News From Barbaria: Why Was A&W's 1/3 Pound Burger Unable To Compete With MacDonald's Quarter Pounder?

May be a graphic of burger and text that says 'In the 1980s, A&W tried to compete with McDonald's S Quarter Pounder by selling a 1/3 pound burger at a lower cost. This product failed because most customers thought the quarter pound was bigger. THIS IS WHY I DON'T ARGUE ONLINE!'

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Alan Archibald

Here’s how it went down - “from the horse’s mouth!” https://awrestaurants.com/.../aw-third-pound-burger...

HG Wells made the following comment which I have always taken in deadly earnest: “Increasingly, the future of humankind is a race between education and catastrophe.”

Of course, there are these three complicating factors.

It seems that stupid people are too stupid to know that they’re stupid.

And, to paraphrase Bertrand Russell, “People would rather die than learn, and many do.”

Paraphrasing Fran Lebowitz: “For the first time in a long while, Donald Trump gave people permission to express their prejudice and racism, and they love him for it. People love to hate more than they love their personal well-being.”

And finally, to paraphrase Jimmy Kimmel: A guy goes into a restaurant and asks for a Coke. The waiter, wearing a MAGA hat says: “Are you sure? How about a glass of gasoline?”