Japan just re-invented the wheel. MEGA MAC!

[KC//CRIMSON]

Genius or Burger blasphemy?

http://www.japanator.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mega2.jpg

McDonald's Japan limits sales of popular Mega Mac due to low stocks.

McDonald's Japan has been forced to limit sales of its new Mega Mac hamburger to counter low stocks resulting from its huge popularity.

Customers who have been unable to buy the 350 yen hamburgers due to a shortage of stocks are being handed coupons enabling them to buy them next time for 190 yen. The company had planned to sell the hamburgers until Feb. 4, but it is now planning to extend the sales period for at least one week because of their popularity.

The Mega Mac hamburger went on sale in Japan on Jan. 12. It contains four meat patties -- twice the number of a regular Big Mac. In the first four days after it went on sale, about 3.32 million of the burgers were sold, doubling the company's expectations.

Fearing that it would not be able to keep up with demand, the company began limiting the daily number of Mega Macs sold at its stores, from several dozen per day to several hundred per day, depending on the store. It is rare for the company to limit sales of a product.

Following the introduction of the measure, lines have continued to form outside some stores in the heart of Tokyo before opening time, and some restaurants in the chain say they are selling out of the burgers before noon.

Each Mega Mac contains 754 kilocalories of nutritional energy, and the popularity of the hamburger exceeded the restaurant chain's expectations.

"It's the first time that we've had a shortage of a hamburger," a company representative said. "I guess the convenience of being able to hold a decent meal in one hand has gotten the thumbs-up, especially from young men." (Mainichi)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQp3zM35k80

I say YUM!

[yermom]

i'll never understand the Japanese

[KC//CRIMSON]

This is gonna be like the razor blade wars. We're going with six all beef patties!! USA! USA! USA!

[yermom]

we need the Quadruple Royale with Cheese

[KC//CRIMSON]

and ketchup packs that hold like half a cup.

[Pricetag]

Each Mega Mac contains 754 kilocalories of nutritional energy
Is that Japanese for "grams of fat"?

There was a double Big Mac available here for a short time when the introduced the double Quarter Pounder, wasn't there?

[Tear Down This Wall]

I want that burger.

[Harry Beanbag]

That's child's play...



http://www.heartattackgrill.com/images/quadruple_bypass_burger-xl2.jpg

[Tear Down This Wall]

I want that burger, too.

[bri]

This thread is greasy delicious death. :D

[KC//CRIMSON]

That's child's play...


What do they call that? The Quadruple Bypass?

[yermom]

yeah, that place is in AZ :D

[soonerboomer93]

That's child's play...



http://www.heartattackgrill.com/images/quadruple_bypass_burger-xl2.jpg

I haven't had an american burger in way too long

that looks really freakin good right now

[yermom]

Is that Japanese for "grams of fat"?

There was a double Big Mac available here for a short time when the introduced the double Quarter Pounder, wasn't there?

now that you mention it, i kinda remember that now

kilocalories are what we are usually talking about when we talk about Calories

[KC//CRIMSON]

This thread is greasy delicious death. :D


Well, you are the real-time play-by-play man.:twinkies:

[bri]

Yeah, this thread makes me glad I retired from greasy death. ;)

[Harry Beanbag]

What do they call that? The Quadruple Bypass?


Well as a matter of fact...

You can also add a few fried eggs to that mountain of clogged arteries if you like.

[Sooner_Havok]

I think I may hurl....

[crawfish]

HA! We'll get those bastards as fat as us yet...

[Sooner_Havok]

If you eat a Japanese Mega Mac, would you just be hungry thirty minutes later

[Frozen Sooner]

McDonald's up here sells something called the McKinley Mac. It's a Big Mac made from Quarter Pounder patties.

I had one for lunch yesterday. It was glorious.

[sooneron]

I can't believe people still eat that crap at McD's.

[soonerboomer93]

dude, I would happily eat McD's right now

and I won't eat it in the states (atleast no more then a couple times a year) but you know, a double qp with cheese and some mcd's fries just sounds good

[Tulsa_Fireman]

Next on ESPN 8, "The OCHO!"

The Japanese Mega Mac eating championship finals!

And tonight, on The OCHO!

Live, from Tokyo, Japan, the cardiac bypass championship semifinals! Unclog, bypass, and stint your way to victory.

Only on... ESPN 8, "The OCHO!"

[TexasLidig8r]

Friggin Japonaise....

So, you place trade restrictions and huge import fees on American products coming into the Land of the Rising Sun.. FINE....

We'll ply your skinny arses with pounds of gastronomical DEATH!

They have the best sashimi going and they skarf down McPuke burgers in kamakazi like fashion... :rolleyes:

[KC//CRIMSON]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060704/060704_hotdogEating_vmed_12p.widec.jpg

Kobayashi say's "BRING IT!"

[silverwheels]

Gross. Maybe if it weren't a McDonald's burger, it might be tempting.

[KStatePike]

Me and a few buddies of mine were in Ensenada, Mexico during the Summer of 2004 and we noticed that on the McDonalds menu down there, so its not just a Japan thing.

[StoopTroup]

Thanks...

I want a huge cheeseburger now.

[KC//CRIMSON]

"America Strikes Back!"

Take this! Japanese Mega Mack!

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070323/070323_angusmain_hmed_12p.h2.jpg

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17757931/?GT1=9145

[KC//CRIMSON]

One last thing. This thread reminds me of a movie I saw the other night. "Fast Food Nation"

It's like "Crash" meets "Super Size Me." Lots of big names in it too.:cool:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zc_z623Wsro

[Widescreen]

That's child's play...



http://www.heartattackgrill.com/images/quadruple_bypass_burger-xl2.jpg
That looks pretty good until you get down to the "gourmet sauce". Ugh.

[LoyalFan]

That looks pretty good until you get down to the "gourmet sauce". Ugh.

I just wanna meet a girl wot can open her mouth big enough to take a bite o' dat!
Mebbe SicEm can hook me up.

LF

[85Sooner]

This is gonna be like the razor blade wars. We're going with six all beef patties!! USA! USA! USA!


special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.

Can't believe I still remember taht from being a kid 35 years ago. Jeesh marketing works.

Is that guy still out there who advertises 524-1541 I think it was tall paul.

[sooner_born_1960]

special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.

Can't believe I still remember taht from being a kid 35 years ago. Jeesh marketing works.

Is that guy still out there who advertises 524-1541 I think it was tall paul.
http://www.angelfire.com/ok5/pmi/