Just a note to remind everyone that today is National Hamburger Day. The fête could have landed on any day of the year. But it’s always celebrated on May 28 – on or near Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of the grilling season!
It’s unclear who, exactly, invented National Hamburger Day, but it’s been celebrated in a big way since at last 2010. And all the major burger chains have backed it bigtime.
It’s fitting that Americans make a big deal of it. After all, the hamburger as we know it was invented in the US, allegedly around 1900.
Wikipedia relates, “The invention of hamburgers is commonly attributed to various people, including Charlie Nagreen, Frank and Charles Menches, Oscar Weber Bilby, Fletcher Davis, or Louis Lassen.”
The most famous origin story is that Lassen was asked for a steak sandwich by a customer in a hurry, but had run out of steaks. Legend has it, Lassen quickly chopped up the trimmings from the day’s previous steaks and made them into a patty. The rest is truly, as they say, history.
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And check out FoodReference.com for a veritable feast of hamburger trivia!
~ Maggie J.