Today is the day to talk burgers.
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May 28 is International Burger Day, meaning fans of grilled meat served on a bun with cheese and salad are salivating over their lunches and dinners.
But it is also a chance to settle a debate that began with a tweet from writer Thomas Baekdal.
In October, Baekdal noticed a difference between the Google and Apple burger emojis.
So how do you do you build your burger?
Meat, cheese, lettuce then tomato or cheese, meat, tomato and lettuce?
Not that this helps settle the debate but mine goes lettuce, tomato, meat, cheese. Delicious.
Since then it has been reported that Google has amended its burger emoji to meat, cheese, tomato then lettuce.
A brief history of burgers
There is some contention about where “hamburgers” were first created but the earliest recipe comes from Germany.
The Hamburgh sausage” was included in a recipe book in 1758 and was served “roasted with toasted bread under it.”
In America the first claim on a hamburger being created is in 1900 by Danish immigrant Louis Lassen in New Haven Conneticut.
Charlie Nagreen claimed to put a meatball between two slices of bread in 1885 . It is now known as a “Hamburger Charlie”.
Other claims on the first burger come from Otto Kuase, Oscar Bilby, Frank and Charles Menches and Fletcher Davis.
But it doesn’t really matter where burgers came from as long as they still taste great!