Could our number one slot really have gone to anything else? Added to McDonald’s menus in the 1960s, the Big Mac is one of the most famous burgers on the planet. It features two beef patties, a three-part sesame seed bun, Big Mac sauce, pickles, lettuce, chopped onion and cheese. It’s the chain’s signature item and it's so widely available around the world that The Big Mac Index is used as an economic tool.

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