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“Third pounder” is also a bad name. “Quarter pounder” has a pleasing rhythm and rhyme to it; “third pounder” doesn’t. “Third” is also easily scanned as “first,
by isamuel 5y ago
“Third pounder” is also a bad name. “Quarter pounder” has a pleasing rhythm and rhyme to it; “third pounder” doesn’t. “Third” is also easily scanned as “first, second, third,” which “quarter” is not.
Should have called it the “pebble pounder” (0.02 stone—sure, it doesn’t make sense really, but it sounds nice, doesn’t it?) Or the “fifteen’r” (150 grams is about a third of a pound).
- thom 5y agoWould "Bigger-Burger" have been too on the nose?
- Chris2048 5y agoplus pounder?
- SamBam 5y ago"Monster burger," "Megaburger," anything at all, really. Nothing's too on the nose in a country that happily ate large pieces of fried chicken in place of the bread in the "Double Down" sandwich. I agree with GP that "Third pounder" was a terrible name.
- mhb 5y agoHundred and fifty gramer.
- smolder 5y agoI think this is probably the best of the alternatives proposed in these comments.
- aclissold 5y ago“Quarter” has a nice big plosive at the beginning, which really gives it an impact. The “th” in third pounder makes it sound kind of weak in comparison. Bigger Burger is great! Aliterates, rhyming, and TWO plosives!
- m12k 5y ago"Quarter pounder" sounds like something eaten by a quarterback. "Third pounder" sounds like something eaten by the guy that always comes in third place.
- tokai 5y ago>sounds like something eaten by a quarterback More like the quarterbacks boyfriend.
- eigengrau5150 5y agoThis doesn't deserve the downvotes. Too many nerds taking themselves and the internet too damn seriously, I guess.
- pitspotter2 5y ago>always comes in third place. Yes. 'Third' means 1/3 but also place number three. Whereas 'quarter' means 1/4 but not 'forth'.
- dylan604 5y agoForth is not a number, so why would quater or 1/4 ever mean 'forth'? Fourth is probably the word you're looking for.
- pitspotter2 5y agoHey, you're correct. I meant 'fourth'. I also have problems with the word versions of 12th and 40th! By the way, the prefix 'quater-' means multiply by four.
- dylan604 5y agoquarter means divide by 4. quadruple means to multiply by 4.
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- bserge 5y agoQuarter double pounder, Triple pounder?
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- solatic 5y ago"pebble" sounds small to the American ear. More likely their product teams would have done better with a name that didn't refer to the portion size.
- geoduck14 5y ago>More likely their product teams would have done better with a name that didn't refer to the portion size. I propose: The PILE OF MEAT burger The BIG PILE OF MEAT burger The REALLY BIG PILE OF MEAT burger
- OneEyedRobot 5y agoThe GIANT PILE OF CHEAP-ASS MEAT BURGER
- AniseAbyss 5y agoUch I'm not a vegetarian or some health freak but the amount of meat they put in some dishes... It just completely overwhelms the taste. And at the risk of sounding like an eco warrior terrorist I think meat is too cheap if you can put an entire sausage on a €7 pizza. There is an environmental cost that isn't priced in- and a health cost too.
- peanut_worm 5y agoWould you like another EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES
- kthejoker2 5y agoYou laugh, but Texas already has Big Gas Burger (get it?), and yeah, it's 1/3 pound.
- nemo44x 5y agoI think it was the motivation behind the "Thick Burger" from Carls Jr.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoTotally agree with the approach. Here, but with fewer letters. BURGER FAT BURGER BIG FAT BURGER GINORMOUSLYUGE BIG FAT BURGER (To encourage association of more letters more meat)
- tejohnso 5y agoI read it as the third in the series of "pounder" burgers, which just left me completely confused. I kept trying to recall what the first two "pounder" burgers were, which got in the way of thinking of it as a fraction. I would have preferred "quarter and twelfth", advertised with a "I'll take an extra twelfth!" catch phrase :)
- nanis 5y agoI hadn't heard the phrase "quarter pounder" before I came to the U.S. ... Heck we'd had McDonalds for a only a few years. I think there may have been at most a handful of locations through most of that time. So, one night, we go to McDonalds and I see "quarter pounder" on the menu. It just sounds big ... waaaaayyy bigger than 113 grams (I have no problems converting among different units). But, subconsciously, I had expected something that would take some effort to eat. I don't think I've had another one in the intervening decades.
- m_mueller 5y agostrange, I find the "Royale" here still the best on their menu if it wasn't for the no-gluten options I nowadays prefer for digestive reasons. very glad they have those in Switzerland btw., their burger quality here is remarkably consistent and decent IMO.
- nielsbot 5y ago“The Royale with Cheese”
- jallen_dot_dev 5y agoYou're suggesting they should have introduced metric units (grams) to an American audience or assume they'd recognize stone as a measure of weight?
- ahallock 5y agoAgree. Third pounder does not exactly roll off the tongue.
- P_I_Staker 5y ago"Turd pounder"