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by reshlo 515 days ago
A&W tried to make a 1/3 pound burger to compete with the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder but it failed because people thought it was smaller, because 3 is smaller than 4.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fr...
2 comments
stocknoob 514 days ago
Why’d they give up? They should have just made a 1/5 pound burger.
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astrange 514 days ago
The last time I was in Canada they were selling something inexplicably named the "Teen Burger".
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