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Speaker 1: Marshall Brain with today's question, why is it called hamburger
Speaker 1: when there's no ham in it? The short answer to
Speaker 1: that question is that hamburger came from Hamburg, Germany. And
Speaker 1: that's a little weird when you think about it, because
Speaker 1: the Frankfurter or ak the hot dog came from Frankfurt, Germany.
Speaker 1: Germany and fast food definitely have something going on together.
Speaker 1: Hamburger started with the Tartars and nomadic people who invaded
Speaker 1: Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The
Speaker 1: Tartars eight their s of the beef raw, hence the
Speaker 1: name steak Tartar these days. According to one account, they
Speaker 1: tenderized their beef by putting it between the saddle and
Speaker 1: the horses they rode. When the Tartars introduced the food
Speaker 1: to Germany. The beef was mixed with local spices and
Speaker 1: fried or broiled, and became known as a hamburg steak.
Speaker 1: German immigrants to the United States brought Hamburger steak with them.
Speaker 1: It showed up on New York City restaurant menus in
Speaker 1: the eighteen eighties. Hamburgers became a sensation as sandwiches at
Speaker 1: the nineteen o four World's Fair in St. Louis. White Castle,
Speaker 1: founded in nineteen twenty one in Wichita, Kansas, is the
Speaker 1: world's oldest chain of hamburger restaurants. The Hamburgers popularity exploded
Speaker 1: in the United States after World War Two, when burgers
Speaker 1: became the main menu item at drive in restaurants, spuned
Speaker 1: by the growing number of cars in the United States. McDonald's,
Speaker 1: which started as a Hamburger state and in San Bernardino, California,
Speaker 1: has spread the hamburger around the world. The world's largest
Speaker 1: restaurant chain, with more than twenty six thousand restaurants in
Speaker 1: a hundred nineteen countries, has served billions and billions of hamburgers.
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