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Template:Foodbox The Big Mac sandwich is a type of cheeseburger, a signature sandwich sold by the McDonald's chain of fast-food restaurants since 1968, made with beef patties, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onion, with a "special sauce" and a sesame seed bun. The Big Mac was invented in 1967 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania by Jim Delligatti, an alumnus of Michigan State University's School of Hospitality Business and one of McDonald's franchisees. Original names for the burger included "Aristocrat" & "Blue Ribbon Burger", but the actual name "Big Mac" was created by Esther Glickstein Rose, a then 21 year old Advertising Secretary who worked at McDonald's Corporate office in Chicago. Customer response to the Big Mac was so good that it rolled-out nationally in 1968. According to a famous advertising jingle, it consists of "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun", though the most distinctive feature is a middle layer of bread used to stabilize contents and prevent spillage.

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McDonaldland character

In addition to the McDonald's signature hamburger, Big Mac was the name of a character in McDonaldland, the fictional world created as an advertising campaign for McDonald's. Big Mac was similar to Mayor McCheese, except he was the chief of police, wearing a constable uniform and sporting a large Big Mac for a head.

Big Mac Museum

A combination McDonald's restaurant/Big Mac Museum is scheduled to open in North Huntingdon Township, Pennsylvania, in August 2007, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the invention of Big Mac.^[1]

On August 23, 2007, Jim "MJ" Delligatti, 89, opened the doors to the McDonald's Big Mac Museum Restaurant in North Huntingdon, Pa., at 9061 Route 30, where the world's largest Big Mac statue (14 feet high by 12 feet wide) statue stands. Today, it is sold in over 100 countries, with more than 550 million Big Mac sandwiches sold yearly in America, while Japan sells 150 million per year. 80 percent of McDonald's 13,700 U.S. restaurants are independently owned and operated by local franchisees.^[2]

Two all beef patties Slogan

"Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun." is a trademarked slogan first used by McDonald's in 1975. The saying has remained popular even though it is not in official use by McDonald's. Although shown here properly punctuated, it was spoken rapidly in ads as a single word, and trademarked as such.

The concept for the jingle was created by Charles Rosenberg, Creative Supervisor of the Dan Nichols team at Needham, Harper and Steers, Chicago. Originally, the ingredients appeared as a one-word heading for a McDonald's ad developed for college newspapers. The words were then set to music created by Mark Vieha, who performed the original jingle. Charlie's advertising concept was to purposely turn the ingredients into a tongue twister. The jingle first appeared in a TV commercial titled "In a Word" developed by Dan and the advertising agency team. The first run of commercials ran only a year and a half, going off the air in 1976, but its popularity remained beyond its TV life.

Many franchisees in the United States ran promotions during the original campaign that awarded a free burger to customers who could recite the slogan within a specified time (usually two or three seconds). One example of its success, was that the McDonald's operators in New York City actually ran out of Big Mac buns. Some Australian McDonald's emulated this promotion in the mid-1980s, and some Brazilian McDonald's around the same time (only offering a free glass of Coca-Cola instead), in the Portuguese version, which goes as "Dois hamburgueres, alface, queijo, molho especial, cebola e pickles num pão com gergelim"

Roy Bergold, National Advertising Manager at McDonald's, has a big hand in championing the original campaign and helping to bring it back.

In 2003, McDonald's revived the phrase. In an English-language ad from McDonald's international "i'm lovin' it" campaign, a rapper rapidly spouts off the trademark in the background music. Also in 2003, American Greetings and Carlton Cards released a Christmas ornament of a Big Mac, on which the slogan was both printed and played aloud by pulling on a string.

In the 2004 documentary Super Size Me, several women were interviewed. None of them could correctly recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but could accurately recite the slogan, to their embarrassment. In the Simpsons episode Rosebud, Homer Simpson fantasizes about the phrase.

Late comedian Mitch Hedberg referenced the slogan in a bit about what would happen when the world lost the sesame seed. "They would have to change that slogan, you know. 'Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a.....bun.'"

