost of living, based on the price of the Big Mac in different countries. This one made two characteristic properties for fast food advantage: good availability in many places and everywhere a nearly identical product, which is produced mostly from local raw materials, thus reducing the impact of world prices on this index.

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