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Survey: More Americans know Big Mac ingredients than Ten Commandments
Catholic News Service ^ | 10-03-07 | Mark Pattison

Posted on 10/08/2007 10:42:26 AM PDT by yankeesdoodle

The vast majority of those surveyed could easily name the primary ingredients in a Big Mac: two all-beef patties (80 percent), lettuce (76 percent), sesame-seed bun (75 percent), special sauce (66 percent), pickles (62 percent) and cheese (60 percent).

By comparison, "You shall not kill" was known to fewer than six in 10 respondents. Less than half (45 percent) could recall the commandment to "Honor your father and mother."

Even those who said they go to church at least once a week had trouble naming all of the commandments. Seventy percent recalled "You shall not kill" and 69 percent remembered "You shall not steal" but the Big Mac's all-beef patties and lettuce got more recognition from the survey group (79 and 76 percent

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bible; mcdonalds; tencommandements
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There should be a 10 commandments jingle, like if the glove don't fit, you muss acquit, or some such
1 posted on 10/08/2007 10:42:28 AM PDT by yankeesdoodle
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To: yankeesdoodle

Do Big Macs have onions?


2 posted on 10/08/2007 10:46:28 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.


3 posted on 10/08/2007 10:47:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
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To: DuncanWaring

Yes they do. It’s two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun.


4 posted on 10/08/2007 10:48:21 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: yankeesdoodle

Well that proves it...Ronald McDonald is Satan... or maybe it’s that shifty Hamburgler... or Mayor McCheese.


5 posted on 10/08/2007 10:48:27 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: yankeesdoodle

If you break the first three, you are going to break the last seven.


6 posted on 10/08/2007 10:48:48 AM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: yankeesdoodle

Wait a minute. There are TEN commandment?


7 posted on 10/08/2007 10:48:50 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (What he posted.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Yes, they missed the onions.

If the group cares, they could come up with a cool jingle to help us remember the 10 commandments. Then they could spend millions on non-stop advertising.

And in the end, people would get it wrong, just like they do the Big Mac recipe.

I remember I think Jay Leno doing something where more people knew the Big Mac advertisement than the plede of allegiance, or was it the star-spangled banner? I guess I don’t remember it.... :-)


8 posted on 10/08/2007 10:49:03 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: yankeesdoodle

Well, in fairness, there are fewer Big Mac ingredients than there are commandments to remember.


9 posted on 10/08/2007 10:49:34 AM PDT by Maceman
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Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese, two pickles on a sesame seed bun?

I know that, and I haven't eaten in a McDonald's in 12 years.

10 posted on 10/08/2007 10:50:09 AM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: DuncanWaring

Only 60% of the people know that a Big Mac contains cheese?

Wow, this country is in bad shape!


11 posted on 10/08/2007 10:50:18 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: Maceman

God needs a better theme song for us to remember them, preferably one written by Barry Manilow.


12 posted on 10/08/2007 10:50:56 AM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: yankeesdoodle

Damn, you nailed it in the primary post. I can I “beat you to it” when “get set, go!” is the answer?


13 posted on 10/08/2007 10:50:59 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: CougarGA7

Yes, but Jesus recognized that people were really lazy, and so he gave them a 2-line cliff notes version:

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

And Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.


14 posted on 10/08/2007 10:51:07 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: yankeesdoodle

The 10 commandments were 2 rocks, not 2 all beef patties. Also they didn’t come on a tasty sesame seed bun, and they aren’t promoted with a catchy jingle.


15 posted on 10/08/2007 10:51:07 AM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.


16 posted on 10/08/2007 10:51:10 AM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: rhombus

WTF was up with “Grimace.” A big blue blob with a painful name.


17 posted on 10/08/2007 10:51:47 AM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“Yes, but Jesus recognized that people were really lazy, and so he gave them a 2-line cliff notes version”

Actually that comes from a Hebrew prayer that far predates Jesus.


18 posted on 10/08/2007 10:51:59 AM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: yankeesdoodle

I have a two year old. The only way she learns things well is with songs.


19 posted on 10/08/2007 10:52:35 AM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: yankeesdoodle

This proves the public education system is performing exactly as intended.


20 posted on 10/08/2007 10:52:42 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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