Cosmin M. Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 During a trip to Asia in the early 1800s, a German merchant - it is said - noticed that the nomadic Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found its way back to the merchant's home town of Hamburg where cooks broiled the meat and referred to it as it as Hamburg meat. German immigrants introduced the recipe to the US. The term "hamburger" is believed to have appeared in 1834 on the menu from Delmonico's restaurant in New York but there is no surviving recipe for the meal. The first mention in print of "Hamburg steak" was made in 1884 in the Boston Evening Journal. The honour of producing the first proper hamburger goes to Charlie Nagreen of Seymour, WI. In 1885 Nagreen introduced the American hamburger at the Outgamie County Fair in Seymour. (Seymour is recognised as the hamburger capital of the world.) However, there is another claim to that throne. There is an account of Frank and Charles Menches who, also in 1885, went to the Hamburg, New York county fair to prepare their famous pork sausage sandwiches. But since the local meat market was out of pork sausage, they used ground beef instead. Alas, another hamburger. The first account of serving ground meat patties on buns - taking on the look of the hamburger as we know it today - took place in 1904 at the St. Louis World Fair. But it was many years later, in 1921, that an enterprising cook from Wichita, Kansas, Walt Anderson, introduced the concept of the hamburger restaurant. He convinced financier Billy Ingram to invest $700 to create The White Castle hamburger chain. It was an instant success. The rest of the history, we might say, belongs to McDonald's. Quote
Cosmin M. Posted February 16, 2009 Author Posted February 16, 2009 No problem. Read the other one about the Wright Brothers too. Quote
Liz Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 That is interesting. I'm glad we don't have to ride around on it anymore, before we get to eat it. Quote For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Mat. 16:26Please, support the JDRF and help find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. Please, support the March of Dimes.
Cosmin M. Posted February 16, 2009 Author Posted February 16, 2009 But how do WE know that?! O.o Quote
Amelia Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Ewwwwwwwww Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
Administrators Gail Posted February 16, 2009 Administrators Posted February 16, 2009 HEY COSMIN THAT is interesting history of the hamburger What? You mean it isn't the history of steak tartare? Only if it's eaten raw, I guess... Quote Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Amelia Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
True-believer Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 WOW!!! I work at McDonalds... Thankyou for the added information... The Double Quarter Pounder is the best burger with added lettuce and tomato and mayo... mmmmmmm............... sounds so nice............ it's making me so hungry for a delicious fatty hamburger......... LOADED WITH LOTS OF BACON!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!! BACON, BACON, BACON, ------ NO THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!! BUT IT IS SO IRRESISTIBLE--THE BACON FLAVOUR IN THE HAMBURGER IT'S MAKING ME WANT TO EAT A DOUBLE BACON BURGER!!!!!!!!!! LOL......... LOL......... Quote Luke 4:19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Members phkrause Posted February 17, 2009 Members Posted February 17, 2009 Luke I used to love eating hamburgers. But my first choice was Wendy's than Burger King. Last choice was MacDonald's. They did a nutrition piece on burgers and Wendy's came out the first. I haven't eaten a burger now for many years. It used to call to me when I drove by pk Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Cosmin M. Posted February 17, 2009 Author Posted February 17, 2009 Burgers are not healthy. At all. I like to eat very rarely red meat. I stick to chicken and fish. Quote
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