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Mouthwatering perfection starts with two sear-sizzled 100% pure Halal beef patties and Big Mac® sauce, sandwiched between a sesame seed bun. American cheese, shredded lettuce, onions and pickles top it off. McDonald's is catering for Big Mac fans with varying appetites in its newest product launch, as the fast-food chain adds a Double Big Mac and a Little Mac to its menus for a limited time.

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The Big Mac has been a McDonald's menu staple for years. It has two beef patties on three sesame-seed buns with American, cheese, diced onions, pickles, iceberg lettuce and McDonald's special.
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The Big Mac. It’s a sandwich so synonymous with McDonald’s that it’s hard to believe it wasn’t on the original restaurant's menu. But it’s even harder to believe that McDonald’s considered calling it anything other than a “Big Mac.”

The idea for the Big Mac — as we call it today — was originally conceived in the mid-1960s by McDonald’s franchisee Jim Delligatti. In 1957, Delligatti opened the first of his many McDonald’s franchises in the Pittsburgh area, but by 1965, he was looking for fresh ideas to keep his menu from getting stale. He settled on a double-decker hamburger, having taken inspiration from other fast-food restaurants that were offering similar items.

“This wasn’t like discovering the lightbulb,” Delligatti once remarked to the Los Angeles Times. “The bulb was already there. All I did was screw it in the socket.” (According to multiplesources, Delligatti had previously managed a California location of Bob’s Big Boy before opening his first McDonald's restaurant — and Bob's Big Boy's signature item is a “double-deck” hamburger with signature sauce and a three-piece bun.)

It's hard to believe McDonald's considered naming its big burger anything other than a 'Big Mac.' (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images) J and j rant continued.

After putting it on the menu in 1967, Delligatti realized he was on to something — and so did McDonald’s corporate, which wanted to take Delligatti’s double-decker burger nationwide in 1968.

There was just one issue: They hadn’t settled on a catchy name. Early on, the top contender was “The Blue Ribbon Burger,” but the ad executives with McDonald’s were still entertaining other ideas.

Enter Esther Glickstein Rose.

Rose, a 21-year-old secretary working in the McDonald’s advertising department, suggested the name “Big Mac,” but it wasn’t an immediate hit with her bosses. In fact, Rose told the Associated Press in 1985 that everyone laughed at her idea. But it proved to be the best of the bunch, and McDonald’s debuted the Big Mac nationwide in 1968.

An early ad for the McDonald's Big Mac touted it as a 'big new super sandwich.'<br> (McDonald's)

Unfortunately, for the next 17 years, McDonald’s never officially credited Rose with naming quite possibly the most famous sandwich of all time, so she embarked on a campaign to get some recognition. Finally, in 1985, McDonald’s sent her a plaque, officially recognizing her as the brains behind the Big Mac’s name.

Rose was happy to finally have proof, if not any kind of payment, she told the Associated Press at the time.

″It’s more other people who think I should get paid. But I just laugh it off,” she said. “I’m just thrilled with this.”

Even today, however, some McDonald's promotional materials still credit Delligatti with naming the sandwich — including this fact-sheet the company released upon the sandwich's 50th anniversary — despite a McDonald's lawyer admitting in 1985 that Rose 'did play a role in naming the sandwich.'

Posted October 6th, 2011 | 2:38pm by Chefprotoss

Nostalgia… it’s awesome, right? I’m a huge collector of all things “cool” from when I was a kid. Whether it is an old NES game or the first season of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on DVD, I want it. After seeing Ryan’s review of the Quarter Pounder with Cheese from McDonald’s, I was inspired to review one of my childhood favorites; the one and only Big Mac.No description is necessary for this bad boy. Just hum the stupid jingle to yourself if you’ve forgotten the contents of this old school masterpiece. “Two all beef patties yada yada…”. But McDonald’s describes the Big Mac like this:

Maybe it’s the double layer of sear-sizzled 100% pure beef mingled with the sauce and melty cheese, the snap of the onion and the tart crunch of pickle. Or maybe it’s just that it’s tall. Either way, you so want one.

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There’s about two ounces of beef on the Big Mac, the onions are dehydrated, the main ingredient is bread, there’s only one slice of cheese, and it’s way over-priced, but who cares, it’s delicious. This sandwich, and logic, do not belong together. For the same price spent on McDoubles, you could get seven patties and three and a half slices of cheese. No matter to me, I have a Mac Attack.

You could spend countless hours wondering how such a tiny sandwich is so unhealthy, but that would involve logic. We threw that “logic” out the window, right? The Big Mac is about flavor and nostalgia… and not putting too much thought into what you are ingesting.

Much of the taste in the Big Mac comes from the “special sauce”. What exactly is it you ask?

Soybean oil, pickle relish [diced pickles, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, vinegar, corn syrup, salt, calcium chloride, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate (preservative), spice extractives, polysorbate 80], distilled vinegar, water, egg yolks, high fructose corn syrup, onion powder, mustard seed, salt, spices, propylene glycol alginate, sodium benzoate (preservative), mustard bran, sugar, garlic powder, vegetable protein (hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat), caramel color, extractives of paprika, soy lecithin, turmeric (color), calcium disodium EDTA (protect flavor).

Sure, I want to hate the Big Mac, I should loathe it. It doesn’t even taste like real food. It has that weird McDonald’s flavor that does not exist in nature. I don’t care though because it feels right, and if it weren’t for the Big Mac, sites like GrubGrade might not be the same at all. That picture at the top of the site might be… a taco. That is not a world any of us should have to suffer through.

Pros: Being able to buy stuff I wanted as a child but had no money for. Nostalgia. Sesame seeds. Secret sauce. Tacos. The 80's

Cons: Logic. I guess the price but then we are using the first 'con'. Ryan for not liking 'sour pickles'. The penalty I will have to pay for dissing Ryan.

Taste: 9.50/10
Value: 2.00/10
Grubbing on-the-go: 4.00/10
Price: $3.49

Overall GrubGrade: 8.50/10

More Info:McDonalds.com
Nutrition Facts:
Big Mac
Calories - 540
Total Fat - 29 grams
Saturated Fat - 10 grams
Cholesterol - 75 milligrams
Sodium -1040 milligrams
Carbs - 45 grams
Sugars -9 grams
Dietary Fiber -3 grams
Protein - 25 grams