Why are Double Quarter Pounders not called Half Pounders?

Seriously. McDonald's could save an entire word this way.

 

Because it would highlight the fact that you're eating a half pound of ground meat.

 

cause they are lazy and want to get sued so that they will HAVE to change the name of it.

 

Indeed. We should sue them for misrepresentation. Or something.

 

Hey, what's up with cancer?

 

This is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since "The Neverending Story"!


Oh yeah, and why fly a kite when you can just...pop a pill?

 

Funny you should mention that.

Protein Predicts Pancreatic Cancer Patients' Treatment Outcome

The blood protein known as CA 19-9 has long been used as an indicator of how far pancreatic cancer has progressed in a patient.

Now, researchers from Jefferson University Hospital's Kimmel Cancer Center have found that CA 19-9 also can be used to predict how well a pancreatic cancer patient will do after a variety of treatments, from surgery to radiation to chemotherapy.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most virulent of malignancies. The National Cancer Institute estimates there will be about 37,000 cases of cancer of the pancreas in 2007 and slightly more than 33,000 deaths. One of the difficulties in fighting pancreatic cancer, experts say, is how far it advances before any symptoms appear.

Based on research by a team led Dr. Adam Berger, M.D., an assistant professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College, the lower the level of CA 19-9 in the blood of a pancreatic cancer patient, the longer the survival. Half of the 385 patients in the study with CA 19-9 levels higher than 180 U/ml lived for approximately nine months, while half of those whose levels were 180 or below lived more than twice as long, about 21 months, according to a university press release.

After following the patients for three years, the researchers found that about 30 percent of those with levels 180 or under were still alive, while virtually none of the patients with levels above 180 were. "We think that it is a very sensitive predictor of response to chemotherapy and radiation after surgery," Berger is quoted as saying in the news release.

The study's findings will be reported June 23 at the semi-annual meeting of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) in Philadelphia.

Source

 

Oh fun!

"What's a good cure for foot odor?"

Wait, this is the 'make up Valyn thread titles game,' right jaypee?

 

But what would they call it in France?

 

Who are you kidding? Even were it a half pound, it still lacks meat. The only part of that sentence thats accurate is the "ground" part.

 

'Half Pounder' would, to me at least, imply a single half pound burger, where as 'double quarter pounder' implies that there are two quarter pound burgers.

 

Click me!

 

Screw it. I'll go to Danver's and get a One-Pound Big Dan Burger. Quadruple-Bypass on a bun!

 

You win at the thread

 

The scribes of old decreed that a double quarter pounder be named thusly because in those days the term half pounder was the name given to a notoriously evil and very short gnome who caused untold hardships upon the peoples of the land, and it was thought in poor taste to name a food product after such a creature. It would be akin to a fast food establishment today naming a hamburger The Hitler Burger or the Usama Bin Burger Laden with Ketchup. Quite distasteful.

 

There was an ad in Australia with someone (a cricketer I think though I'm not sure) asking "Why don't you call it a half-pounder?" and the other guy (another cricketer) looked at him as if he was dumb.

I can't find it on youtube though, BTW what were the guy's names?

 

So inspirational that they should show this in schools.

 

A Double Royale With Cheese.

 

Furthermore, why are they labeling it based on a unit whose consistency depends on location?

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