References

External links

Official product information for the Big Mac
Official product information for the Maharaja Mac
The Big Mac Index

[1] Pittsburghlive.com

[2] PR News Wire, McDonald's(R) Celebrates 40 Years Serving

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-==Variations==
-In some restaurants, McDonald's also offers a "Mega Mac" with four patties and an extra slice of cheese. In [[Canada]], this is commonly available in most McDonald's restaurants under the name "Double Big Mac". In the [[United Kingdom]], the "Mega Mac" was once available but has since been discontinued along with the Super-size option as a part of the healthier McDonald's menu. The "Mega Mac", however, has been for sale in [[Ireland]] since at least some time in 2004 and remains on sale. In [[Australia]], the "Mega Mac" was available for a short time in the mid-1990's. It began sale in Japan on [[January 12]], [[2007]].
-In Alaska, there is a variant of the Big Mac called the Mckinley-Mac, named after [[Mt. McKinley]]. The McKinley-Mac is made with two quarter pound patties. <ref>[http://citygirlinalaska.blogspot.com/2007_01_21_archive.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.hometowninvasion.com/towns.php?id=AK]</ref><ref>
-[http://tvinjapan.com/blog/2007/01/15/mega-mac-more-new-fast-food-on-japanese-tv/]</ref><ref>[http://www.cynical-c.com/?p=7597]</ref>
-In Europe, larger burgers and buns were used to make a "Bigger Big Mac" as part of a limited promotion to celebrate the [[2006 FIFA World Cup|World Cup 2006]], held in [[Germany]]. The burger was 40% bigger (compared to the weight of a normal Big Mac), and contained almost the same amount of saturated fat as the recommended daily allowance for an active adult male.
-The ''Big Mac'' is known worldwide and is often used as a symbol of [[United States|American]] [[capitalism]]. ''[[The Economist]]'' has used it as a reference point to determine the cost of living in different countries &mdash; the [[Big Mac Index]] &mdash; since it is so widely available and is comparable across markets. This index is sometimes referred to as ''Burgernomics'' <ref> [http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/03/11/pakko.pdf ''Burgernomics'' Article] </ref>
-In 2005, McDonald's began offering [[product placement]] rewards to [[rap music|hip hop]] artists who [[namechecking|namechecked]] the Big Mac in their music, giving US$5 to the artist for every time a song mentioning the hamburger was played on the radio. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4389751.stm]</ref> This offer quickly spawned a satirical reference from Hip Hop artist [[Mad Skillz]], who references the marketing ploy in his track "2005 Wrap Up" by stating "And I'm beefin' wit' Mickey D's man, y'all dead wrong, Talkin' 'bout payin' rappers to mention Big Macs in their song, We do rap from the heart, y'all better have some respect, Alright, Big Mac! Big Mac! Big Mac! Now where's my check?"
-When he was in the White House, U.S. President [[William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton]] said that Big Macs were his favorite snack.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
-In [[India]], where [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[Sharia|Islamic Sharia]] dietary laws prohibit Hindus from eating beef and Muslims from eating pork, the Big Mac was renamed the Maharaja Mac and was originally made with [[Lamb (food)|lamb]] instead of beef; however, along with the company's other meat items it is now made from chicken.<ref>[http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/mcds/theguardian090401.html]</ref><ref> [http://www.mcdonaldsindia.com/ourfood/nonveg/index.html]</ref>
-In [[Saudi Arabia]], the two meat patties are "''100% grilled; inspected [[Halal]]; no additives, fillers, binders, preservatives, extenders, or flavor enhancers. Only pure forequarter and flank''".<ref>[http://www.mcdonaldsarabia.com/english/ksa/nutrition_menu.asp]</ref> There are also variations in other countries, especially to the condiments.
-[[Burger King]] made a competing product called the [[Big King]] (or "Big K") burger which had similar ingredients and taste to a Big Mac.  [[Hardee's]] made a similar product called the Boss Burger complete with Boss Sauce in the mid 1990s.
-On [[19 November]] [[2006]], it was reported in [[The Herald-Sun]]<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,20780731-661,00.html Big Mac - Halal article in The Herald-Sun]</ref> that some McDonald's stores in [[Melbourne]], Australia, had introduced [[Halal]] meat for their Big Macs and some non-Muslim customers were furious they were not told their hamburger meat was [[Halal]].  McDonald's Australia were reviewing if they were going to implement this nationwide.
 ==McDonaldland character==