McDonalds v.s. Burger King

It is no secret that almost everyone likes fast food restaurants. As there are many different kinds of fast food restaurants, of coarse there are going to be rivalries. One of the rivalries are as you might have guessed are McDonalds & Burger King! Lets take a trip down the greasy french fry lane, shall we.

McDonolds is on our top of our list today. The first McDonald's was built in 1940 by the McDonald brothers (Dick and Mac). Ray Kroc became the first franchisee appointed by Mac and Dick McDonald in San Bernardino, California.Dick and Mac McDonald were brothers who opened their first restaurant. It was named McDonald's Bar-B-Q, and it was a drive-in with car hop service. After several years in business, the McDonald brothers decided it was time for a change. They shut down the restaurant for renovations, reopened as simply McDonald's without the Bar-B-Q, and served hamburgers and cheeseburgers instead. After a year of serving their new menu, the brothers added a couple of items. Instead of potato chips they served French fries, and they also added milkshakes.

The brothers continued happily for a few years, but their vision evolved into a wish for their restaurant to grow. They met a salesman named Ray Kroc, who would help them grow the business. After only a few months Ray Kroc opened the first new location for the McDonald brothers. It featured the now-famous golden arches. McDonald's popularity skyrocketed. In just a few years running they had sold their one hundred millionth burger, and before long they would have over 700 stores. In 1962, the first store with indoor seating was opened. Also in 1966 Ronald McDonald the clown made his television debut in McDonald's very first TV commercial. He was an instant hit, and even walked in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. After the popularity in America, McDonald's opened its first international stores. Stores were opened in Canada and Puerto Rico.

Now we are gonna get our royal on. Well not really. Our second story for today is on Burger King. Every day, more than 11 million guests visit BURGER KING® restaurants around the world. And they do so because our restaurants are known for serving high-quality, great-tasting, and affordable food, says BK. It was founded in 1954, BURGER KING® is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world and the original HOME OF THE WHOPPER®.Miami entrepreneurs James McLamore and David Edgerton founded Burger King Corporation in 1954. Five years later, they were ready to expand their five Florida Burger Kings into a nationwide chain.

By the time they sold their company to Pillsbury in 1967, Burger King had become the third largest fast-food chain in the country and was on its way to second place, after industry leader McDonald's.The company franchises more than 10,400 restaurants and owns about 1,000 for a chainwide total exceeding 11,455, with locations in all 50 states and 56 countries. The company serves 15.7 million customers each day and over 2.4 billion Burger King hamburgers are sold each year across the globe. 

So which history story did you find the most interesting? This is my last blog and i have really enjoyed writing all of these blogs even though i know people really don't read them. Anyways here are some little extra facts about these two franchises. 

- More than 1.3 billion WHOPPER® sandwiches are sold each year worldwide!
- 221,184 ways to mix and match ingredients means countless ways to love the WHOPPER® sandwich.
- Emmy award-winning host, Ellen DeGeneres in her first stand-up act, ate a WHOPPER®, fries and a shake on stage.
- Over 11 million guests walk through the doors of a BURGER KING® restaurant worldwide each day.
- Hungry New Year! What day of the year holds the record for most WHOPPER® sandwiches sold? Dec.31.
- In the 10 seconds it takes you to read this fact, more than 400 Whopper® sandwiches have been enjoyed.
In fact, 41 Whopper® sandwiches are eaten around the world every second. - 1957 was the year the Whopper® was born
- In 1957, the cost of the Whopper® was only 37¢

-McDonald’s originally sold hot dogs, not hamburgers.
-1 in 8 Americans has been employed by a McDonald’s
-87,000 people recently petitioned McDonald’s to add a veggie burger to their menu.
-The Egg McMuffin was modeled after eggs benedict.

-McDonald’s in Colombia offers a pineapple Oreo McFlurry
-McDonald’s feeds 68 million people per day.
-The company sells more than 75 hamburgers per second.

