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Many people have claimed to have invented the hamburger as a sandwich of a ground beef patty placed between two slices of bread. All claims for invention occur between 1885 and 1904, making it probable that the hamburger was created sometime in these two decades.
Who Invented the Hamburger? Louis Lassen is often credited with serving one of the earliest versions of the hamburger at his restaurant, Louis’ Lunch, in New Haven, Connecticut. The story goes that in 1900, a customer came into his restaurant and was in a hurry.
Led by McDonald’s (and helped by the introduction abroad of U.S. hamburger culture by millions of members of the American armed services during World War II), the hamburger—and American-style...
George Motz, the author of Hamburger America and director of the documentary of the same name, says it wasn’t a hamburger as we know it today that was created in Hamburg.
Fletcher Davis of Athens, Texas claimed to have invented the hamburger. According to oral histories, in the 1880s, he opened a lunch counter in Athens and served a 'burger' of fried ground beef patties with mustard and Bermuda onion between two slices of bread, with a pickle on the side. [15]
In Wisconsin, many claim the burger was invented by Charlie Nagreen, who purportedly sold a meatball between two slices of bread at an 1885 fair in Seymour.
Who Invented the Modern Hamburger? It is very likely that hamburgers naturally evolved from restaurants serving hamburger steak with bread on the side back in the late 1800s.
In 1974, The New York Times published a story about Louis' Lunch claiming to have invented the hamburger. 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.
There are many who claim to have invented the hamburger, from two gentlemen at a county fair in New York to a restaurant owner in Connecticut to a couple creating flame-grilled beef patties to celebrate the Fourth of July in Oklahoma.
The history of the hamburger is truly a story that has been run through the meat grinder. Some sources say it began with the Mongols, who stashed raw beef under their saddles as they waged their campaign to conquer the known world.