King Hamburger

The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut, USA, in 1895 by an American chef called Louis Lassen. Louis called them "hamburgers" because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hamburg in Germany. Hamburgers became a favourite food in America in the early part of the twentieth century. Their popularity grew even more after the Second World War, when they were being bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food to family meals. In 1948 two brothers, Dick and Mac McDonald, opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Since then over 25000 McDonald`s restaurants have been opened worldwide and now 35 million McDonald`s hamburgers are eaten every day in more than 110 countries from India to the Arctic Circle.