From Sea To Shining Sea: Americans Ate 9 BILLION Burgers Last Year

GrubStreet – Despite several reasons to assume otherwise, American hamburgers and the associated, jacked-up price of beef patties had a terrific 2014. According to new market research from NPD Group, restaurants sold 9 billion burgers last year, or 30 million more than 2013. This happened despite the price of beef catapulting to record highs in the last 12 months, and a general slowdown of traffic through hamburger-centric fast-food chains compared to their industry peers

Good LORD. Land of the free, home of the brave. Even so, that’s still not that bad if you think about it. There’s roughly 316 million people living in America (excluding, according to FoxNews projections, a trilion and 1 illegal immigrants residing in about 25 vans). So if you do the math that’s an average of…pops up computer calculator…forgets how many zeros are in a billion…twice…28 burgers per human. Sure, there are people like my vegan bitch of a cousin who knock the average down, but my yearly O/U has to hover around 100 alone. My passion for acquiring heart disease by the age of 30 isn’t alone in this great nation. Shit, if it didn’t close on Sunday I’d live inside 500 Degrees on drunken weekends. With a little luck, we’ll all be living in a fat man’s Wall-E existence sooner than later.