Five Random Facts for National Cheeseburger Day
Five Random Facts for National Cheeseburger Day
It’s National Cheeseburger Day! Here are some cheeseburger facts for you . . .
1. The cheeseburger might have been invented by mistake in Pasadena, California, in 1924. The story goes that a 16-year-old fry cook named Lionel Sternberger was working at his dad’s hamburger stand just outside of L.A. when he burned one side of a burger . . . so he covered it with cheese to hide it.
2. We prefer American cheese over cheddar . . . but it’s close. According to a recent survey of 2,000 Americans, 66% like American cheese on their burger, while 65% like cheddar. Swiss is a distant third with 43%.
Pepper Jack is next at 40%, followed by provolone at 31%. (People could like more than one cheese, which is why the percentages add up to over 100%.)
3. We have strong opinions on where the cheese should go on a burger. The vast majority of people think cheese slices belong on top of the burger patty . . .
So people lost their MINDS in 2017 when Google introduced a cheeseburger emoji that featured cheese BELOW the patty. The backlash was so bad Google changed it a month later. (Here’s the comparison.)
4. A restaurant in Michigan once made a 1,800-pound cheeseburger that cost $10,000. It used 2,000 pounds of raw meat . . . 300 pounds of cheese, tomatoes, onions, pickles, and lettuce . . . and a bun that weighed 250 pounds.
It took 16 hours to cook, and when it was all put together, it was almost three feet tall and six feet wide.
5. Jimmy Buffett’s 1978 song “Cheeseburger in Paradise” was inspired by an actual meal. He’d been forced to eat canned food and peanut butter while stuck on a boat in the Caribbean. And when he eventually made it to land, he headed to a restaurant and ordered a cheeseburger.
