Angst Bürgerlich

[chickenfeet]

Back in the days when I worked in the frozen food industry in the Uk the standard "beefburger" was a two ounce patty. The quarter pounder was very much the upscale Uberburger. So how come, tonight, as I look at slightly more than one pound of meat in a bowl, it looks grossly insufficient to make four burgers?

has there been some long term temporal shift in human burger perception?

Comments

[divafu.livejournal.com]

im starving, beam me up a burger, scotty!

[lilactime.livejournal.com]

Have you not seen the burger ad for Wendy's with 3 1/4 pound patties? Two seems to be the standard now. It's the Supersize Me phenomenon - our portions have gotten bigger, and so have our asses.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

One of the joys of having a PVR is that I watch pretty much no commercials.

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

The problem isn't the burger, its trying to work out with 3 1/4 pounds of fermenting meat in your intestine.

[brelson.livejournal.com]

Maybe the meat has become a lot more dense over the last ten years or so?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

That must be it. All the cattle are suffering from dense cow disease.