Ah, fractions. Who needs 'em? Not burger devotees. According to Canadian news outlet CBC, the famous McDonald's Quarter Pounder burger once had a larger cousin, the Third-of-a-Pound Burger.

If you have a hankering for a hamburger, math may have some timesaving cooking tips for you. Increasing the number of times a burger is flipped from one side to the other reduces its cook time by ...

After chatting with people who snubbed the A&W burger for the smaller Quarter Pounder, the reason became clear: Americans suck at fractions. Alfred Taubman, who owned A&W at the time, wrote about ...