Gatorade v.s. Powerade

Whenever you go on a little run or jog after a while you may feel a little dehydrated and you know the best thing to do when dealing with deterioration is to get a drink of some sort. Water is usually one of the main things you drink when you are tired but sometimes you just need a little sugar to get you hyped up.  Sports drink are usually good for those types of things. There are many different types of brands of sports drinks but the two main ones i think would be Gatorade and Powerade. Don't hate me but i like them both equally. I feel like poweade may taste a little bit more like water than it does sports drink. But either way I liken them equally. As i have been doing in my past blogs i like to give you guys a little bit of a background of  both of the items of I have presented to you. So here it goes.

Its time to get a little bit sciency in the lab of the Gatorade. It all started in  the summer of 1965 when a University of Florida assistant coach sat down with a team of university physicians and asked them to determine why so many of his players were being affected by heat and heat related illnesses.The researchers — Dr. Robert Cade, Dr. Dana Shires, Dr. H. James Free and Dr. Alejandro de Quesada — soon discovered two key factors that were causing the Gator players to 'wilt': the fluids and electrolytes the players lost through sweat were not being replaced, and the large amounts of carbohydrates the players' bodies used for energy were not being replenished.They soon took their findings into the lab, and scientifically formulated a new, precisely balanced carbohydrate-electrolyte beverage that would adequately replace the key components lost by Gator players through sweating and exercise. They called their concoction ‘Gatorade'.I'm not quite sure how they came up with the name though.

After the gator players were introduced to the new invention they certainly showed some improvement. They actually began winning. GO GATORS! Word about Gatorade began to spread outside of the state of Florida, and both the University of Richmond and Miami of Ohio, began ordering batches of Gatorade for their football teams. Orders from other college football programs across the country soon followed, as playing without Gatorade on your sidelines began to be likened to playing with just ten men on the field.

In the summer of 1969, Coach Ray Graves of the Florida Gators suggested to the Kansas City Chiefs that they use Gatorade to combat the staggering effects of a blistering Missouri sun during training camp. The Chiefs were so impressed with the “Gator coach's aid” that they kept it on their sidelines throughout the entire season… which concluded with a stunning victory over the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. In the years that followed, more and more NFL teams began placing Gatorade on the sidelines of their games and practices, and in 1983, Gatorade became the official sports drink of the NFL—a title it holds to this day. Lets go forward with the story of the powderade.

Powerade was first introduced in 1988 to compete with Gatorade in sports drink sales. During that same year, Powerade became the official sports drink of the Olympics. In July 2002, The Coca-Cola Company created new bottles for Powerade which had a sport-like grip. Powerade Option was introduced in the same year to compete with Pepsico’s Propel. Option was colorless and advertised as being a “low calorie sports drink.” A new version of Powerade, called Powerade Zero, was released in 2008. It is a zero-calorie sports drink with no carbohydrates, although it does contain electrolytes. Powerade’s main competition is Gatorade, which brings me to why I am blogging about this.

Since it was first introduced in 1988, Powerade has become the official sports drink of the Australian, New Zealand, and Ireland rugby teams, the AFL, PGA Tour, NASCAR, NHRA, NCAA, the U.S. Olympic Team (excluding basketball and soccer, which have deals with Gatorade) and several other leagues and organizations around the world. Over the year the years there have been many deiscontinued flavors here are a list of discontinued flavors for powerade and some original Gatorade flavors. What turned out to be your favorite?

Discontinued Flavors of powerade:
•Arctic Shatter
•Green Squall
•Belly Burst
•Orange Tangerine
•Dark Downburst
•Jagged Ice
•Black Cherry Lime
•Infrared Freeze
•Cherry Apple
•Flava 23 Sour Berry
•Flava 23 Sour Melon

Different Gatorade flavors:
Lemon Lime (green)
* Orange (orange possibly inspired by the Gators' Orange Bowl win.)
Fruit Punch (red)
Iced Tea Cooler (brown, discontinued in 1995)
* Grape (dark purple, discontinued, replaced by Fierce Grape)
Frost Glacier Freeze (light blue)
* Frost Riptide Rush (purple)
* Frost Alpine Snow (white, discontinued.)
* Frost Whitewater Splash (green, discontinued)
* Frost Clear Melon (colorless, discontinued)
* Lemon Ice (colorless, discontinued)

