(link from sat and matthew's verbal yesterday): guys, it's not the existence of cheeseburger fries that is interesting in this nyt article, it's the implication that a massive shift in meat consumption from beef to chicken that took place largely because of the mcnugget: "Twenty years ago Americans ate 77.1 pounds of beef per capita and 51.3 pounds of chicken. In 2001, the figures were 66.2 pounds of beef per capita and 75.6 pounds of chicken. That reversal took place in part because of the popularity of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets, which were introduced in 1983." dang, 15 pounds of chcken ncnuggets is a lot of "extra parts.