$1 Double Cheeseburger in Jeopardy
Gas is $4 a gallon, it costs $9 for a movie ticket, and my electric bill for a small apartment during this blazing hot summer is over $200 per month. So I guess it should come as no surprise the $1 Double Cheeseburger at McDonald’s is in danger. The rising cost of beef and dairy is something even the fast food giant can’t overcome. In a newly posted interview with The Wall Street Journal, the president of McDonald’s said the company has plans to change their Dollar Menu by next year, and have already begun testing ways of making the burger cheaper to produce.
Some restaurants are selling it with one slice of cheese instead of two, and billing it as a “double hamburger with cheese.” Others are offering a double hamburger without cheese. — Don Thompson, president McDonald’s U.S.
Thanks to my friend — Craig Russell at 94.3 The Fox FM — for the heads up.
They should drop the second slice of cheese anyway; the cheese to beef ratio is far too high.
This is an interesting issue. I talked to a man yesterday who grows specialty beef. The gas prices actually don’t effect them as much as you think. The price of corn is what is killing him. The subsidies the government has offered for biofuels has really driven up demand (and price) for corn. The high gas doesn’t help. Problem is, chickens, pigs, cows, they all eat corn. Maybe we are going to see a lot of fish sandwich reviews in the future?
Drop the cheese and keep the meat. If you want cheese you can order it and pay a little more.
I always scrape the cheese off so a double hamburger would be better for me.
i like the jr. bacon cheeseburger from wendys a bit better. not too bummed by this… but hopefully this ‘changing of the dollar menu’ won’t be too drastic.
If it’s the price of corn that’s ‘killing them,’ hancock.tom, then perhaps they should stop feeding livestock a food that they are not meant to eat. Cows in particular suffer the wrath of being force-fed corn. A cow’s rumen is a delicately balanced system of bacteria working together and has evolved for thousands of years to successfully digest grass. Feed them corn (and all the other crap they shove down their throats) and the cows grow severely ill. That’s why our beef is so full of antibiotics. Without all of those medicines, all of our livestock would die.
The only reason they started shoving corn down the throats of livestock is, due to government subsidies, corn is incredibly cheap. Far cheaper than it should be. It is also fatty, which brings livestock up to slaughter weight more quickly than grass naturally would. The result is a low quality piece of meat. But who cares?
Perhaps these economic times will finally change this haenous practice.
A little side note as well: That’s why they’ve started all of this crap about making corn ethanol. The US has, for the past decades, sported a terrible excess of corn. Corn that is fed fertilizers and pesticides crafted from, what? Petroleum. The fuel has no future.