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Who Invented The Burger? Find a brief history and a link to easy hamburger recipes for your next burger meal.

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The history of who invented the hamburger is really quite vague, but one of the following (if not all three)can probably be thanked for creating this awesome sandwich. After the read, explore the many easy hamburger recipes for creating your next great burger meal.

"Hamburger Charlie" Nagreen: He started selling meatballs at the age of 15 at the summer fair in Seymour, Wisconsin. But, homeoftheburger.org says, "Charlie was a resourceful young man with an outgoing personality. After not experiencing much success selling the meatballs, he had an idea and located some bread. He realized people could take this meal with them if he simply smashed the meat together between two pieces of bread. He called it a "hamburger" and yes, in 1885 the burger was born at the fair in Seymour, Wisconsin."

Menches Brothers: The brothers' descendents, who now operate a small chain in Ohio named Meches Bros. claim that their great grandfather and his brother (Charles and Frank, respectively) invented the dish at an 1885 fair in Hamburg, New York. (Hamburg - sounds really close) The brothers originally sold sausages but ran out and were forced to use ground beef, which at the time was considered inferior. John Menches, in a "Business Week Story says, "Faced with nothing to sell at all, they fried [the ground beef] up, but it was too bland. My grandfather decided to put coffee, brown sugar, and some other household ingredients in it and cooked up the sandwich. My great-uncle Frank served the first sandwich, a gentleman tasted it and said, 'What do you call it?' Uncle Frank didn't really know what to call it, so he looked up and saw the banner for the Hamburg fair and said, 'This is the hamburger.' "

Louis' Lunch: This New Haven, Connecticut, burger dive claims to have invented our favorite lunch and dinner meal in 1900. From its website "One day in the year 1900 a man dashed into a small New Haven luncheonette and asked for a quick meal that he could eat on the run. Louis Lassen, the establishment's owner, hurriedly sandwiched a broiled beef patty between two slices of bread and sent the customer on his way, so the story goes, with America's first hamburger."