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   You've heard the (true) idea that McDonalds is not actually a fast food restaurant; it is really a commercial real estate company that by historical coincidence just happens to sell hamburgers.

   https://storeys.com/mcdonalds-canada-commercial-real-estate/

   But McDonalds is so huge that even the "just" in "just sells hamburgers" has a tectonic impact on adjacent markets, and one manifestation of that phenomenon is the McRib.

   "A McRib" is a sandwich.

   "The McRib" is a huge exercise in pork-market arbitrage.

   https://web.archive.org/web/20200303060851/https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage/