But customers expecting to pay just 55 cents without buying a more expensive combo meal will find disappointment under the Golden Arches.
Hell, if he can figure out how to work some potato and cola bean genes in there, he might make an animal that can produce an entire Wendy's combo meal.
Mr. Jacobson also said that menu labeling would require McDonald's to tell customers before they order that the various combo meals can have as many as 1,000 calories.
Back Yard Burgers also offers salads, baked potatoes, or other side items as optional replacements for fries in its combo meals, and also offers a vegetarian garden burger.
The album was available for purchase separately, but it also came with most of the large combo meals, free of charge.
So, in fact, it was a value-priced "combo meal" and not much less expensive than the ones already out there.
These sandwiches are also offered as part of a "lite combo meal": the sides are salad and bottled water instead of French fries and a soft drink.
At McDonald's, people buy the combo meal when they might rather just have a small order of fries with their Quarter Pounder.
Meantime, the Happy Meal, a combo meal for children featuring a toy, was added to the menu in 1979.
I ordered the combo meal ($8.25), which also includes French fries and a bottle of soda.