12420

Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pennsylvania has offered a 6 pound hamburger, named Ye Olde 96er (6 pounds = 96 ounces) since 1998. It comes garnished with 2 whole tomatoes, 1/2 head of lettuce, 12 slices of American cheese, a cup of peppers, 2 whole onions, plus large quantities of mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard. No one has been able to finish one.

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12421

The Hamburger hall of fame is located in Seymour, Wisconsin.

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12422

HOT DOGS

Nathan Handwerker started his own Coney Island boardwalk business in 1916 ('Nathan's') to sell hot dogs for a nickel. Reportedly this was on the advice of a singing waiter and his piano player, Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante.

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12423

Americans eat more than 16 billion hot dogs each year.

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12424

George J. French introduced his French's mustard in 1904, the same year that the hot dog was introduced to America at the St. Louis World's Fair.

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12425

Hot dogs or frankfurters, are usually said to have originated in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany around 1484. Some claim it originated in Coburg, Germany and was created by butcher Johann Georghehner in the 1600, and Vienna also claims to be the origin.

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12426

The hot dog on a bun Americans are most familiar with, also has more than one story as to where it was first served. The most common story is that they were originally sold from pushcarts on the streets of New York City during the 1860s.

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Another story has 2 steps: They were a hit wrapped in paper at the 1886 Colombian Exposition in Chicago, and in 1904 at the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition where they were probably first served in a bun (still called frankfurters).
What we do know for sure is that they were popularized as "red hots" in New York by Harry M. Stevens, a vendor at the Polo Grounds (some say Yankee Stadium). And T.A. Dorgan, a cartoonist named them when he drew one as a dachshund on an elongated bun around 1906 and called it a "hot dog."

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12428

President Franklin D. Roosevelt served hot dogs to King George VI of England during his 1939 visit to the United States.

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12429

Hush Puppies

A Southern U.S. specialty consisting of balls of cornmeal batter, seasoned with chopped onion, garlic, etc. and fried. The name supposedly originated when Southern hunters were gathered about the fire to cook the evening meal, and the dogs would start barking and begging for food. The cook would drop bits of corn meal batter and toss them to the hungry dogs with the admonition, 'hush, puppy!'"

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12430

Hot Fudge Sundae

The Hot Fudge Sundae was created in 1906 at C.C. Browns, a new ice cream parlor on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

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12431

HUNGRY MAN DINNERS

American financier and philanthropist Diamond Jim Brady was known to eat 6 or 7 giant lobsters, dozens of oysters, clams and crabs, 2 ducks, steak and desserts at a single sitting. George Rector, a New York restaurateur said he was "the best twenty-five customers I ever had." Diamond Jim was also known to eat 8 steaks at one meal!

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12432

CAMPBELL’S SOUP

The colors of Campbell's Soup labels, red and white, come from the colors of the Cornell University football team.

Campbell Soup Company started out as a canning company in New Jersey in 1869. It was founded by an icebox maker (Abram Anderson) and a fruit merchant (Joseph Campbell). Later, Arthur Dorrance replaced Anderson, and it was a nephew of Dorrance, chemist John, who invented condensed soup in 1897. This gave the company a decided advantage over competitors because shipping costs were much reduced, which enabled it to become one of the first food companies to have national distribution. The soups won a gold medal at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and the medal has been on the label since then.

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12433

DAIRY QUEEN

The first Dairy Queen opened in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois. By 1960 there were 3,000 Dairy Queens in 12 countries. Hamburgers and hot dogs were added to the menu at some outlets beginning in 1957, in Georgia.

However, the actual first sale of the soft frozen dairy product took place on August 4, 1938, when the father and son founders ran a trial sale at a friend's ice cream store. They sold over 1,600 portions at 10 cents each, in only two hours.

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12434

Dr Pepper

Dr Pepper was invented in Waco, Texas in 1885, at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store, probably by Charles Alderton, a young pharmacist working there. It became known nationally, along with hamburgers and hot dogs on buns, and ice cream cones, at the 1904 World's Fair Exposition in St. Louis.

There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper, it was dropped from the name in the 1950s. There is no record of how the name came about, and the company museum has collected more than a dozen different stories of the name's origin.

Dr Pepper is the oldest major soft drink manufacturer in the United States.

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