Lose It For Ever – Dave Elger

Good article here on America’s demand for bigger, fatter burgers.

“What people say they want and what they do don’t match up,” says Darren Tristano, an executive vice president at Technomic, a food-industry research and consulting firm. “If they say, ‘I’m gonna order more salads,’ they’re going to order more french fries.”

Wendy’s spokesman Denny Lynch says research shows that customers had an unslakable yearning for more bacon. “Well, if they like two strips of bacon, would they like three? And if they like three, how about six? And that’s where the Baconator came from,” he says

note: The Baconator has 1,920 mg of sodium, 830 calories, and 51 grams of fat.

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