Hold the lettuce please

[953 nut 60,504]

 

National Burger Day is held annually in August on the Thursday before the labor day weekend. This year, it takes place on August 28. Burgers are convenient fast food and delicious to eat. A burger can be made in a variety of ways and served with different toppings to suit the taste of the one eating it. This is why it’s one of the most liked foods and appreciated and enjoyed by so many.

At the 1885 Erie County Fair in Hamburg, New York, brothers Frank and Charles Menches — who were running a traveling concession stand — invented the burger. They ran out of pork sausages and started putting ground-up beef on their sandwiches, creating a burger. In the same year at the Seymour Fair in Wisconsin, 15-year-old Charlie Nagreen squashed beef meatballs between slices of bread so that people could eat the sandwich easily while walking. Then in 1891, to celebrate the Fourth of July, Oscar Weber Wilby and his wife Fanny made the first flame-grilled beef patties and served them between a bun.

In 1921, in Wichita, Kansas, a cook, Walter Anderson, and entrepreneur, Billy Ingram, opened their first restaurant and changed the course of hamburger history with their design, cooking, and method of serving. In 1948, the McDonald brothers started making hamburgers in California and became the largest fast-food chain in the world. In 1953, in Florida, Burger King was established, which became the biggest challenger to McDonald’s.

 

 

[rjg854 12,287]

Nothing like a nice burger with lettuce, tomato, fried onions with mayo, with the grease running down your arms and dripping off your elbows. Now that there is a great beefburger!!  Never did understand why they called them hamburgers, there's no ham in them. Crazy Mericans  

[rmaynard 16,397]

When I was a kid, we had a Twin Kiss drive-in. Not only did they have ice cream, but root beer floats and burgers among many items on their menu. But the best burger was the Twin Kiss Hollywood burger. It was a beef patty with melted cheese, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, shredded lettuce and tomato on a freshly steamed bun. Nothing special in todays world, but just the memory of the combination of grease, mayo, ketchup and mustard dripping down my arm makes me hungry.

 

By the way, I have been in Seymore, Wisconsin and had a Butter Burger.

 

[Handy Don 14,179]

Not to put down other folks’ choices, but I could never understand my siblings' preference for pizza over a well-dressed burger.

[rmaynard 16,397]

Don, I tend to agree with you. However, in 1969 I was stationed in the Coast Guard at Governors Island. Right on the corner of the street leading to the ferry, there was a little Italian pizzeria that sold what I know as New York style pizza. A 16" pie was cut into 4 slices and sold for $.25/slice. I got hooked on that kind of pizza. But you are correct, a properly cooked beef burger can't be beat.

[Handy Don 14,179]

18 minutes ago, rmaynard said:

New York style pizza

Definitely a good choice if pizza is what you crave!

In ’69 I passed on a trip to Woodstock (wasn’t that into music and I thought it’d be boring) and started college in NYC. 

[953 nut 60,504]

8 hours ago, rjg854 said:

Never did understand why they called them hamburgers, there's no ham in them

Never know what is actually in a burger, mystery meats of all kinds could find their way between the bun halves. When I was stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (1964) there was a local burger chain that had some great hamburgers at very reasonable prices. One of the New York TV stations did an "exposé" hatchet job on them saying the burgers were horse meat with pork fat added.           they were delicious.

[Beap52 1,510]

For some reason hamburgers from a local restaurant seem to taste better than one cooked at home.  I don't know if it special ingredients like 952 nut mentioned in the last post or a grease soaked flat iron but they just have a different flavor.  I'm not talking about the fast food places but a good ole local eatery. 

[Handy Don 14,179]

Had a ‘shroom burger for dinner. Big portobello mushroom cap filled with blue cheese and covered/baked for 15 mins.Too messy to pick up and eat so I use a knife and fork!

Side salad, corn on the cob, and a baked Idaho. Yum. 

[rmaynard 16,397]

11 hours ago, Handy Don said:

Had a ‘shroom burger for dinner.

 

You lost me at 'shroom