Hamburger History is really a Story that ran through the Meat Grinder

In the beginning ...

Let's take a look at the enigmatic origins of the most popular food in the world ... Hamburger!

As controversial as it is, the history of the hamburger is really a story that ran through the meat grinder. Softened meat was formed in flat slabs, and after time spent sandwiched between man and donkey animal flesh became soft enough to eat raw - certainly a benefit to the fastest drivers on the move n ' like not disassemble.

Hamburger History

When the grand-son of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan and his hordes invaded Moscow, which naturally has their unique dietary ground beef with them. The Russians have adopted in your own kitchen with the name "Steak Tartare" (Tartars being its name from the Mongols). Later, as the picked up world trade, maritime we brought this idea to the port city of Hamburg, Germany, where the Deutschvolk decided to shape it with breadcrumbs shaped steak and cook, do something about side of Hamburg, was called "the Hamburg steak," now a popular dish today, in all places, Japan, where almost every list as Western food menu as "steak cooked in the Hamburg style" or "hanbagu."

Meat somehow soil in America. If a ground beef patty served between two slices of bread, it is a burger, credit goes to Charlie Nagreen of Seymour, Wisconsin, who at the age of 15, sold hamburgers its food booth at Outagamie oxen County Fair. In a flash of innovation, he flattened the meatballs, placed them between two slices of bread and called his new creation a hamburger. He was known by many as "Hamburger Charlie." He returned to sell hamburgers at the fair every year until his death in 1951, and it would entertain people with his guitar and mouth organ and chorus:

"Burgers, burgers, hot hamburgers ;. The city of Seymour is so sure of this statement, which is called the "home of the hamburger," holds the record for the biggest burger in the world, and has a hamburger festival every year.

To be honest, righteous descendants dealer Frank Menches county, and if If restaurateur Louis Lassen, also claim that their ancestors invented the hamburger - served on bread - in 1892 and 1900, respectively.

Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, claims to have invented our favorite meal. This statement is contradicted by the family of Frank and Charles Menches of Akron, Ohio, which now operates a small chain called, unsurprisingly, Menches Bros., and claim that his grandfather Charles and his brother Frank invented the whole flat traveling in a concession system in fairs, race meetings, picnics and farmers of the Midwest.

Regardless of where it was invented, most people agree the burger was popularized for the first time in 1904, and historians agree to McDonalds.

This is when dealer Fletcher Davis of Athens, Texas, has served the burger at the fair of St. Louis of the world. Davis spread a mixture of mustard and mayonnaise to land in thick breads and topped burger with pickles and a slice of Bermuda onion. In 1920, the burger was available in the fast food chain White Castle service and the man who gave the burger a contemporary look and sought to broaden the appeal of the product through the chain of operations was J. Walter Anderson, Wichita, Kansas, resident who co-found White Castle Hamburger system, the oldest hamburger chain operating continuously.

Helped with marketing Edgar Waldo "Billy" Ingram most experienced, Castelo Branco reached five units in 1920, selling a standardized product for five cents. Throughout the 1930s, drive in Carhops hamburger restaurants on skates was born, and it was then that the cheese was first used in hamburgers. Today, people love chicken burgers, veggie burgers and hamburgers quarter books with lots of different toppings, including lettuce, mushrooms, cheese, onions, tomatoes, ketchup, mustard, pickles, you name it, it was on a hamburger.

In the 1950s, the hamburger was an American icon. barbecues were a favorite pastime, but it took a milkshake machine salesman named Ray Kroc Czech origin met two brothers named McDonald, the course of history of the hamburger would be changed forever and product would be well pruned apple pie mom aside as an American icon. Maurice and Richard McDonald opened its self-service McDonald first time in 1948 in San Bernardino, California - as an alternative to driving in the points – as hot dog and fresh orange juice stand. McDonald following jumps are Burger King, Burger Grilled home with their signature and square cakes Carl Jr / Hardees, which, in addition to having the best burgers in the world, is famous for Paris Hilton advertising campaign last year (Wendy Hilton undress washing a car in a bikini, by introducing the idea that eating large hamburgers is a sign of masculinity), and its largest fast food hamburger, Thickburger monster with two patties, three slices of cheese, six slices of bacon, 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat, a real human meal.
Her big burgers are very popular, you see, because to reduce the cooking time and serving other burger fast food chains have thin patties you'd find in a restaurant. Carl Jr. chain restaurants recognized that, with the introduction in the US of "Six Dollar Burger" with a wafer of the same size as those served by sit-down restaurants, but at a lower price.


Would char broiled, grilled flame, steamed, fried or cooked on both sides while two grills or faces slathered with ketchup, mayonnaise, cheese or even teriyaki sauce or under the onions, avocado or mushroom burger is the restaurant industry that the wings are for flying. A century after its inception, the burger definitely has maintained its attraction.

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