History of the hamburger
History of the hamburger
Today the hamburger is considered quite a modern dish, the brainchild of a new culture. More than once young people have heard from moms, dads, and grandparents that "in my day there were no hamburgers like that, and everyone was healthy. But is this really true? Is this dish really an innovation, or can the history of hamburgers surprise us with its depth? Let's try to find out.
The hamburger: a history of creation, the beginning of which is not easy to find
It's worth a little digging, and it turns out that there are quite a few contenders for the role of the creator of the first hamburger.
According to one version, the first hamburger was created by Scythian nomads: it is believed that they ate beef stacked between two tortillas, in the 8th century BC. However, since the Scythians had no written language, there is no exact mention of it.
The Chinese also claim to be the progenitor of the hamburger, claiming that they were the first in the world to eat meat and put it between two tortillas of rice.
Of the more authentic versions, there is the story of a Hamburg merchant who in 1800 saw Tatar nomads holding meat under the saddle of their horses. In this way it was softened and repelled. When he returned home, he asked his cook to prepare the meat in the same way. Thus Hamburg meat was born, a recipe that later made its way to the United States. And in 1834, in a restaurant in New York City, the term "hamburger" was heard for the first time.
But that's not the whole story of the hamburger. We have yet to learn about when this delicious type of fast food was first seen in its familiar form, as hamburger delivery Odessa, for example.
Hamburger: the history of the modern version
Familiar to us hamburger appeared in the United States. And this "hamburger history" began in 1885, at the fair "Outgamie", in a small town called Seymour. The idea belonged to Charlie Nagrin, who was trying to sell more food. He realized that if meat could be eaten on the go, people would take more of it because the fair was not an event where there was time to make a stop for a bite to eat.
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