Ice-Cream v.s. Fro-Yo

Americans love frozen desserts. We spend about $25 billion on the stuff on most frozen treats. And what better frozen treats are there that are better than ice-cream and frozen yogurt. They’re both frozen treats, both dairy-based, both yummy. There are many different variety of both that it makes it harder to just pick one. Ice-cream and frozen yogurt are almost similar in texture but totally different in taste. Well at least i think so. It is almost hardly impossible to pick. So that is why I am going to talk about their history and what not. So which frozen treat will win this intense face-off?
Lets start of by understanding what these frozen treats are if you have never came into contact with which i am sure most of you have. Frozen yogurt is a frozen dessert made with yogurt and sometimes other dairy products. It varies from slightly to much more tart than ice cream, as well as being lower in fat. I don't want to get into all the nutritional facts about frozen yogurt but it is a healthier alternative to ice-cream. Any who, there are many interesting things on our famous frozen yogurt. It might be surprising to some to find out that today's hottest frozen dessert treat, frozen yogurt, actually has its origins in the early 1970s. Many customers didn't particularly care for the tart taste of the original recipes. It wasn't until more sugar was introduced to help balance the dessert's tartness that it finally started gaining in popularity during the 1980s. But, even as its popularity increased through the 80s, the dessert was still largely considered a fad and in no way a serious contender to ice cream as the king of frozen desserts. By the 1990s, frozen yogurt had taken a 10% share of the frozen dessert market.

While frozen yogurt's popularity held steady through the 90s, it wasn't until the introduction of the self serve frozen yogurt franchise in the 2000s that the dessert finally started taking off. In addition to utilizing new manufacturing technologies, recipe experiments, and the addition of a huge assortment of toppings, today's frozen yogurt is tastier and healthier than ever before, making it a favorite dessert option for health-minded individuals and ice cream converts alike. So i guess you have figured out already that frozen yogurt dose not have a long story to it. Mostly because it was started not too long ago. Hopefully this gave you a pretty good idea on Frozen Yogurt. Now on-wards to the ice-cream!

Ice cream's origins are known to reach back as far as the second century B.C., although no specific date of origin nor inventor has been undisputably credited with its discovery. We know that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavored with honey and nectar. Biblical references also show that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavored with fruits and juices. France was introduced to similar frozen desserts in 1553 by the Italian Catherine de Medici when she became the wife of Henry II of France. It wasn't until 1660 that ice cream was made available to the general public.

The first official account of ice cream in the New World comes from a letter written in 1744 by a guest of Maryland Governor William Bladen. In 1813, Dolley Madison served a magnificent strawberry ice cream creation at President Madison's second inaugural banquet at the White House. Manufacturing ice cream soon became an industry in America, pioneered in 1851 by a Baltimore milk dealer named Jacob Fussell. Like other American industries, ice cream production increased because of technological innovations, including steam power, mechanical refrigeration, the homogenizer, electric power and motors, packing machines, and new freezing processes and equipment. Ice cream became an edible morale symbol during World War II. Each branch of the military tried to outdo the others in serving ice cream to its troops. In 1945, the first "floating ice cream parlor" was built for sailors in the western Pacific. When the war ended, and dairy product rationing was lifted, America celebrated its victory with ice cream. Americans consumed over 20 quarts of ice cream per person in 1946.

I find it very interesting on how long the ice-cream history is. And it is also interesting how we have been eating something that dates back to such a long time ago. Now, specialty ice cream stores and unique restaurants that feature ice cream dishes have surged in popularity. These stores and restaurants are popular with those who remember the ice cream shops and soda fountains of days past, as well as with new generations of ice cream fans.

I personally can't choose in between neither of theses treats. They are both absolutely delicious and for me they are both winners. Today, it is estimated that over 1.6 billion gallons of ice cream and related frozen dairy products are produced annually in the United States alone. In addition, U.S. citizens eat a whopping four gallons of ice cream per person each year on average. There were approximetly 74 million gallons of frozen yogurt produced last year. No wonder i cant choose!