McDonald's most famous hamburger, the Big Mac, has lost its father. Michael "Jim" Delligatti, once the owner of the McDonald's franchise in Uniontown (Pennsylvania, USA), created the popular burger with two beef patties back in 1967. During this time, it became one of the most recognizable American exports and a symbol of capitalism.
Hamburger Big Mac is a brand unto itself. Hamburger McDonald's is in 1967 came up with Michael “Jim” Delligatti, who died a few days ago at the age of 98. According to the testimony of his son, he is the father of the most famous McDonald's hamburger, which squeezes between toasted sesame buns two beef steaks, cheese, pickles, iceberg lettuce, onion and sauce, afforded at least several decades one per week. Even almost 50 years later it is the recipe remained unchanged.
A burger that has approx. 540 calories and 34 grams of fat, was created because Delligatti's guests wanted bigger burgers. And the Big Mac that is was born became an instant hit, so McDonald's already has it in 1968 included in its offer elsewhere. It was originally sold 45 cents each. Everything else is history. If you ask his son, Delligatti also came up with the name, but the official story says that the name in 1985 invented by 21-year-old McDonald's secretary Esther Glickstein Rose, after one of the directors asked her for a proposal in a meeting. The case regarding the name will have a judicial epilogue.
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From 1967 to the present, McDonald's has sold billions of Big Mac hamburgers. Annually, 550 million or one every 17 seconds! Bojda Delligatti, who also helped shape McDonald's breakfast menu, did not receive any commissions from the sale.
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