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[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I would think so. No other restaurant had problems selling 1/3lb burgers. Braums and Carls Jr sling them by the truckload. Almost all the small family restaurants here sell their burgers by 1/3lb 2/3lb sizes. And I don't exactly live in an area known for it's high intelligence. So I'm calling shenanigans.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every record that I can find says Carls Jr debut their 1/3 lb thickburger in 2002 and Braum's was founded in the 1980s.

So they were absolutely NOT contemporaries of A&W when they were marketing their 1/3 lb burgers.

I'm not really sure what people like you get from coming here and lying on the internet, but I am so fuckdamn tired of it.

[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Username checks out.

Edit: the claim in the OP is "1/3lb burger failed in america" nothing to do with the 80's. Lots of places still sell 1/3lb burgers 40 years later.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Video games also failed in America. Some even thought it would never come back into prominence, and I don't recall if it's related but the writer of the Wticher books sold rights for the game in hard cash and not percentage of profit because he thought they'd never make money as a video game.

Failed and such doesn't mean forever. Things can change or changes in advertising/quality control can restore dead markets. Now maybe this means as you said it wasn't American stupidity, but were also talking Americans who supported segregation at one time and by majority now do not. As different people grow up or even if people heard about this and learned to be less dumb, the conditions in which the original failure could have changed, making the statement true at the time.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

the claim in the OP is "1/3lb burger failed in america

It did, in the 80s, when A&W tried to sell them. I live a 30m drive from the original A&W, they have newspapers up from that time with the people bitching about it. It's a popular "fun fact" style story and has been since it happened

The practice wasnt successful until the early 2000s, a little after it had become a fun fact that became more and more widely known. I think I even remember seeing an ad for Carl's Jr that played on the fact that A&W had failed where they were succeeding and made some joke about dumb older generations or whatever to appeal to the youth

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then they aren't contemporaries of the time when A&W debut their 1/3 burger NOW ARE THEY?!

I'm not really sure what you and the above asshat's motivation is, do you think that somehow your intellectual dishonesty will make people think Americans are less stupid on average?

Frankly I don't even care and I am so fuckdamn tired of your kind.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please take a step back. You're getting worked up about a hamburger debate on the Internet.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No I am getting worked up about two people spewing provably wrong bullshit, misleading the entire thread, and getting tons of traction because of it.

We are now reddit 2016 and it's only getting worse by the hour.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're getting worked up by a hamburger debate on the Internet.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Look at my profile and google EDS (Or IED before they realized how unfortunate the parallels were) and you will see why. It's medical, not fully controllable and I've had it for more than 4 decades. Now feel free to spew all that ableism you've got all pent up.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

By now it's already been a meme for a while. That's how these people learned that the ⅓ was bigger than the ¼.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nah, if you look in any American kitchen, you'll find 1/3 cup and 1/4 cup measuring cups. They may not use them, but everyone has them, and it's painfully obvious that the 1/4 nests inside the 1/3, therefore the 1/3 is bigger. If you want to make mac 'n cheese, you use the 1/4 for the milk, which means you'll take it out of the 1/3 cup.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Americans are so bad at measurements that graduation marks don't work for them.

They need an individual container for each common measurement.

It's absurd.

Lol.

But yes, we do have graduation marks like this one, which would also clearly label the 1/4 cup and 1/3 cup parts. Whichever one you have, it's pretty intuitive that 1/3 > 1/4. I prefer the separate ones since they take up less space so they can go in a drawer instead of the cupboard (and I have 2-3 of each size), but to each their own.