When we hear about hamburgers, one of the first words in the associative series is “America”, even despite the German name of the dish (in honor of the city of Hamburg). Along with french fries, it is considered the main course of fast food outlets. Having lost some popularity, in recent years he has been rapidly returning to his position. What can I say if such famous chefs as Bobby Flea, who launched his own franchise Bobby’s Burger Palace, operating in the northeastern United States of America, begin to cook it. In the end, the hamburger has earned its popularity, because it is incredibly tasty!
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The most expensive burger in the world
As a rule, ordering a hamburger in a restaurant, you will not get a big bill. The average bill for a burger, cola and french fries in a fast food restaurant is approximately 500 rubles. Although in recent years, burgers began to be served in expensive restaurants, which completely changed the opinion of hamburgers as cheap food. This is due to the addition of ingredients such as foie gras, shrimps, lobsters, as well as sauces prepared using elite “Copy Luwak” coffee beans (the process of making them is quite original: coffee beans are fed to musangs, “picked up” after passing them) on the digestive system of animals).
In these restaurants, the rivalry is considered not so much the taste of a hamburger as its high cost, calculated in certain establishments by hundreds of dollars. Although it is unlikely that anyone will be able to "beat" the hamburger sold at Usocial.net. Its cost was $ 10 thousand, and the money went to charity. The dish included truffles, marbled beef and jamon made from black pigs from Iberia. It is noteworthy that Iberian pigs feed only on selected acorns. The hamburger was wrapped in a 24-carat piece of pure gold.
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The world's worst burger
Even the most ardent followers of fast food will not call burgers healthy food. According to international health standards, we should not eat more than 85 grams of meat per serving, which is equivalent in size to a card deck. Although the cooks of a restaurant in Vegas clearly do not consider it necessary to comply with these standards. The restaurant is called Heart Attack Grill, which means “Heart Attack Grill” in English, and the owner calls the menu of the restaurant nothing more than “diet pornography”. It includes dishes that cause irreparable harm to the cardiovascular system, for example, grilled potatoes fried in undiluted pork fat or milk shakes based on milk fats. The main dish of the institution is considered the highest-calorie hamburger and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. It is called the “quarter coronary bypass surgery” and consists of eight large slices of cheese, several tablespoons of pork fat, caramelized onion rings (20 pieces), fried in fat, tomatoes, a large amount of mayonnaise with ketchup, rolls, mustard and four cutlets of 227 grams each . The calorie content of the hamburger is terrifying - the dish contains almost 10,000 kilocalories.
Sexual “nurses” are working as waitresses in the restaurant, hinting at providing first aid, if necessary. If you weigh more than 158 kilograms, in “Heart Attack” you will be fed for free. Customers who have not mastered an entire hamburger are subjected to playful spanking by waitresses.
Most restaurant customers actually suffered heart attacks, like the unofficial mascot of John Aleman. He visited the restaurant every day and died nearby at a public transport stop from a heart attack. Another visitor, the Blair River, died at the age of 29 from pneumonia. The probable cause of the body's failure to fight the disease, doctors called obesity - with a two-meter growth, the guy weighed more than 250 kilograms. Nevertheless, the “Heart Attack Grill” lives and lives, earning huge profits, and its location is even noted in tourist digests as a suitable place for lunch.
By the way, on our site most-beauty.ru there is an interesting article about some unusual finds found in fast food dishes.
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The story of Oprah Winfrey with beef
Perhaps there is no such person, unless he owns a nuclear arsenal and an impressive army that has a greater impact on the culture of Americans than Oprah Winfrey. Its influence spans entire industries, for example, in the mid-90s, she hosted a show where she reviewed books, and everyone who received a positive mark from Winfrey's novel became a hit. The next endeavor, dated 1996, was a bit more scandalous.
Discussing beef in one of the episodes of her program, she stated that she refused to eat hamburgers with beef meat. In the blink of an eye, the cost of beef dropped to a record low, and Texas herders even sued, demanding more than $ 10 million. They motivated their claims with the alleged intentional defamation of livestock by Oprah. The lawsuit lasted about four years, and its result was the complete removal of charges from the shocking host. The only one who benefited from this business was Winfrey’s spiritual mentor Phil McGraw - he was able to launch his own program, where he distributes amateurish advice on any topic. Oprah Winfrey continued to adhere to her opinion - the taboo on hamburgers.
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"Monopoly" scandal
The hamburger is associated not only with the United States, but also with McDonald's, who ranks first in the purchase of beef in America. The popularity of this fast food restaurant is not so much in delicious food as in competent marketing moves. True, one of them was marred by scandal. In an effort to attract customers, the restaurant owners launched a “monopoly” - each buyer received a game card with a prize, for example, an additional big poppy or ice cream. There were more serious prizes (money, cars, etc.), which, inexplicably, did not reach ordinary customers.
