hamburger

Have you ever heard about these funny facts about hamburger?

A hamburger, beefburger or burger is a sandwich consisting of one or more cooked patties of ground meat, usually beef, placed inside a sliced bread roll or bun. The patty may be pan fried, grilled, or flame broiled. Hamburgers are often served with cheese, lettuce, tomato, bacon, onion, pickles, or chiles; condiments such as mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup, relish, or "special sauce"; and are frequently placed on sesame seed buns. A hamburger topped with cheese is called a cheeseburger. This food combines salad and meat together.

Fact number 1. ‘Burger’ is actually a stripped name. The actual name is Hamburger. The name Hamburger was derived from Hamburg steaks that were introduced to the US by German immigrants.

Fact number 2. Hamburgers weren’t really much popular until its introduction at St. Louis World’s fair held in year 1904.

Fact number 3. In America alone, 50 billion burgers are eaten in one single year! Now that’s quite a figure!

Fact number 4. In Wisconsin’s Seymour, there is something known as Hamburger Hall of Fame!

Fact number 5. How big was the biggest Hamburger? Well, it was a giant. In 1982, 10,000 people came to taste the largest Hamburger ever built. Even if it was just a single bite; imagine the mammoth size that was needed to feed those 10,000 mouths. The burger weighed a staggering 3,591 pounds.

Fact number 6. Hamburgers along with cheeseburgers account for 71% of beef served in commercial hotels of US.

Fact number 7. If all Hamburgers eaten by Americans in a year are arranged in a straight line, it would circle our Earth 32 times or more!

Fact number 8. Many US cities claim to have invented this interesting food but it is widely believed that it was invented in 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut.

Fact number 9. In 1921, the first fast food restaurant was opened which sold hamburgers for just 5 cents!

Fact number 10. 60% of sandwiches sold globally are actually burgers.

Fact number 11. McDonald’s holds the record of selling 300 billion burgers till date. The company sells 75 or more burgers every second.