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swifty said:
why don't macdonalds call double quarter pounder "Half pounders" ??
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I would say because you aren't getting exactly 2 "quarter pounders". You still only get 1 bun cut in half so the weight wouldn't be a full half pound?

According to their nutrition chart, for weight

Quarter Pounder® with Cheese+ 7 oz (199 g)

Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese++ 9.9 oz (280 g)


It's not that much more than the original 'quarter pounder'. Do they actually put 'double' the ingredients in the burger?
 
^ But it's called a quarter pounder because the patty is supposedly a quarter of a pound in weight.

Thus 2 patties = half a pound?

So not, though.
 
yeah I went thru the drive thru (funnily enough) last night and in my stoned brilliance asked the chick for a half pounder value meal, she looked really confused and said, umm I don't think we serve those here, we only do quarter pounders and double quarter pounders...

I was too stoned to be bothered telling her what I was crapping on about...
 
anna! I think that's just what they want us to beleive. ;)
sux to be u's suggestion sounds valid. :\

Double quarter pounder would likley mean Double the burger not double the total weight, hence why it's not a half pounder, it simply doesn't weigh that much.
I really don't know but that seems to make sense to me.

I had a really good quesiton last night in my scattered state, but now I've forgotten, although as I was typing this I thought of this:

What's the difference between a State and a Territory?
 
Quarter of a pound is app. 113g, therefore Half a pound is 226 g, so that would relate entirely to the weight of the pattie, thus they should be called half pounders.

States have AFL teams, territories don't.... ;)
 
but instead of one giant half pound pattie isnt two smaller patties at the same weight much the same thing yeah? *shakes head all confused like*
 
well yeah, but it's such backward english to say something is double quarter when that's the same as half, like take sport for example, anything that's played in quarters get's a halftime break, not a double quarter time break, you know....
 
Damn, I just typed a whole lotta shit about the Quarter Pounders.

What I said in short was:
- Double Quarter Pounder sounds like more food than a Half Pounder.
- The MacMarketers liked DQP as opposed to Half Pounder. Sounds a little on the chubby side.....MacDonalds fattening? Noooo.
 
xcidium said:
What I said in short was:
- Double Quarter Pounder sounds like more food than a Half Pounder.
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That's just because we've been McTrained to McThink like that.

A McHalf-pounder sounds way more filling.... to me anyways....
 
The "quarter pound" referred to in the burger is actually the uncooked weight of the meat. By the time it gets cooked it actually weighs less than that.

Aside from the marketing side of it (more people will know what a double Quarter Pounder is by the name, rather than a "new" product called the half pounder, as shown by the dumbarse that served Swifty at the drive-thru), I can only assume that they chose to call it a double Quarter Pounder because the Quarter Pound of meat was already an established measurement, and they are just doubling it.

Xcidium, in reference to States and Territories:
The states originated as separate British colonies prior to Federation (in 1901). Their powers are protected by the Australian constitution, and Commonwealth legislation only applies to the states where permitted by the constitution. The territories, by contrast, are from a constitutional perspective directly subject to the Commonwealth government. The Australian Parliament has powers to legislate in the territories that it does not possess in the states.

Most of the territories are directly administered by the Commonwealth government, while three (the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island) administer themselves. In the self-governing territories the Australian Parliament retains the full power to legislate, and can override laws made by the territorial institutions, which it has done on rare occasion. For the purposes of Australian (and joint Australia-New Zealand) intergovernmental bodies, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are treated as a state.

Taken from Here

Interestingly, there have been several relatively recent attempts by various political groups to redefine the Northern Territory as a state. Every time this has gone to a refferendum the voting population of NT has overwhelmingly voted to stay a Territory.
 
^^ I wonder what it would of been called?

Would they of gone with the naming of some of the states like Western Australia, South Australia - meaning it would be Northern Australia. Doesn't have the same ring to it.
 
you'd get used to northen australia over time, it'd be like a half pounder, you'd get used to it.....
 
No, I don't think I could get used to a Half Pounder.... Sounds like some sort of Freaky German porn instrument. Haha.

Hmmm, I'm going to think of a load of questions for this thread.
 
As far as I know, hair still grows on tattooed skin. I just googled 'hairy tattoo' (eww, don't do it) and it seems hair still grows.
 
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