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Michael James
Delligatti invented the Big Mac - two beef patties on a
hamburger bun - which debuted at a McDonald's restaurant in
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1967.
McDonald's tweeted a message on Wednesday celebrating
Delligatti's contribution to the fast-food company where he was
a franchisee.
"Today, we celebrate the 98 inspirational years of Big Mac
inventor, Michael "Jim" Delligatti. Jim, we thank and will
forever remember you", the company said.
U.S. media reported that Delligatti died at his Pennsylvania
home on Monday.
In a 2007 interview with Reuters, Delligatti said it took two
years to convince McDonald's that the Big Mac was a good idea.
"I felt that we needed a big sandwich," he said. "But you
couldn't do anything unless they gave you permission."
The contents of the sandwich, immortalized by the popular jingle
"two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a-sesame-seed-bun"
are generally the same worldwide, although prices and nutrition
value varies.
The U.S. version of the Big Mac contains about 540 calories, 28
grams of fat and 25 grams of protein, according to the
McDonald's website.
Over the years the Big Mac's ubiquity has come to mirror that of
the Golden Arches itself. It is used to track the value of
foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar in a "Big Mac Index"
published by The Economist magazine.
(Reporting by Julie Noce; Editing by Darren Schuettler)
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