HAMBURGER CITY
In this the year of our Bicentennial, the only gift a true patriot should even consider giving is a burger. After all, what's more American than the hamburger? Apple pies? Who's got the time to mess with that? The hot dog? It might be Freudian, but this country definitely prefers patties over wieners between its buns.
HAMBURGER CITY
MARTY FISCHHOFF
In this the year of our Bicentennial, the only gift a true patriot should even consider giving is a burger. After all, what's more American than the hamburger? Apple pies? Who's got the time to mess with that? The hot dog? It might be Freudian, but this country definitely prefers patties over wieners between its buns. America was nurtured on the hamburger, and that's no flight of journalistic fancy. I've got facts to back me up.
I did a little research on our friend the hamburger. In 1973, the latest statistics available, the United States slaughtered 34 billion heads of cattle, producing 21 billion pounds of carcass meat and lard. From all this flesh, some 1.5 billion pounds of hamburger were prepared and processed under federal inspection.