Cheese burger
A cheeseburger is a hamburger that also contains a slice of cheese .
The 16-year-old Lionel Sternberger is named as the "inventor" of the cheeseburger. He is said to have tried a hamburger with a slice of cheese in his father's restaurant in Pasadena , California in 1924 or 1926 . Other restaurants claim the "invention" for themselves. The first written evidence comes from a menu at O'Dell's restaurant in Los Angeles in 1928. The trademark rights to the name "Cheeseburger" were granted in 1935 to Louis Ballast, who owned a drive-in restaurant called Humpty Dumpty Drive-in Denver , Colorado .
In Germany, the term "cheeseburger" was first used in 1947 for a hamburger topped with cheese.
There are now cheeseburgers that have several slices of cheese and grilled meat slices. Such cheeseburgers are called "double cheeseburgers" or "triple cheeseburgers". Many cheeseburgers of this type are also topped with bacon ('bacon cheese'), which is why large cheeseburgers in the USA are often referred to as bacon triple cheeseburger .
A special type of cheeseburger is the so-called juicy lucy . Here the cheese, similar to cordon bleu , is incorporated into the meat, which is then grilled until the cheese melts.
Well-known cheeseburger variants
Well-known cheeseburger variants include the Big Mac from McDonald’s and the Big King from Burger King .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Were Cheeseburgers Invented in Pasadena? , Article on the website of the TV channel KCET. Retrieved April 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Old Menus Tell the History of Hamburgers in LA , article in Metropolitan News. Retrieved April 13, 2015 .
