History Of Hamburger

Hamburger, America’s crispy, cheesy love affair with meat and buns kissed with spices and seasonings originated in the sturdy Reich ruled city of Hamburg, Germany. Who ever knew that this tender, mouth-watering, food lusting hailed has “America’s favourite food” would be concocted in the Jew hating, race conceiting Germany. In 19^th century, Hamburg cow’s beef was grinded and mixed with herbs, spices and seasonings to form into delicate patties to make Hamburg steaks; they were made without bread or buns to be noted.   These early burgers, worshipped as connoisseurs of food were highly priced according to the quality of Hamburg beef; one interesting fact, the concept of sandwich was discovered way later.

Immigrated Germans (Majorly Jews) to New York and Chicago who opened restaurants for a living, pioneered the Hamburg steak in a more flavoursome patty showing America glimpses of paradise with each bite. The only German link to America, Hamburg beef came with a fat price, with no options to refrigerate; fresh juicy beef was cooked and served with two pieces of bread afloat, sprinkled with more spices and seasonings, the children didn’t worry about opening their mouth big enough, neither the ladies for their smudged lipsticks or the men with shards of meat on their beards, this was just unadulterated love. Industrial revolution in America made this their saviour, hungry workers vouched on this ready-to-eat delicious hamburger, the steam powered factories began operations through night hours, parking their food carts outside for the famished workers to order on the way, much quickly and get back to work. As the years unfolded, hamburgers were already an American classic.

When WWII saw shortages in food with less harvesting and rationing of meat, hamburger continued to grow popularity, American soldiers bought hamburgers overseas as a ravishing antidote to homesickness in the nerves of the troops. McDonald brothers opened their first burger drive-in in San Bernadino, California in 1940s; by 1950s McDonalds had sold over a million hamburgers.

Hamburgers can literally be found everywhere today; they’re no longer the meat munching paradise of the America upper class. With evolution overtime, the meat patties come in varieties paired with every topping imaginable. Hamburgers have since been designed according to vast culture differences, meat patties have been replaced with healthy vegetarian options like potatoes, black beans or salmons for fish eating majority. To answer the question of the qualification of burgers according to traditional sense, one fast food chain in Japan named MOS Burgers serve rice burgers, a healthy option. Likewise, Mcdonald’s have gone all the way to develop McAloo Tikki burgers made totally from fried potatoes and peas mashed with layers of tomatoes and onions topped with various ingredients to satisfy and capture a large market without intimidating the taste preference of Hindu diners. 

Many restaurants across the county create the biggest hamburgers and let the food lovers much them down in a competition. With its non-sustainable demand, burgers have challenged scientists to grow burgers in labs, its shivering enough?