First get the crap out of the way….Haley loses to Trump in South Carolina (go figure)….time for her to think about retiring.

Another Sunday and what better time to learn something….especially if it is something about America’s favorite food.

It is getting to be March and that magical time we call Spring….and all across the Deep South people dusting off and rolling out their grills and one of the first things we do is cook burgers.

I admit it I do enjoy a good burger….mine is with cheese with mayo and brown mustard….put the garden on the side….but as good as a burger is where did it all begin?  (Surprise!  A little history.)

Close your eyes and picture a hamburger. Whether the version in your imagination is bursting with lettuce and tomatoes and oozing ketchup or not, it’s a sure bet that the image in your mind’s eye includes a bun. Without a bun it’s not a hamburger, though—it’s just a hamburger patty, or what used to be known as a hamburger steak (or hamburg steak).

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering who invented the first hamburger, you’re not alone. Below, discover more fascinating details about the history of hamburgers, from their minced beef-with-suet recipe origins to White Castle’s legendary “sliders,” and more.

Exactly how a dish named for a German city evolved into one of America’s favorite foods is a riddle wrapped in a mystery on a sesame seed bun.

The earliest reference to the ancestor of the hamburger appears in an English cookbook from 1763. In Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy, Hannah Glasse explains how to make a Hamburgh sausage. The recipe calls for mixing minced beef with suet, spices, wine, and rum and stuffing it into a gut, which is then smoked and dried. Except for those final steps of converting it into a sausage, the minced meat and fat with spices could be considered a hamburg steak, which is defined as a dish of salted and smoked minced beef.

The first glimpse of hamburg steak occurred around the 1870s, when this dish began popping up in restaurants. In San Francisco, a menu from the Clipper Restaurant dated 1871 to 1884 lists Hamburg beefsteak for 10 cents, the same price as stewed mutton, tripe, or salmon. A tenderloin steak was 20 cents. 

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56926/history-hamburger

Now you have learned everything you need to know about the amazing burger….I mean burgers are so popular there is even a pop song about them….

For full disclosure….while I truly enjoy a big thick burger today I will be grilling a couple of tenderloins with baked potato and a salad.

Enjoy your day and have a burger life will look so much more bright.

As always….Be Well and Be Safe….

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