Big Mac Is 40 – Celebrating the Birth of Supersizing
It’s hard to image, Big Mac is 40, and yet, Big Mac is such a cultural icon it is hard to fathom perhaps a time when there was no Big Mac. Big Mac has found its place alongside other iconic foods, such as Coca-Cola or Hostess Twinkies.
In all the various news stories — and there are lots of them — I found this tidbit, from an article in Forbes.com, quite amazing:
A standard Big Mac contains 540 calories, 29 grams of fat, 10 grams of saturated fat, 1,040 milligrams of sodium and 45 grams of carbohydrates. That means Americans consume about 17,582 tons of fat from Big Macs each year, roughly the weight of more than 40 fully loaded Boeing 747 passenger jets.
Sadly, a 540 calorie sandwich is no longer so huge, comparatively speaking. You can find numerous calorie counts here and there of common fast foods, such as this one from AskMen.com. Would you be shocked to know that a chicken burger from Burger King has 710 calories and 43 grams of fat?