The culprit in the fraud was Jerome P. Jacobson, who holds the position of chief of security at Simon Marketing, which took charge of all the organizational issues of the “monopoly”. For several years, he distributed all the "greasy" cards between his accomplices, although one went to good deeds. This is a million-dollar card presented to the St. Jude Hospital. Maybe Jacobson would have left her as well, but he understood that with such a big win checks would begin, deciding to give him to the hospital. When the fraud was revealed, McDonald's management did not demand a check for a million back. In total, over the period of the "deal", the scammers stole $ 24 million. As for the "monopoly" - it is still held, though the chance to win a million dollars is one in three billion.
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The world's first burger
A hamburger was invented not so long ago as you might think. Among the many claimants for authorship, it is worth highlighting Louis Lassen, the owner of a cafe in New Haven, in the US state of Kentucky. He prepared sandwiches for workers and since 1900 began to cover the beef patty with bread on both sides. After 118 years, his relatives still honor traditions. Their burgers are served in the Louis ’Lunch restaurant, with only“ authentic ”products among the ingredients: onions, tomatoes, cream cheese, classic bread and meatballs cooked in cast-iron ovens in an upright position. There are no sauces — mayonnaise and ketchup — at all, and if students from Yale carry it quietly, they are politely but persistently asked to leave the institution.
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Vegetarian Burgers
Vegan hamburgers are not uncommon these days. They are especially common in Indian fast food restaurants, where the Muslim population does not eat pork, and Hindu followers do not eat beef. Therefore, if you are in India, and you want to try a hamburger with a beef patty, then the mission may not be feasible, even at McDonald's.
However, not all vegetable burgers are so useful for the body. Hamburgers for vegans are thought to be preferable to beef burgers, but their main ingredient, soy, can be quite dangerous. It's all about the content of hexane, a substance produced by gasoline. It not only pollutes the environment, but can be life threatening. So, an employee of the American giant Apple, died of substance vapor, using it to clean displays.
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Meat Perfume
It has long been known that perfume manufacturers often use strange ingredients to create different flavors. For example, it can be beaver anal glands (castoreum), hardened excrement of Cape Damans (giraceum) or secretion of sperm whale digestive tract (ambergris). All the more amazing is the wonderful smell of these perfumes. But there are exceptions, in the form of perfumes from a chain of fast food restaurants Burger King. Flame eau de toilette production was launched 10 years ago, as the name suggests, it is a flame aroma with notes of fried meat. Perfume can be ordered on a separate site, at $ 4 per bottle. They decided to follow the example of Burger King at Pizza Hut, releasing their cologne with the smell of pizza with spices.
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Slaughter of cows (not for impressionable)
Absorbing another hamburger with a juicy beef patty, we try not to think about how it is made. But to satisfy consumer demand, thousands of cows are slaughtered every year. The slaughtering process is quite cruel: they stun the cattle (they used to use a hammer, now they use a special pistol with a chuck that strikes the head of a cow), hang it upside down and cut the throat. After that, it undergoes a process of controlled decomposition. Bleeding and decomposition are necessary to soften the meat, as fresh it is quite tough.
The beef steak is probably made from whole tenderloin, although there are times when the meat of various parts of the carcass is combined. As for the minced meat for cutlets used in hamburgers - not everything is clear here. Firstly, it is not made from the best part of the carcass, and secondly, producers mix parts of many cows into one mass. According to tests, a classic hamburger with an average weight of just over 100 grams can contain pieces of meat from 55 different cows. In some cases, there are cutlets of 100 cow carcasses. Such stuffing can be hazardous to health, as "assorted" of several animals increases the percentage of risk of contracting Escherichia coli.
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Laboratory "meat"
Most vegans refuse meat according to moral principles, and not because of a rejection of taste. In search of a substitute for meat, vegetarians turn to soy, which, as you understand, is not entirely useful. Scientists promise to solve the problem by "growing" meat in the laboratory. This will help not only vegetarians, but also the environment, since cattle breeding is a big burden on the environment, especially against the backdrop of an increase in the world's population. According to estimates by Stanford University employees, the livestock industry occupies about ¼ of the land, and also produces 1/5 of the greenhouse gases that pollute the atmosphere.
A doctor of the Dutch University from the city of Maastricht, Dr. Mark Post, can make a difference. Using stem cells from cows and pigs, he was able to get a nutritious cutlet weighing about 150 grams. The doctor uses textiles to stimulate the growth of meat "muscles" and prevent their death. Despite the fact that the meat grown in vitro does not have a flavor (due to the complete lack of fat), Post states that its taste is no different from the original. Of course, growing meat in the laboratory is a rather important process for vegans, but scientists have completely different goals, hoping in the future to "produce" organs for sick people. The task is not an easy one, but the doctors are optimistic, even amid the lamentations of moralists who claim that the doctors think they are gods.
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Eternal hamburger
Many opponents of hamburgers repeatedly conducted experiments in which the dish was left on the street. After several days, or even weeks, the burger was practically unchanged, there were no signs of decomposition or mold on it. This suggests that the dish is filled with preservatives that mummify a hamburger. It is unlikely that such an amount of "excess" substances makes food healthy.
In fact, the situation is not so terrible, because the dehydration process occurs before the start of the rotting process, which determines its initial state even after several days in the fresh air. Try to leave a big burger on the street, and it will become moldy. Before starting the experiment, make sure that the view of the dried hamburgers does not injure the psyche of your loved ones.