We have collected for you 5 interesting facts about the most popular fast food in the world – a burger.
- Every second chef in the United States of America tried to appropriate the authorship of everyone’s favorite burger, but Louis Lessing, the owner of a grocery store in New York, an immigrant with German roots, is considered the official creator of this culinary masterpiece. His father arrived in America from Hamburg, hence the name of the hamburger was born. It was he who came up with the idea to supplement the appetizer popular at the beginning of the 20th century – a bun with a cutlet – lettuce and sauces.
- Since 1900, when Louis Lessing patented his invention, the hamburger began to triumph around the world, winning the hearts of fast food connoisseurs. At that time, the price of a hamburger was 5 cents, by comparison, a large loaf of white bread cost 7 cents.
- In the modern world, the most expensive hamburger can be tasted at The Fleur De Lys restaurant in Vegas, Nevada for only five thousand one hundred dollars! The burger will be made with truffle shavings of kobe beef in truffle brioche buns and will be accompanied by a 1990 bottle of Chateau Petrus.
In 1960, an American biologist, chemist, doctor of gastroenterology, Jesse Francis McClendon, conducted an experiment. For three months, the volunteers ate only burgers. Such nutrition did not affect the health and physical fitness of the participants in the experiment.
- Record holder for the sale of burgers – McDonald’s. By the time you’ve finished reading this offer, the largest fast food restaurant chain will sell over 355 burgers.
- The original hamburger is made exclusively with a medium rare beef patty, but today it is not uncommon to find a veggie burger, a burger with lamb or lamb, pork, llama meat, kangaroo and even a whale! On our site, in addition to the classic version, you can try spicy mushroom burgers, chicken burgers or pike perch.
