BBB Destination - North Huntingdon

When I lived in the wilds of Colorado, every Friday for an entire semester, a few of us would pile into a car or van and head east to Boulder, some 220 miles away, to attend a lecture on Philosophy (yeah, I know). One of the intrepids was a chemistry prof who actually never went to the lectures (go figure) but came along each week so he could grab a Big Mac at the local McDs - or maybe he was covertly trying to figure out the chemical elements of the secret sauce. Guess I'll never know.

It wouldn't surprise me to hear he made the much longer trek to North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania to the Big Mac Museum and Restaurant if nothing else but to pay homage to the 14-foot-tall Big Mac.

The subject of countless Big Mac attacks was born about 40 miles south of here, in Uniontown, when franchisee Jim Delligatti introduced it as a menu item in August 1967. Delligatti's family now owns 18 McDonald's, and they decided to open their museum on the Big Mac's 40th anniversary in North Huntingdon, rather than at the birthplace, because this store gets more traffic.