The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, August 21, 19867B
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o you went and did it. You
.copped out and went to
McDonald's. Bored, vou sit
down and read the stupid little tray
liner, learning everything about the
Ronald McDonald houses. Then
vou notice the sign out front.
"Over 55 billion served."
That's a lot of hamburgers.
No. that's a hell of a lot of
hamburgers. There's 1 2 zeros after
that 55.
Armed with info from the physics
class you bombed last semester, you
start making some computations.
Suppose, for the sake of science, each
person bought only one regular
hamburger. Further suppose that
each hamburger is 3 inches in
diameter and three-eighths of an inch
thick.
B Laid end-to-end, they would
stretch more than 3,125,000 miles.
Positioned at the earth's equator,
they'd make a wall about 4 feet tall;
intercontinental navigation would be
impossible.
B Set side by side, the patties
would cover 4,993,561,524 square
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feet (but then again, who has square
feet?) Needless to say, you could
cover the earth quite a few times with
that. Thank your favorite deity for
little microbes that recycle our waste.
Stacked, they'd make a tower
325,521 miles tall; enough to reach
to the moon and a third of the way
back. Remember, these Figures are
just for the meat not the buns,
pickles and whatever else goes into
those things.
B Each burger costs 59 cents at
today's prices (not including tax).
Ray Kroc and his heirs have made
more than $32 billion in the 30-odd
yeaTS since Micky D's beginning,y"u5
from the burgers. But that's only
about a sixth of one year's $200
billion national deficit.
You begin to wonder how many
thousands of gallons of condiments
were used on the 55 billion burgers.
The manager of the local McD's tells
you that the exact amounts of
ketchup, mustard, onions and spe
cial sauce on their burgers are a trade
secret. Another McD's manager
confirms that "a squirt" is put on
each patty, but declines to say how
much of an ounce "a squirt" is. So
it goes.
You get the idea. You don't even
want to think about how many
millions of cows died for the patties
or how many tomatoes were left
orphans by McDonald's for those
little packets of ketchup.
But there's another big question.
Our planet (Earth, remember?) was.
able to digest all the refuse McD's1
put out. That includes paper pro
ducts, styrofoam, plastic trays, giant
aluminum cans of special sauce and
plastic trash bags.
And McD's isn't the only trash
making game in town. You think
about the other industrial firms and
their refuse, and how much stuff was
thrown out of your dorm since
everyone moved in.
That, as you thought before, is a
hell of a lot of hamburgers.
Grant Parsons is a senior journalism
major and University Editor of the
Daily Tar Heel. He would like to
thank John Amidon, without whom
these mad ravings would not have
been possible.
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