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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 976700" data-attributes="member: 1246">The Menches brothers ran out of pork patties at their sandwich stand at 1885 Errie County Fai...they substituted beef.It is said also that Charlie Nagreen decided to flatten a meatball and put it on bread at another fair that same year.  Fletcher Davis is said to have made a splash at the St Louis World Fair of 1904 by serving ground beef on bread.The explanation we like best - because you can still go there and taste it - revolves around what is now a brick shack in New Haven, Conn. called Louis' Lunch.  Back in 1900, food vendor Louis Lassen made use of leftover steak trimmings by forming them into  beef patties which he then cooked and put between slices of toast. From Parade Magazine.                                              ********************1885 - Charlie Nagreen of Seymour, Wisconsin, at the age of 15, sold hamburgers from his ox-drawn food stand at the Outagamie County Fair. He went to the Outagamie County Fair and set up a stand selling meatballs. Business wasn't good and he quickly realized that it was because meatballs were too difficult to eat while strolling around the fair. In a flash of innovation, he flattened the meatballs, placed them between two slices of bread and called his new creation a hamburger. He was known to many as "Hamburger Charlie." He returned to sell hamburgers at the fair every year until his death in 1951, and he would entertain people with guitar and mouth organ and his jingle: Hamburgers, hamburgers, hamburgers hot; onions in the middle, pickle on top. Makes your lips go flippity flop. The town of Seymour, Wisconsin is so certain about this claim that they even have a Hamburger Hall of Fame that they built as a tribute to Charlie Nagreen and the legacy he left behind. The town claims to be "Home of the Hamburger" and holds an annual Burger Festival on the first Saturday of August each year. Events include a ketchup slide, bun toss, and hamburger-eating contest, as well as the "world's largest hamburger parade." On May 9, 2007, members of the Wisconsin legislature declared Seymour, Wisconsin, as the home of the hamburger: Whereas, Seymour, Wisconsin, is the right home of the hamburger; and, Whereas, other accounts of the origination of the hamburger trace back only so far as the 1880s, while Seymour’s claim can be traced to 1885; and, Whereas, Charles Nagreen, also known as Hamburger Charlie, of Seymour, Wisconsin, began calling ground beef patties in a bun “hamburgers” in 1885; and, Whereas, Hamburger Charlie first sold his world-famous hamburgers at age 15 at the first Seymour Fair in 1885, and later at the Brown and Outagamie county fairs; and, Whereas, Hamburger Charlie employed as many as eight people at his famous hamburger tent, selling 150 pounds of hamburgers on some days; and, Whereas, the hamburger has since become an American classic, enjoyed by families and backyard grills alike; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the members of the Wisconsin legislature declare Seymour, Wisconsin, the Original Home of the Hamburger. Where's your story?</blockquote>

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