McDonald's Mac Snack Wrap: A Big Mac Inside a Flour Tortilla
This week McDonald's launched the Mac Snack Wrap in all of the chain's 1,400 outlets in Canada. It's just like the standard Big Mac, but instead all of the ingredients are stuffed inside a warm flour tortilla. It's a test run, and will be available through May 18th. Lucky Canadians! (No, this isn't a user-created [...]
Bacon Double Cheeseburger Tattoo
Photograph by EvilLittleBlue
This is by far the most realistic cheeseburger tattoo we've come across thus far — just take a look at those sesame seeds! We love that it lacks all condiments and stays true to the whole "meat, cheese, more meat, bacon thing." Kind of reminds us of Wendy's Baconator.
In-N-Out Burger by Stacy Perman: Doing Business Animal-Style [book review]
Photograph by markus941
The thing that I found most intriguing about Stacy Perman's intensively researched and heavily footnoted book In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules (out in April, preorder on Amazon), is buried in the acknowledgments at the back of the book. Somewhere between expressions of gratitude to [...]
CT Scans of Food at Radiology Art
CT scan of a McDonald's Big Mac sandwich.
The website Radiology Art uses a GE CT scanner to take three-dimensional scans of everyday objects, going so far as offering Quicktime movies of the object rotating 360 degrees. They describe it as "a project dedicated to the deeper visualization of various objects that hold unique cultural importance [...]
Saturday Night Live: I'm on a Boat Digital Short (uncensored) [video, SNL]
Last night, Saturday Night Live aired the latest digital short by the Lonely Island, "I'm on a Boat," where Andy Samberg finds a prize in a cereal box for a free boat ride for three. Logically, he takes Akiva Schaffer and T-Pain. And they cook hamburgers: "I got my swim trunks / and my flippy-floppies [...]
The Fifth Third Burger
The Grand Rapids Press writes about the The Fifth Third Burger: five-thirds of a pound of beef, dressed with sliced Spam, sausage gravy, fried eggs, and a gigantic pickle. Introduced at a private food fair as a possible dish to be served at the concession stands at Fifth Third Ballpark, in Comstock Park, MI, home [...]
Saturday Night Live's Whopper Virgins Parody [video, SNL]
Last night's Saturday Night Live, with Neil Patrick Harris, featured a parody of the Burger King Whopper Virgins, where everything just went wrong. Just like in the commercial, they ask: "What happens when you take Eastern European farmers, who have never eaten a burger, and ask them to compare a Whopper vs a Big Mac, [...]
$2.99 Jumbo Deal at Jack in the Box
Oh, these troubled economic times. Jack in the Box is rolling out a $2.99 Jumbo Deal featuring a Jumbo Jack hamburger, two tacos, and a small order of fries. The deal eschews the commonly-added soft drink and clocks in at an impressive 1260 calories (we checked).
Funny that the company in their press release said: "Between [...]
