One hundred years after the fast food phenomenon had first gripped America, a respected economist calculated the economic impact of all those burgers and published it in the daily news media. The dollar value was staggering, but what was even more surprising to Levon was the number of burgers the economist claimed had been devoured in that time. He had even coined a new superlative quantity to describe it: a ‘burgillion’. Eleven burgillion fast food hamburgers had supposedly been cooked and eaten in the last hundred years.
Levon put the newsreader down and considered the number of zeros in a burgillion. It didn’t seem possible.
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"I, Burger" by Todd R. Snow (excerpt), from "re:myth - Stories and Poems by the BlackTop MotorCycle Gang", Joe Blades and Biff Mitchell (eds.), Broken Jaw Press 2010 http://www.brokenjaw.com/
