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The U.S. Library of Congress' American Folklife Center Local Legacies Project website credits Louis' Lunch as the maker of America's first hamburger and steak sandwich. The hamburger is still served today on two pieces of toast and not a bun. [citation needed] Dyer's Burgers, 1912, Memphis, Tennessee, deep-fried burgers using a cast-iron skillet.
Hamburger profile showing the typical ingredients: bread, vegetables, and ground meat. Open hamburger with cheese and fries served in an American diner. Originally just a ground beef patty, as it is still interpreted in multiple languages, [a] the first hamburger likely originated in Hamburg (), hence its name; [1] [2] however, evidence also suggests that the United States may have later been ...
A hamburger, or simply a burger, is a dish consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll.The patties are often served with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, bacon, or chilis with condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, relish or a "special sauce", often a variation of Thousand Island dressing, and are ...
Along with the Golden Arches, fast-food chains like Burger King and Wendy's popularized burgers and exported the concept worldwide, making the hamburger one of the most recognizable and beloved ...
Hamburgers are a staple of the American diet. We love our burgers so much that we consume about 48 billion every year, which averages out to about three hamburgers per week per person. While the ...
Louis' Lunch is a fast food hamburger restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, which claims to be the first fast food restaurant to serve hamburgers and the oldest continuously operated hamburger restaurant in the United States. It was opened as a small lunch wagon in 1895 and was one of the first places in the U.S. to serve steak sandwiches.
The bean burger tops a beef patty with refried beans, onions, Fritos or crushed tortilla chips, and Cheez Whiz — something that was new and novel back when the burger was invented in the 1950s.
Sandwiches calling for hamburger patties to be placed into two slices of bread, rather than into a bun, date to the mid-1800s and were referred to as hamburger sandwiches. [6] It is unclear when the patty melt was invented, but it was most likely the mid-20th century, either during the Great Depression or the postwar economic boom .