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quarter-pounder

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quarter-pounder

trademark A hamburger served at McDonald's fast food restaurants that weighs roughly four ounces (a quarter of a pound) before it is cooked. What are you gonna order at McDonald's? I'm getting a quarter-pounder and fries.
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Hard-to-swallow guidance tells us we can help save the world by swapping our quarter-pounders for quarter-ouncers.
Greene had to quit the quarter-pounders when the promising 400m hurdler started to take the quarter-of-a-mile event seriously three years ago.
Instead of a quarter-pounder and fries, he discovered more than pounds 8,000 in cash.
Shortly thereafter, McDonalds began an aggressive Mexican TV campaign starring soccer goalie Jorge Campos, announcing "La nueva hamburguesa mexicana" ("The new Mexican hamburger")--a quarter-pounder sporting a dollop of guacamole.
ONE of the most potentially dangerous foods we can eat is the deep-frozen "jumbo-burger" or quarter-pounder. I believe it should be banned by law, writes Professor Richard Lacey.
Some of this happens in a field, some in the quarter-pounder that is Gretel's head.
Make a quarter-pounder out of it and you dispatch a quarter of a day's "bad" fat to the Interstate feeding your heart.
Available in two varieties -- char grilled and marinated whole chicken breast and quarter-pounder beef burger with cheese -- both come in a sesame seed bun and are ready to eat after seconds in the microwave.
Or that you won't be sold that quarter-pounder and onions unless you've got a true purchase on the links turf?
A quarter-pounder burger with cheese was 52 per cent higher.
If you don't know a quarterback from a quarter-pounder, don't worry, because the game footage is all just fancy slow-mos, whizzy editing and bone-crunching sound effects anyway.
Arby's Grilled Chicken Deluxe and Jack-in-the-Box's Grilled Chicken Fillet still fall in the Quarter-Pounder range when it comes to fat and sodium.
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SINNER: Bird's Eye quarter-pounder beefburger (minus the bun) - 220 calories.
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