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- <title>
- Nov. 26, 1990: Business Notes:Fast Food
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 26, 1990 The Junk Mail Explosion!
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- FAST FOOD
- McDonald's Holds the Fat
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- <body>
- <p> "Food, folks and fun," boasts a cloyingly cheerful
- McDonald's jingle. But increasingly, health advocates have been
- concerned about a different F word linked to the ubiquitous
- burger empire: fat. The average quarter-pounder packs a hefty
- 20 grams of it, along with 410 calories. But last week
- McDonald's unveiled its response to cholesterol-conscious
- carnivores--the new Lean Deluxe burger, a quarter-pounder
- that weighs in at 10 grams of fat and 310 calories.
- </p>
- <p> The Lean Deluxe owes its slimmed-down status to a special
- ingredient--water--plus an algae-based food additive. One
- thing that will not be slimmed down is the price: in
- Harrisburg, Pa., where the Lean Deluxe is being test-marketed,
- it costs 5 cents to 10 cents more than the quarter-pounder.
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- </body>
- </article>
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