National Burger Day

National Burger Day is held annually in August on the Thursday before the bank holiday 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. To celebrate this, National Burger Day was created by Mr. Hyde,  a daily email service targeted at men that featured lifestyle content.
HISTORY OF NATIONAL BURGER DAY
The closest thing resembling a burger was first made in the 1st century A.D. in Rome — this was a ground minced meat dish prepared with pine nuts, peppers, and flavorings of wine and garum. It took 12 more centuries for the meat to be tenderized and eaten on the go in the 13th century A.D. by the Mongols. They were known to be fierce horsemen who used impressive fighting tactics to win any war. Known for their efficiency and smarts, they carried thick slabs of beef tucked under their saddles that became tenderized during the day’s riding. The meat could then be consumed easily by the rider. Then in 1747, a hamburger ‘prototype’ called Hamburg sausage appeared in Hannah Glasse’s “The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy.” She writes of a smoked sausage made of ground beef, pepper, cloves, nutmeg, garlic, vinegar, salt, and red wine, to be served on toast. By 1802, “The Oxford English Dictionary” includes an entry for a ‘Hamburg steak’ — a salted, minced ground beef, slightly smoked and mixed with onions
and breadcrumbs. It is believed that, years later, 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 groundup 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 peoplecould 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.

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