Juicy facts about the hamburger

We searched the web for some fun facts about burgers and found a few interesting facts, like: did you know the origins of the hamburger is unknown? The best guess was that it originated either from Germany or… yes you guessed it… America.

Huff Post Food for Thought listed a few more facts and trivia about the hamburger.

Everything you ever needed to know about hamburgers, and then some:

• Americans eat nearly 50 billion burgers a year, which translates to three burgers a week for every single person in the United States. That’s a lot of beef.
• McDonald’s mogul Ray Kroc didn’t get into the burger business until he was in his 50’s. (There’s still hope for you to make your billions.)
• White Castle is the oldest burger chain in America. It was started in 1921 by Walter A. Anderson and E.W. Ingram who sold their burgers for 5 cents a piece.

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• Burgers account for 40 percent of all sandwiches sold. Take that club sandwich.
• Hamburgers are also called the Liberty Sandwich because soldiers during WWI wanted to avoid using the German name.
• According to McDonald’s, the chain sells 75 burgers every single second of every minute of every hour of every single day.
• The Library of Congress credits Louis Lassen of Louis Lunch sandwich shop in New Haven, CT as the creator of the hamburger as we know it.
  
• The Hamburger hall of fame is located in Seymour, Wisconsin.
• The worst hamburger was found listed on Listverse  that read:
  ‘Certainly, no one would classify hamburgers as a health food, and dietary wisdom dictates that a serving of meat should be about three ounces (85g), or the size of a deck of cards. But one restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada, shuns such conventions. Offering up what the founder calls “nutritional pornography,” the Heart Attack Grill’s menu includes such cardiovascularly destructive fare as butterfat milkshakes and fries cooked in pure lard. Their signature Quadruple Bypass Burger has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s most calorific burger. The Quadruple Bypass consists of four half-pound (about 0.23kg) hamburgers, three tablespoons of lard, 20 slices of bacon, eight slices of American cheese, 20 slices of caramelized onion baked in lard, eight tomato slices, one tablespoon of mayonnaise, two tablespoons of ketchup, one tablespoon of mustard, and a bun. It contains a staggering 9,982 calories.

  

  The restaurant has a whole tongue-in-cheek hospital motif, with buxom, scantily clad “nurses” acting as waitresses. Diners who weigh more than 350 pounds (159 kg) eat for free. Should you fail to devour your burger in its entirety, the nurses will gleefully paddle your behind. Unfortunately, patrons of the grill have actually succumbed to cardiac arrest, including unofficial spokesman John Alleman, a daily customer who died of a heart attack at a bus stop in front of the restaurant. Another spokesman, 29-year-old, 6-foot-eight, 575-pound (260,81kg) Blair River, died in 2011 of pneumonia, and his death was likely tied to his obesity. Despite these tragedies, the Heart Attack Grill continues to do incredible business in Sin City, and the restaurant has been featured on several food- and travel-related programs.’

Everyone has their favourite burger and some say the hotdog is better we don’t mind their babble… Enjoy National Hamburger Day.  Go buy one for lunch or make one for dinner tonight. Just enjoy it!

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