OT A&W failure!

[micky]

A&W failure:

But always a conceivable way around a problem.

[Jim Joyce]

Good luck to A&W, but I don't think it'll work. Americans still suck at math, especially fractions. Calling it 3/9 rather than 1/3 probably isn't going to help. Ask people if 3/9 is larger or smaller than 1/4 and watch their eyes glaze over. They'd have a better shot if we used the metric system, where they could simply say we have X grams and they only have Y grams.

[micky]

I don't know about grams. That's something the commie foreigners use, and also the elite corps of impudent snobs at Harvard and Yale, and their wanna-be imitators.

I think they are hoping the larger numerator (how about that for a word you haven't seen since 8th grade, or at most senior year), 3 instead of

1, will make people think it's 3 times as large!

(They'll just ignore the 9 because there is a limit to how much math people want at one time.)

It will be very interes ting to see if it works. If you see follow-up news, post it here and I'll do the same. There are no A&W stores around here so I can't check in person. (Hmm. There is one in W. Virginia and there two KFC stores on the closest shopping street to me. One used to be a double store, but I don't think the other half was A&W and they undid it anyhow.

I accidentally clicked on the A&W menu and it doesn't h ave the 3/9th burger yet, but the Papa burger doesn't even say how much meat is in it:

The classic. Two juicy 100% U.S. Beef patties with two slices of melted American cheese. Finished off with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles and our classic A&W Papa Sauce all on a lightly toasted bun? it doesn?t get better than this. nutrition 640calories 35gtotal fat 42gcarbs 38gprotein diet or allergens Egg, Milk/Dairy, Wheat, Gluten

[Dean Hoffman]

1/4 pounder is 113 grams. 3/9 burger is 151 grams. The difference is 38 grams. Any ditty or quote about 38?

[Ed Pawlowski]

A & W is a rip off. Everyone know 4 is bigger that 3 so the 1/3 is not a big as the 1/4 quarter pounder.

Now you confusing the issue with grams. Grams is my mother's mother, a little old lady. Grams is smaller than pounds too. I don't want no wimpy burger in grams.

[micky]

Maybe they could call it 151,000 miligrams.

How about, 38 bottles of beer on the wall, 38 bottles of beer...

or

Yes, grams are very little. I don't care how many there are, it couldn't be much.

LOL

[Ralph Mowery]

Like the farmer friend that was not selling some produce at 25 cents so he marked it out and put in 3/$1 and sold out .

Everyone knows when you mark out a price and put on another it is cheaper.

[Clare Snyder]

The 1/4 pounder doesn't mean much anyway because that is the weight before cooking -and a fatburger will weigh significantly less than a good lean hamburger after it is cooked. With A&W using grass fed beef (at least here in Canada) there is not as much shrinkage as in some other burgers made if corn fed beef.