But the darkest question, raised by the poisonings of the past month, concerns the hamburger's standing in America.
Chunky Chinglings aside, the hamburger chain aims to increase its stores from 1, 300 to 2, 000 by 2013, writes Bloomberg.
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After some angry yelling, Affleck eventually gives in (as you're sure he always does) and forks the hamburger over.
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The standard-bearer of the hamburger, McDonald's, is bowing to local demand and is opening a meat-free restaurant in India.
The rise of the hamburger is a metaphor for the rise of America.
The hamburger has become the latest oddity to surface from Myhrvold's quixotic venture.
IR I wonder if you really meant what you said about the possible imminent death of the hamburger (Lexington, August 23rd).
Health scares about hamburgers go back to the era of the St Louis Exposition, but the hamburger has always counter-attacked.
Just like Brits embraced the hamburger, they want a U.S.-style automatic disclosure by foreign banks and tax authorities on U.K. citizens.
He took a degree in Texas, in economics and politics, and had his first taste of (the hamburger) business as a trainee at McDonald's.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Moderna Museet in Sweden, Fondazione Prada in Milan, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Inside she ordered him a Happy Meal with no mustard or ketchup on the hamburger he had a distaste, amounting almost to a horror, of condiments.
Like the immigrants themselves, the hamburger evolved in the new world.
The three Brazilian musketeers took the hamburger chain private, sold 29% of it to American billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman, then took it public again last summer.
To reach for the salad bar rather than the hamburger counter, or to turn away from merchandise in a shop window something difficult for most of us to change.
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Just as its Western cousin, the hamburger, remains incomplete without a squirt of ketchup or a dollop of relish, a vada pav lies naked without red or green chutney, or both.
"It is important that we break with the idea that growth always costs a lot of money and must be the result of expensive stimulus programs, " she told the Hamburger Abendblatt.
The makeovers by the hamburger giants come at a time when the traditional fast-food chains are seeing more competition from smaller players such as Five Guys Burgers and Smashburger that offer higher-quality food and alternatives such as Subway.
In 1986 London Greenpeace, a bunch of environmental activists (unconnected with the better-known Greenpeace), published a leaflet denouncing McDonald's, the hamburger chain, as a hazard to human health, a killer of animals, a destroyer of the environment and a mean employer.
First he led a demonstration against the offending hamburger chain and then set up the Slow Food organization - a longer lasting legacy than throwing rocks at Ronald McDonald and co - dedicated to preserving the pleasure and passion that surrounds food.
Tan also remained interested in the welfare of the "oldtimers" (employees who had started with the old hamburger restaurant in downtown Manila back in the early 70s), and still knew most of them by their first names.
The prepackaged hamburger standard, efficient, cheap fitted the mass culture that emerged after the war.
They simply wandered off into the night, chatting between themselves, headed for the nearest hamburger joint.
And all this even before considering Burger King or any of the other hamburger chains.
At the baseline are those who cook the occasional hamburger or hot dog.
What Myhrvold does have to brag about is the perfect hamburger.
Just look at the inspirations for the all-American hamburger and hot dog in the German cities of Hamburg and Frankfurt.
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