Fast food meals

Usage examples of hamburgers.

I also thank Peter Stearns for believing in my topic, reading many pages about hamburgers, and giving me both encouragement and crucial assistance.

First, millions of Americans consuming millions of hamburgers each day caused a major increase in beef production.

White Castle started the massive consumption of hamburgers that continues unabated to the present.

Its most significant contribution to American culture is that hamburgers came to be closely identified with American culture.

In 1921, Billy Ingram promoted his hamburgers to an American society whose many subgroups were still deeply entrenched in and divided by their original ethnic traditions.

White Castle and the formative years for fast-food hamburgers exist only as footnotes in scholarly works either praising or criticizing Ray Kroc and his golden arches.

It also supplied America with a distinctive ethnic symbol: people the world over now readily identify fast-food hamburgers as the food of Americans.

Rather, its accomplishment was persuading the public that hamburgers were an acceptable mainstream food and then marketing them to the entire nation.

Legitimizing hamburgers, however, was not an easy task, and they did not gain a great following during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Appearing about the same time as hot dogs, hamburgers were slow to achieve popularity.

In addition to fairs, hamburgers were sold from the lunch carts outside factories, although sausages were preferred.

Fair concessionaire Frank Menches is also said to be the founder of hamburgers, first serving them at the Akron, Ohio, County Fair in 1892.

Whereas in 1920, fast food as we know it today did not exist, by 1930, fast-food restaurants already dotted urban neighborhoods and highways across America, selling millions of hamburgers annually.

Americans soon began craving White Castle-style fast-food hamburgers, and by the end of the decade they were a staple of the American diet.

Anderson opened his hamburger stand on the morning of November 16, and business was so brisk that he quickly sold out all his hamburgers at five cents each.