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I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by jasonkester »

Tangentially on topic, McDonalds used to have a special once a week where they'd sell cheeseburgers for $0.35 or hamburgers for $0.25. I would, from time to time, walk into the place with fifteen dollars in my pocket (and two co-workers, as they put a limit on how many one person could buy), and walk out with a sack o' sixty neatly wrapped hamburgers.

I'd bring them back to the office, and simply start tossing them at people in their cubicles (or in the parking lot from a moving vehicle if they were unlucky enough to be walking past when I pulled in), and basically just feed the entire building.

I don't think they intended that to happen with their little loss-leader deal to get folks in the door, but it sure was fun. It caught on too. If you haven't had a sack of 20 warm burgers dumped into your lap while you weren't paying attention, you haven't lived.

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by jasonkester »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #31
ashray wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's quite unlikely that someone who orders a 1000 burgers is actually going to eat them. I can't picture myself eating 1000 of the same kind of burger .. or in the same place.. I guess most people would eat 200 burgers (I'd say at the high end..) which would come out to 5GBP per burger. Not bad for the establishment.. I can't think of any average but even 100 sounds high to me.

I just looked at the burger in question. Wow! I'd totally eat 1,000 of those. But I guess I should start caring about things like not having heart attacks, so I don't know. My heart says "yes" though.

My advice would be to come to England and eat a hamburger here before committing to a thousand of them, regardless of how good they look in the picture.

I sometimes daydream about importing the cheapest, far-end-of-the-freezer-aisle, just-barely-not-animal-feed grade hamburger patties from the US so that I could sell them here as gourmet burgers for premium prices.

The quality of the beef really is that bad here, as is the process that somehow turns it into the rubbery, filler-laden non-edible Superball of Sadness that gets passed off for burgers here.

That, along with Mexican food, is one of the main reasons I travel back to the states so frequently.

Now, if we could only get English bacon shipped over to America, that might be reason enough to move back.

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by bad_user »

asciimo wrote: post #46
Wintamute wrote: post #28

So will this guy eat 500 burgers himself? That could be at least a year and a half eating burgers for lunch. Good lord, it can't be healthy! :S

You're right. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-mu...

My grandfather ate about 8-10 eggs per day for about his whole life, because they lived on the country-side and they ate what they could produce (e.g. had hens that produced eggs). He was also drinking about 1 letter of milk daily straight from his cow and in case you never drank raw unprocessed milk, let me tell you it's freaking fat compared to what you find in store. He was also drinking about 1 letter of his own wine and a couple of shots of his own brandy per day. His favorite dish was also raw pig bacon though because of their relative poverty, this wasn't happening often, maybe once or twice per month.

He died at 99, one month from turning 100. Never had heart disease, never had cholesterol problems. He lived in an area in which all the people have similar dietary habits. In fact if you'll ever come to Romania, you'll notice that only the French eat fatter and IMHO the jury is still out on that one, because while the French use tons of butter for everything, I think we are eating more pork-based dishes (bathed in sunflower oil), more than anybody else, pork being way more popular than fish, beef or even chicken (during the holidays). You should see my favorite dishes ;-)

The above is just an anecdote of course, but do take studies with a grain of salt, especially studies on nutrition. Such studies cannot control or even estimate all the variables involved (short of keeping subjects in a cage locked away for 20 years) and cannot be conducted doubly-blind. We are a long way off to understanding anything about the impact of our diet.

Also, it should make you wonder why in the world your medics declared war on fat since 1960, while they ignored the biggest elephant in the room, which is our increased intake of sugar.

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by caseysoftware »

andrewmcdonough wrote: post #40
shasta wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you see the picture of the burger in the article? All this guy has to do is declare that remaining prepaid burgers are non-transferable upon death, and he'll only ever have to make a few hundred per buyer.

Actually the burger in the picture is healthier than you'd think. It's very good quality beef. I have a balanced diet and exercise lots. I also subscribe to the 'fat is not the enemy' school of thought. Maybe I'll take some before and after photos to prove it!

I'm coming to London for the first time in a decade this coming week. I'd love to have a burger with the guy who decided to do this.

If you're interested, drop me a note: keith @ op3nvoice.com

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by ivanca »

bad_user wrote: post #53
asciimo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-mu...

My grandfather ate about 8-10 eggs per day for about his whole life, because they lived on the country-side and they ate what they could produce (e.g. had hens that produced eggs). He was also drinking about 1 letter of milk daily straight from his cow and in case you never drank raw unprocessed milk, let me tell you it's freaking fat compared to what you find in store. He was also drinking about 1 letter of his own…

Winston Churchill died at 89, doesn't mean smoking 2 packs every day is healthy.

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by bad_user »

ivanca wrote: post #55
bad_user wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My grandfather ate about 8-10 eggs per day for about his whole life, because they lived on the country-side and they ate what they could produce (e.g. had hens that produced eggs). He was also drinking about 1 letter of milk daily straight from his cow and in case you never drank raw unprocessed milk, let me tell you it's freaking fat compared to what you find in store. He was also drinking about 1 letter of his own…

Winston Churchill died at 89, doesn't mean smoking 2 packs every day is healthy.

I'm talking about this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by bluedino »

Wintamute wrote: post #28

So will this guy eat 500 burgers himself? That could be at least a year and a half eating burgers for lunch. Good lord, it can't be healthy! :S

A lof of people in the USA eat McDonald's for lunch (or some other place) every. single. day.

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by alanbyrne »

jasonkester wrote: post #52
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just looked at the burger in question. Wow! I'd totally eat 1,000 of those. But I guess I should start caring about things like not having heart attacks, so I don't know. My heart says "yes" though.

My advice would be to come to England and eat a hamburger here before committing to a thousand of them, regardless of how good they look in the picture. I sometimes daydream about importing the cheapest, far-end-of-the-freezer-aisle, just-barely-not-animal-feed grade hamburger patties from the US so that I could sell them here as gourmet burgers for premium prices. The quality of the beef really is that bad here, as…

I can't speak for the rest of England, but there are some amazing burgers in London.

A good starting point: http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/burgeracs-20-...

100% agree about Mexican food though!

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by mst »

bad_user wrote: post #53
asciimo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-mu...

My grandfather ate about 8-10 eggs per day for about his whole life, because they lived on the country-side and they ate what they could produce (e.g. had hens that produced eggs). He was also drinking about 1 letter of milk daily straight from his cow and in case you never drank raw unprocessed milk, let me tell you it's freaking fat compared to what you find in store. He was also drinking about 1 letter of his own…

> Also, it should make you wonder why in the world your medics declared war on fat since 1960, while they ignored the biggest elephant in the room, which is our increased intake of sugar.

Probably one of: easier to sell, expected higher status increase, balance of lobbying funds.

I'd expect those to be more likely the real reasons for it even if they'd declared war on sugar instead, to be honest.

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