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From: roger1@ihlpg.UUCP (Mills)
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Subject: Re: Is it a Big Mac or a hockey puck?
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 11:15:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 23 11:15:29 1986
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> I'll bet *somebody* out there knows...  c'mon, 'fess up.  What is the 
> purpose of the small, numbered tabs that are placed next to the unserved 
> hamburgers at MacDonalds? 
> 
>                     Edward Sparks, KVUE-TV  Austin, TX   (sparks@kvue.uucp)
>       {asci1,ihnp4,seismo,gatech,harvard,ctvax,ucbvax}!ut-sally!kvue!sparks

I always thought is was the number of minutes they had been sitting.


However, knowing McDonalds practice of putting pictures on a cash register
to make things easy for the cashiers, this would seem pretty technical.