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a fistful of cow engineered to make grown adults forget every diet they've sworn to
means a sandwich built around a flat patty of ground meat (usually beef) tucked into a split round bun, often dressed with cheese, lettuce, and sauce.
from A clipping of "hamburger," which points back to Hamburg, the German port city — the original "Hamburg steak" was minced beef said to have crossed the Atlantic with German immigrants. The funny twist: people misread "ham-burger" as "ham + burger," so "burger" got cut loose as its own word. That false split then bred a whole litter of offspring — cheeseburger, veggieburger, fishburger — none of which contain a scrap of ham.
- name origin
- named for Hamburg, Germany, not ham
- scale
- Americans eat about 50 billion yearly
- world record
- heaviest topped 3,000 pounds, cheese included
- lab grown
- first cultured burger cost $330,000 in 2013
- moon connection
- McDonald's once trademarked a McMoon for space
whopper — burger king's signature flame-grilled burger, introduced 1954, sold in 100+ countries
big mac — mcdonald's two all-beef patties special sauce burger, introduced 1968, iconic mcdonald's item
five guys burger — customizable burger chain founded 1986 in virginia, now 1,500+ locations worldwide
shake shack burger — premium burger chain founded 2004 in madison square park, nyc, uses angus beef