When you order a Big Mac and fries you probably aren’t thinking about McDonald’s as a barometer of economic health.

Did you know that the Queen of England owns a McDonald’s near Buckingham Palace? That they planned to open one restaurant a day in China over a three year period from 2012 to 2015? Or that McDonald’s is the world’s 90th largest economy? This last statistic reminds me of the fact that only 39 countries have won as many Olympic medals as Michael Phelps. Take a minute to enjoy this line-up of McDonald’s trivia.

Or, by the time you came along, was it already ‘Over 1 billion served?’ ‘99 billion served?’ Remember when McDonald’s’ signs started boasting ‘1 million hamburgers sold?’ I do.

“Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.”įor anyone of my generation, the ‘soundtrack of our lives’ would surely include this jingle promoting the Big Mac, the iconic and enduring hamburger of McDonald’s, granddaddy of the American fast food industry.

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