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Wasn’t this proven false long ago? Snopes says it’s true. 🤷

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

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Is A&W a good source on why their huge marketing stunt failed?

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It was in newspapers, you can literally search it and read scans of it right now.

Even in the 70s there were people who marveled at how stupid the angry idiots who thought 1/3 was less than 1/4 and you can go back and read those articles and see their own words.

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Ooh, I wanna read these.

I am having trouble finding scans, though. Do you have any links?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Facepalm

!facepalm@lemmy.wtf

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Anything that makes you apply your hand to your face.

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