The hamburger and the hot dog are every day fast food items that are sold in many countries around the world,particularly the United States. Even today, the origins of these foods remain uncertain.
The word “hamburger” comes from the German city of Hamburg, where the food first became popular. Some people believe that German immigrants then brought the hamburger to the United States in the nine teenth century, while others say that it was invented by Charlie Nagreen at the Outagamie County Fair in Seymour, Wisconsin, in 1885. Nagreen supposedly sold fried meatballs at the fair, but his customers had trouble carrying them and so he flattened them inside a bun and called them hamburgers. Meanwhile,an establishment called Louis’ Lunch in New Haven,Connecticut, also claims to have invented the hamburger. The popular view, however, is that the first proper hamburgers in buns were made in 1904 at the St Louis World’s Fair Despite the origins of the hamburger, it became world renowned in the 1950s with the opening of the fast food chain McDonald’s.
Like the hamburger, the hot dog is said to have originated at the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair, when a Bavarian named Anton Feuchtwanger apparently lent his customers gloves with which to hold hot sausages. When the gloves weren’t returned, he employed his brother—a baker—to provide buns instead
Another theory is that hot dogs were invented by Harry Stevens at the New York Polo Grounds in 1901, when, on a cold day, he bought dachshund sausages and sold them inwarm buns to the New York Giants fans. A sports cartoonist on the day, Tad Dorgan, drew a cartoon of it and, unsure how to spell “dachshund,” wrote, “Hot dog!” While this is commonly believed to be where the term originated, similar items were sold in Germany well before that time, and it issaid that St Louis Browns owner Chris von der Ahe soldthem at his baseball park in 1880.
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