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The Quarter Pounder is a brand of hamburger introduced in 1971 by a Fremont, California franchisee of international fast food chain McDonald's and extended nationwide in 1973. . Its name refers to the beef patty having a precooked weight of approximately one quarter of a pound, originally portioned as four ounces (113.4 g) but increased to 4.25 oz (120 g) in 2015
In weight it was equal to 32 pounds (14.7 kg) in Portugal and 25 pounds (11.5 kg) in Spain. The unit is still used in Portugal and Spain by cork merchants and pig farmers. Latin America
The modern statutory definition of Imperial units, the Weights and Measures Act 1985 as amended by The Units of Measurement Regulations 1994, defines the quarter as a unit of mass equal to 28 pounds. [6] In measures of weight and mass at the time of Magna Carta, the quarter was 1 ⁄ 4 ton or (originally 500 pounds).
McDonald’s to resume selling Quarter Pounders in all restaurants after beef patties in Colorado test negative for E. coli Michelle Watson and Nadia Kounang, CNN October 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
For example, some animal unit calculations used in Texas assume that daily forage dry matter consumption by a 90-pound nanny Spanish goat is 4.5 percent of body weight. Thus the nanny:cow ratio of daily dry matter consumption is estimated at 4.5:26, or about 0.16. This yields the estimate that such a nanny is equivalent to about 0.16 animal ...
The company added that it had instructed its beef suppliers to produce a fresh supply of Quarter Pounder beef for restaurants. Illnesses reach 75 stricken, expected to grow.
But that cow was a mere appetizer before the auction of this year’s starlet, Donna, and three of her clones. The final sale price put her total value at 15.5 million reais ($3 million).
The 1772 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica defined the stone: [12]. STONE also denotes a certain quantity or weight of some commodities. A stone of beef, in London, is the quantity of eight pounds; in Hertfordshire, twelve pounds; in Scotland sixteen pounds.