{"id":90,"date":"2000-08-17T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2000-08-17T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=90"},"modified":"2021-05-16T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T04:25:09","slug":"thought-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2000\/08\/17\/thought-for-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/foodbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Anybody else notice McDonald&#8217;s fascination with the tomato. Through the years they&#8217;ve tried to improve on their hamburgers, but it seems the best they can do is simply add a tomato. The QLT back in the 70&#8217;s, the McDLT in the 80&#8217;s, and now the Arch Deluxe and Big Xtra in the 90&#8217;s. Just burgers with tomatoes on them. &#8220;We need to create something new and different with our burger line,&#8221; the Big Wig says. &#8220;What about\u2026um\u2026a tomato?&#8221; And the publicity department springs into action\u2026<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>March 1 2001<\/b>: I&#8217;ve been seeing ads for McDonald&#8217;s new &#8220;Big &#8216;N&#8217; Tasty&#8221; burger. Guess what &#8212; it features a tomato!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Anybody else notice McDonald&#8217;s fascination with the tomato. Through the years they&#8217;ve tried to improve on their hamburgers, but it seems the best they can do is simply add a tomato. The QLT back in the 70&#8217;s, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2000\/08\/17\/thought-for-food\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}