Fast food is the term given to many items that can be prepared and served quickly. In the United States, a typical fast food meal is a hamburger fruits and a drink.
Nearly everyone eats hamburgers. Hamburger advertising is everywhere. In some downtown areas, there are different hamburger restaurants on one intersection.
The hamburger’s popularity comes in part from its convenience and in part from successful marketing techniques, but also from its taste.
According to US Department of Agriculture: Hamburger shall consist of chopped fresh and/or frozen beef with or without the addition of beef fat as such and/or seasoning, shall not contain more than 30 percent fat and shall not contain added water, phosphate, binders or extenders.
It is typically served in a bread roll. By strict definition, the true hamburger is a cooked ground beef patty served in a bun.
Back in the days of its origins, the beef was often mixed with suet to make it juicer, and sometime chopped onions, onion juice or garlic was added for flavor.
The word hamburger is thought to come from Hamburg, Germany. It stared with tradition of putting roast pork in a roll.
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