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Where did the hamburger get its name?

Feb 01, 20133 min
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The word 'hamburger' seems to imply that pork is a main ingredient, but in fact, this famous beef sandwich got its name from a city. Learn more about the origins and spread of the hamburger in this episode of BrainStuff.

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Jack Threads is the online shopping destination for dudes. Everything on the side is up to eight percent off. All styles are curated, so buyer's remorse just doesn't happen. What's more is if you were brain Stuff, you can skip the membership wait list and get instant access at jack threads dot com slash stuff. Welcome to brain Stuff from house stuff works dot com where smart happens. Hi, I'm Marshall Brain with today's question, why is it called hamburger

when there's no ham in it? The short answer to that question is that hamburger came from Hamburg, Germany. And that's a little weird when you think about it, because the Frankfurter or ak the hot dog came from Frankfurt, Germany. Germany and fast food definitely have something going on together. Hamburger started with the Tartars and nomadic people who invaded Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The Tartars eight their s of the beef raw, hence the

name steak Tartar these days. According to one account, they tenderized their beef by putting it between the saddle and the horses they rode. When the Tartars introduced the food to Germany. The beef was mixed with local spices and fried or broiled, and became known as a hamburg steak. German immigrants to the United States brought Hamburger steak with them. It showed up on New York City restaurant menus in the eighteen eighties. Hamburgers became a sensation as sandwiches at

the nineteen o four World's Fair in St. Louis. White Castle, founded in nineteen twenty one in Wichita, Kansas, is the world's oldest chain of hamburger restaurants. The Hamburgers popularity exploded in the United States after World War Two, when burgers became the main menu item at drive in restaurants, spuned by the growing number of cars in the United States. McDonald's, which started as a Hamburger state and in San Bernardino, California,

has spread the hamburger around the world. The world's largest restaurant chain, with more than twenty six thousand restaurants in a hundred nineteen countries, has served billions and billions of hamburgers. For more on this and thousands of other topics. Because it how staff works dot com, Jack threads is the online shopping destination for dudes. Everything on the side is up to eight off, All styles are curated, so buyer's

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