Where’s the beef?
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
· Filed under cooking, facts, food, healthy living, humor, interest, life, mcdonalds, meat, spring, summer, ways of life, world
HAMBURGERS
Why is it “Where’s the beef” when it should be where’s the ham?
The answer is really quite simple: because Hamburg, Germany made the first hamburgers.
However, the history of the hamburger is actually more complicated. Who actually invented the first hamburger remains a mystery.
Ranking #1 among all restaurants with 26,000 stores in 119 countries, McDonald’s serves billions of hamburgers worldwide.
Did you know:?
On average, Americans eat 3 hamburgers a week.
McDonald’s has sold 12 hamburgers for every person in the world.
60% of all sandwiches eaten are hamburgers.
Walter Anderson is the first person to invent the hamburger bun in the year of 1916.
The average American consumes about 30 pounds of hamburger a year.
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McDonalds hires more people each year than the U.S. government or any other company.
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The Hamburger Hall of Fame is located in Seymour, Wis.
Americans consumed more than 13 billion burgers in 2003.
More than seven of every ten burgers (73% or 9.6 billion) consumed in the U.S. were prepared and purchased out of the home.4
Saturday is the biggest burger day for restaurants, with 1.4 billion burgers eaten on Saturdays in 2003.
June is the biggest burger month for restaurants, with nearly 800 million (796.7 million) burgers ordered and eaten from restaurants in this month alone in 2003.
Seven out of every ten burgers that Americans ordered in commercial restaurants included cheese (73% of all burgers ordered or 5.8 billion cheeseburgers).
Hamburger (ground beef patty) is the most popular food for the grill, followed by steak and chicken.
One out of every five times Americans fire up the grill, it’s to cook a burger
CAM!! said,
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 04,05,22
what gave u the idea to write bout hamburgers!?
tarahriot said,
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 04,05,13
haha im hungry lol