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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #168 on: June 02, 2025, 03:35:51 PM »
BTW there's a [possibly-fictitious] story about A&W introducing a 1/3 lb burger in the early 1980s to compete with the McD's quarter pounder...

...and it didn't do well because...

1/3 > 1/4

...but idiots who can't do math thought...

1/4 > 1/3

...because 4 is bigger than 3.

They thought they were getting a smaller burger when in fact it's larger.
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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #169 on: June 02, 2025, 03:38:17 PM »
A fast-food joint should come out with MAMMOTH BURGERS, but have them be normal-sized, just using un-exctincted mammoth meat.  
They can be smaller than normal, purposely named incorrectly by size, but legally okay, because of the animal used.

It would just make sense.
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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #170 on: June 02, 2025, 03:42:30 PM »
Jumbo shrimp!

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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #171 on: June 02, 2025, 03:43:34 PM »
Jumbo shrimp burgers
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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #172 on: June 02, 2025, 04:51:03 PM »
A fast-food joint should come out with MAMMOTH BURGERS, but have them be normal-sized, just using un-exctincted mammoth meat. 
They can be smaller than normal, purposely named incorrectly by size, but legally okay, because of the animal used.

It would just make sense.

Sounds like the plot of the next Jurassic Park movie.  

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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #173 on: June 02, 2025, 06:37:25 PM »
A fast-food joint should come out with MAMMOTH BURGERS, but have them be normal-sized, just using un-exctincted mammoth meat. 
They can be smaller than normal, purposely named incorrectly by size, but legally okay, because of the animal used.

It would just make sense.
Now, I am not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt. But I work a lot with our company legal team because they have to vet anything that we publicly release, so I feel like I've got a decent sense of what makes them uncomfortable... There are areas where they call out specific things because they're legally defined. There are a LOT of other things where they ask questions just to make sure that we have the evidence / logic such that if we're questioned on a claim, we can justify why / how we came up with it. 

"Mammoth" is not a legally defined term (outside of the extinct animal, of course). You could call a burger a Mammoth Burger, or a Gargantuan Burger, or a Colossal Burger, even if it was the size of a slider, without legal fear. The market will crush you and the internet will call you stupid names if you do that, but I doubt any lawsuit would stand up in court. 

However, if you use something that is legally definable, and then don't live up to it... That's a problem. For example if a company came up with a 1/3 lb burger and it was found out that they were only using 1/4 lb of beef... Oh yeah, you're screwed. 

BTW that's why you'll typically see a little asterisk, and a footnote for the asterisk, saying it's "uncooked" weight. Because they can't perfectly predict the amount of moisture loss during cooking, so as long as they know they started with 1/3 lb (~5.3 oz) of meat, you can't sue them if you take the cooked burger patty off the bun and it only weighs 4 oz. 

In fact, the only problem with calling a burger a "Mammoth Burger" is that a nervous lawyer would force you to asterisk/footnote it saying that it isn't woolly mammoth meat :57:

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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #174 on: June 02, 2025, 06:42:04 PM »
In fact, the only problem with calling a burger a "Mammoth Burger" is that a nervous lawyer would force you to asterisk/footnote it saying that it isn't woolly mammoth meat :57:
Except in OAM's hypothetical, it actually would be woolly mammoth meat!


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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #175 on: June 02, 2025, 07:37:09 PM »
un-exctincted mammoth meat. 
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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #176 on: June 02, 2025, 07:56:12 PM »
un-exctincted mammoth meat. 

Yeah, like, Jurassic Diner.

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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #177 on: June 02, 2025, 08:20:44 PM »
I can only try to imagine the eggs
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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #178 on: June 03, 2025, 05:53:52 AM »

In fact, the only problem with calling a burger a "Mammoth Burger" is that a nervous lawyer would force you to asterisk/footnote it saying that it isn't woolly mammoth meat :57:
Laugh but there is this:
https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2023/05/07/mystery-meat-of-1951-did-an-exclusive-club-eat-a-frozen-woolly-mammoth-from-the-aleutians/

Woolly mammoth bodies are regularly discovered in the far north, partially preserved by colder climates. In 1901, zoologist Otto Herz led a team into remote Siberia, where they disassembled a mammoth frozen into a cliff above the Berezovka River. While the stench was memorable, parts of the animal appeared almost fresh, including bits of marbled flesh that Herz visually compared to beef. He wrote, “We wondered for some time whether we should not taste it, but no one would venture to take it into his mouth.” Instead, his team fed portions to their dogs, which survived and perhaps even enjoyed the experience.

Wait'll P.E.T.A. hears of that












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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #179 on: June 03, 2025, 08:06:01 AM »
I'd have tried it
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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #180 on: June 03, 2025, 09:11:32 AM »
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Re: Breakfast
« Reply #181 on: June 03, 2025, 09:24:48 AM »
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