Hamburger

Etymology

The word hamburger comes from the German hamburger which is the name designating the inhabitants of the town of Hamburg, Hamburg in German: Hamburgers. Indeed, it is current in Germany to name the culinary specialities according to the town of origin. Also we have Berliner (filled fritter of jam), Frankfurter (become the Hot dog), and Hamburger. It would seem that the meat used in the beginnings was roast pig (the Hamburgers were famous eaters of pig), and that it was then replaced by chopped ox. The receipt was probably imported on the American ground by the German sailors during the XIXe century.

Today, in English (at least in American English), the word hamburger indicates the sandwich as much as hâché steak. Let us recall finally that there thus does not exist any relationship between hamburger and the ham ( ham , in English).

World presence

The hamburger is known today by the world, via in particular different Multinationale S American and European from Fast-food industry.

However, popularity planetary omnipresence, which often made it regard as a symbol of the bringing together of the lifestyles under the effect of the Mondialisation, the hamburger seems from now on very largely détrôné by the Pizza, whose distributers knew to play, inter alia, on the phenomenon of the fast delivery.

The hamburger is often associated with the idea of Malbouffe by its detractors.

Dietetic aspect

Like the Hot dog (another German speciality), it is very rich in Calorie S.

Certain chains of fast-food industry, selling this type of product, were seen prosecuting by consumers become obese, sick, or by victims' families of excessive consumption of these products.

The composition of a hamburger of fast-food is more complex than the original receipt.

For example, here the composition partial of a hamburger at McDonald's:

Bread;
Meat of Ox in the form of Ground beef;
Water, salt, Soya;
sugars: Sugar reversed, Saccharose, Dextrose;
emulsifying: E 472e (esters monoacetyltartric and diacethyltartric of mono and diglycérides of fatty-acids), E 471 (mono and diglycérides of fatty-acids), E 481 (sodium stéaroyl-2-lactylate)
Various: E 300 (ascorbic acid = vitamin C), E 516 (calcium gypsum sulfate), E 262, E 210, E 327 (calcium Lactate)…

To refer to the German article for the complete listing, to also see the article on the food additive .

Anecdotes

the November 13rd 2004 Takeru Kobayashi, holder of the world records of the hamburger big eater, beat its own record by swallowing 69 hamburgers in 8 minutes during an organized contest with Chattanooga, in the Tennessee. This Japan 26 year old board and 60 kg preserved its title without problem: the second of this contest, American the Sonya Thomas, finishing with 46 hamburgers with its credit.

a Restaurant of Pennsylvania, the Denny' S Beer Barrel Pub , proposes with its customers a hamburger of 6,75 kg what constitutes the current record on the matter. This Belly Buster is composed of 4,7 kg Bœuf, 25 sections of Fromage, a Laitue, three Tomate S, two Oignon S, and of Sauce S in quantities proportional.

See too

Cheeseburger

Simple: Hamburger Zh-yue: 漢堡包

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