Ever thought about where a Big Mac actually comes from?

Sources

Supply chain:

Patty (source: Daily Mail):

• 16,000 British and Irish farmers supply abattoirs who in turn supply the one factory in the UK that makes McDonald’s burgers
• Dawn Meats are the suppliers for more than 400m beef burgers per year for McDonald’s, who sell products produced there to the UK, Ireland, and continental Europe
• Patties are produced in a burger factory in Scunthorpe, operated by OSI Group, who first began supplying McDonald’s in the US, in the 1950. The factory in Scunthorpe produce three million burgers a day

Rest of burger: (source: McDonald’s)

• Mustard: Lancashire, UK
• Heinz Ketchup: Belgium
• One slice of cheese: Northern Ireland
• Two slices of pickle: Turkey
• 7g of chopped onion: United States
• Special sauce: UK

Facts:

• McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys, with one included in 20% of all sales
• Americans alone consume one billion pounds of beef at McDonald's in a year
• McDonald's has 761,000 employees worldwide, more than the population of Luxembourg
• The recipe for the Big Mac sauce is public information, but the ratio of the ingredients is a closely guarded secret. The sauce is manufactured off-site, and delivered to restaurants in sealed canisters. (source: Daily Telegraph)
• A single patty could contain meat from over 100 cows
• Patties are cooked for exactly 42 seconds. The three buns — crown (the top), club (the bread between the two burgers that make a Big Mac) and heel (the bottom) — are toasted for exactly 35 seconds. The full process of cooking and assembling a Big Mac takes exactly 90 seconds
• The ingredients in a McDonald’s burger bun are (source: Food Matters): Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil and/or Canola Oil, Contains 2% or Less: Salt, Wheat Gluten, Calcium Sulfate, Calcium Carbonate, Ammonium Sulfate, Ammonium Chloride, Dough Conditioners (May Contain One or More of: Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, DATEM, Ascorbic Acid, Azodicarbonamide, Mono and Diglycerides, Ethoxylated Monoglycerides, Monocalcium Phosphate, Enzymes, Guar Gum, Calcium Peroxide), Sorbic Acid, Calcium Propionate and/or Sodium Propionate (Preservatives), Soy Lecithin, Sesame Seed.

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