Who invented beef burger

Spuds are pretty simple, right? Most people agree that the starchy tubers originate in South America. But Chile also has a claim to potato fame. A Guardian newspaper poll found that the majority of readers thought the dish was Ghanaian, followed by Senegal, Nigeria, Botswana and finally Cameroon.

Arguing over whether it should be served with meat, seafood, vegetables — or all of the above — is another matter altogether.

Both countries argue they invented the dish — a crisp meringue with whipped cream and berries piled on top — in honour of Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who toured the places in the s. Food historians have backed either side, though the Oxford English Dictionary settled — or perhaps fuelled — the debate by updating the entry with the detail that the first recorded pavlova recipe appeared in New Zealand, in Hamburgers are American, right?

Check out these 29 secrets to making the perfect burgers. Now discover how America's fast food has changed over the decades. It's hard to find a pub or chip shop that doesn't serve a version of these beloved sausage-and-egg balls.

Several places claim to have laid the golden-breadcrumbed egg. The steamed, piquant parcels were declared Azerbaijan's national dish. In response, Armenia launched its annual Tolma Festival to promote it as an indigenous food. Yet the counties have fought about who started the tradition — with Devon even campaigning for protected status of its cream tea. Or mid-afternoon. Vichyssoise is yet another food that sounds French but is in fact believed to have been first cooked somewhere else.

This smooth soup, made with onions, leeks, potatoes and cream and served cold, is even named after the French town Vichy. It was French chef Louis Diat who apparently came up with the idea, inspired by a similar hot soup from his childhood, serving the elegant chilled version at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York in Others claim it has Basque origins, with a version of potato and leek soup served in the Spanish region for more than years.

The British spin, now served in restaurants around the world, became popular as pasta turned into a home kitchen staple. Try these perfect pasta and sauce pairings. Yet, while the waffle iron was patented in the US in , the criss-crossed favourite was brought over by Dutch colonists in the 17th century.

Even Founding Father Thomas Jefferson is believed to have been involved, starting a craze when he brought a waffle iron back from France in the s.

And the history gets even more, well, waffly. The waffle iron has also been traced back to Ancient Greece, when primitive versions were used. Then there are Belgian waffles, which look pretty much the same but are thicker and more cake-like in texture. Read more: From sandwiches to buffalo wings: foods invented by accident. Do you want to comment on this article? You need to be signed in for this feature.

The truth about who really invented the burger and other food fights solved Gallery View. Expand View. Bun fights Pixabay. Apple pie: UK vs. USA Pixabay. Fried chicken: USA vs. Scotland Pixabay. Baklava: Turkey vs. This sticky dessert — made with gossamer-thin filo pastry and nuts, drenched in syrup — might be sweet, but it certainly isn't simple. The groundwork for the ground-beef sandwich was laid with the domestication of cattle in Mesopotamia around 10, years ago , and with the growth of Hamburg, Germany, as an independent trading city in the 12th century, where beef delicacies were popular.

Jump ahead to , when political revolutions shook the 39 states of the German Confederation, spurring an increase in German immigration to the United States. With German people came German food: beer gardens flourished in American cities, while butchers offered a panoply of traditional meat preparations.

In midth-century America, preparations of raw beef that had been chopped, chipped, ground or scraped were a common prescription for digestive issues.

After a New York doctor, James H. Around the same time, the first popular meat grinders for home use became widely available Salisbury endorsed one called the American Chopper setting the stage for an explosion of readily available ground beef. As their story goes, Davis then brought his invention to the World's Fair in St.

Louis in , where the invention took off and became an American icon. His burgers are no longer served in Athens these days, but a tiny plaque marks the spot where old Fletch Davis allegedly made his invention, and locals can still be found who are proud of that history. There is just one big problem with that theory.

In New Haven, Conn. Forty-seven-year-old Jeff Lassen, the great-grandson of Louis Lassen, swears the invention of the hamburger is part of his family heritage, and he snarls at any who claim otherwise.

It's, for us, a great matter of pride, tradition, family heritage. We'll fight every one them for as long as we can as far as we can until we prove we're right. Jeff has a couple of important facts on his side.

First, the Library of Congress agrees it was Louis Lassen who invented the burger when he put scraps of ground between slices of bread for fast, easy eating. And second, Lassen's burgers are still served at Louis Lunch, a small hamburger shack in New Haven where Jeff Lassen is the fourth generation proprietor.