McDonald's can be found everywhere in China and the United States. With the development in recent years, McDonald's has entered every city in China. Almost people all over the world know that the golden "M" is the symbol of McDonald's, an American fast food restaurant. Hamburgers are the main food provided by McDonald's, but not everyone knows the origin of hamburgers.
Hamburg is the name of a German city. Businessmen in Hamburg tasted raw beef paste mixed with salt, pepper and onion juice when doing business in northern Russia, and brought this method back. The women in Hamburg make it into a flat round fried meat pie, which is called "Hamburg steak". "Hamburg steak" came to the United States with German immigrants around 1830. 1904 During the World Expo in St. Louis, a delicious and convenient way to put it in buns appeared for the first time, which was warmly welcomed by everyone.
1949 when the first McDonald's store opened in San Bernardino, California, hamburgers were the main food supply. Ten years later, with the opening of McDonald's chain stores, it became popular in the United States. Although McDonald's sells more than one billion hamburgers worldwide every quarter, the Americans I live in don't always eat hamburgers at McDonald's. There are many fast food chain stores with the same business model, such as Carls Jr, Burger King, In N Out, Jack in the Box, Wendy's and so on. Students like to visit In N Out best, because the ingredients in this shop are the freshest, even the French fries are freshly cut.
Hot dogs, another representative of fast food, are often eaten by Americans. The sausage in the long bread is also German, and it is called wieners. Wieners has been sold in the United States since1860s, but people call it Dax sausage ("Dax sausage") because it is somewhat similar to a group of German dogs with long bodies and short legs. The most popular place for sausages is baseball games. Vendors carry wooden boxes with sausages kept warm in hot water on their shoulders and sell along the seats. People bought them and put them in long bread as snacks.
1906 cartoonist Ted drew a cartoon after watching the scene of selling sausages in the baseball field: a German dachshund was lying in a long bread with an umbrella, sweating in the scorching sun, next to the cries of vendors, but he couldn't remember how to spell this long word for a moment, so he had an idea and wrote it as a hot dog. The next day, a cartoon was published in the newspaper. The efficient American liked the name very much. "Hot dog" quickly became the special name of this long bread and sausage fast food.
According to statistics, Americans eat out four or five times a week on average. Besides fast food restaurants, people have many choices. According to different occasions and needs, they can choose various restaurants, from pizza buffet to steak dinner, to Chinese, Japanese and Indian meals. The immigrant characteristics of food culture are very obvious here.
Hamburger hot dog is both a fast food and a representative of American culture. They are simple, convenient, delicious and cheap. However, more and more people are beginning to pay attention to the health of their diet. High-fat and high-calorie hamburger hot dogs are warned by nutritionists to eat less or not, and family food faces new challenges. In any case, people pay more and more attention to the correct diet, and safe diet will surely become the mainstream of the future diet.
And these fast food have become more healthy and delicious from the original high-fat and high-heat ingredients. I believe that in the near future, people will not always call fast food "junk food".