History of Burgers
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Burgers are a common product in fast food outlets and restaurants. They are especially popular with kids and teenagers who cannot stay without eating at least one a day. In fact, fast food chains like McDonald’s and Burger King are credited with making burgers famous throughout the world.
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Though there have been many versions on who invested the burger, the version with proper documented evidence is the one that gives credit to Fletcher Davis for inventing the burger. He started selling hamburgers in his café during the late 1880s. It was brought to attention to a wider audience when he sold them at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. This has been corroborated by McDonald's.
However, according to the Library of Congress, the inventor of the burger was Louis Lassen. He was the owner of Louis' Lunch, a lunch wagon. This was some time during 1895. This event was recorded in The New York Times in an article entitled Louis’s Lunch. The article talked about the how burger came to be sold in America. Also, the article said that the dish served by Lassen did not have a name, so some German sailors named it hamburger.
Jeff Lassen, Louis Lassen’s great grandson, states that the invention of the hamburger is the pride and joy of their family, and the family still sells burgers from the time of his great grandfather till today at Louis' Lunch.
It was during the First World War that the modern burger first came about. The first modern hamburger to be sold was at the Drexel's Pure Food Restaurant in 1917. By the 1920s, burgers were sold in many parts of the United States, and they became quite popular with people.
Top quality burgers make use of minced beef mixed with seasonings. Such burgers are called ‘all-beef patties’. In 1930, beef patties were mixed with ground liver. The original beef recipe is what is used in a traditional burger till this very day. Today, the original beef burger is highly popular, although variations like the cheese burger and vegetable burger have also gained popularity.
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