Why can McDonald's call its quarter pounder burger that name when it isn't a quarter pound?

[Dinner]

https://www.nrn.com/quick-service/mc...sh-beef-burger

So McD's switched to new fresh never frozen burgers but to compensate for the increased costs they shrank all their burgers. The new fresh never frozen "quarter pounder" is actually six patties to one pound uncooked. That means each party is 0.167 pounds and not the advertised 0.25 pounds. How can they legally get away with pretending a burger is a quarter pound when it is actually a third less weight than that before they even cook it?

[ZEE]

Classic Oerdin-Thradeâ„¢

Some things never change.

[-Jrabbit]

Actually, it does sound like a lawsuit waiting to happen...

[spambot]

As McDonald’s Corp. transitions from frozen to fresh beef for its Quarter Pounders, the burger giant is also testing fresh product for a smaller Archburger.

“The size of the beef patty involved is (pre-cooked weight) six to a pound, marking the first time in recent memory that McDonald's U.S. is testing fresh beef for something other than quarter-pound burger patties,� reported Mark Kalinowski, an analyst with Instinet, on Tuesday.

The article says the Archburger has a one-sixth-pound patty, it does not say the quarter pounder does.

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I'm shocked to hear that he didn't read the article carefully. Shocked I tell you.

[Dinner]

I had a quarter pounder today and it sure looked smaller though I only have one or two per year.

[Aeson]

Discerning McDonalds connoisseurs want to know!

Perhaps the patty costs McDonalds 1/4th of a GBP? Or only 1/4th of the meat comes from the pound?

[spambot]

I had a quarter pounder today and it sure looked smaller though I only have one or two per year.

Maybe you've gotten bigger?

[Berzerker]

reminds me of a drug dealer I knew a long time ago, a quarter (of a gram) was actually a fifth

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And of course the difference between an "ounce" and a "lid"