When sitting in KFC or McDonald's restaurant, children's childish voices can often be heard.

"Why are hamburgers called hamburgers?"

"Who invented hamburgers?"

"How are hamburgers made?"

These questions can't help pulling me back to my college days.

At the beginning, I asked Miss KFC with these questions.

In my sophomore year, the person in charge of KFC Hangzhou came to me and asked me to help them recruit campus interns.

at that time, I was the minister of the work-study and entrepreneurship department of the student union of our school, responsible for the work-study program and student entrepreneurship affairs of the whole university.

I recruited more than 2 interested students.

One night, the person in charge of KFC came to our university for an interview with five or six store managers, and finally, 46 students were identified.

When I left, the person in charge of KFC didn't know how to thank me. I said, could you let me see the production process of KFC?

he thought about it and agreed.

The person who received me to visit KFC should be their official in charge of public relations. She is a younger sister who loves to laugh and is very friendly.

"Why is hamburger called hamburger? Was it invented by people in Hamburg, Germany?"

like children, I asked this question first.

"You're half right, Zheng Xiaota," said Miss KFC. "To be precise, it's the meat in the hamburger, which was invented by Hamburg people in Germany."

it's like this.

Many people think that the English name of Hamburger is Hamburg, and the second largest city in Germany is Hamburg, and they think that hamburgers were invented by Germans.

Actually, the inventor of hamburger is American, and hamburger appeared in America in the late 19th century.

As for which American invented the hamburger, it has been debated in the United States for decades.

For the huge American fast food industry, winning the status of inventor can save tens of millions of dollars in publicity expenses.

but what is certain is that it is not KFC or McDonald's.

"To everyone's surprise, the name of hamburger comes from hamburger beef, which is the meat in it." Miss KFC handed me a glass of water.

In the 19th century, German hamburger beef, as an expensive and delicious food, was famous all over the world.

Hamburg beef, there is a way to chop the meat, season it and press it into patties. The hamburger beef patties made in this way are widely popular in Europe and North America.

At first, Americans invented hamburgers by putting hamburger patties between two pieces of bread and eating them. Over time, the name of hamburger patties became the name of hamburger.

"The relationship between hamburgers and Hamburg, Germany, is the relationship between a piece of beef", and my little sister winked at me.

"Speaking of it, Zheng Xiaota, you may be surprised that hamburgers are born out of sandwiches," continued Miss Jie.

Hamburger is actually a kind of sandwich. Hamburger is also called hamburger sandwich.

two pieces of bread with meat, sausage, cheese or vegetables can be regarded as sandwiches, including hot dogs.

(For an article about sandwiches, please read this article "How to change from a piece of bread to a" sandwich "?

In the 18th century, when the Earl of Sandwich in England was playing bridge, he accidentally invented sandwiches, which quickly swept across Europe and America and became a household food.

in the late 19th century, after a large-scale railway construction, the United States set off the second industrial revolution in the world, and factories all over the world mushroomed.

Workers go to work and work at night, and they need food to satisfy their hunger. Many vendors pushing dining cars have been born.

They stand at the factory gate and sell food, including hamburgers, sandwiches and sausages.

"I don't know which vendor or worker put hamburger patties between two slices of bread in a sandwich, and the prototype of hamburger began to appear. To be precise, hamburger was invented at this time."

Miss KFC paused and said, "At the same time, hot dogs were invented."

Then, Miss KFC asked me to put on my work clothes and showed me around the kitchen of KFC.

I don't know if you have seen a movie, released in 216, called The Great Entrepreneur, which tells the story of the founder of McDonald's.

KFC's hamburgers, French fries, fried chicken, etc., the production process of these foods, as described in it, the whole process runs in an assembly line, one ring is buckled, and sometimes the drip sounds and sometimes the signal lights flash.

The whole production process has opened my eyes to the marketing major.

In KFC, making hamburgers is also very simple.

The bread on the upper and lower floors is finished and delivered. Before making hamburgers, the inside side will be burnt on the machine.

the vegetables are transported in cold storage, and only need to be cut on site.

Chicken nuggets in hamburgers are frozen semi-finished products, which need to be fried when they are made, and roast chicken legs in Orleans, which are also pickled semi-finished products, which are baked in the oven and then put into hamburgers.

Then there is the process of making hamburgers. It looks more fun, but it reflects the high efficiency of American fast food.

wrapping a hamburger with paper is the other way around, starting from the top of the hamburger.

first, spread the hamburger paper on the table, then put the bread on the top of the hamburger, put it on the paper upside down, put the salad dressing, lettuce slices and chicken pieces in order, and then put the bread (at the bottom).

Then, fold the two corners of the hamburger paper forward to wrap the hamburger, and fold the other two corners in the same way. Finally, turn them over and put them in the incubator behind the front desk.

Although many parts may involve trade secrets, my younger sister didn't let me see them, but these standardized operation procedures have greatly shocked me.

I went in for a visit for less than ten minutes. After I came out, I thought of a question.

"Why do you say that KFC's hamburgers are fake and McDonald's hamburgers are real?"

as soon as the words came out, I felt a little uneasy.

who knows, my little sister didn't feel angry at all, but smiled and said, "Zheng Xiaota, what is the basis of their statement?"

"They say that the meat in it is beef, which is a real hamburger, and KFC's chicken, which is not a real hamburger." I replied in detail.

my statement is not groundless.

until now, the menu name of chicken leg hamburger on KFC's American website is still Sandwiches, as shown below.

on the American website of McDonald's, the name of beef Hamburger is hamburger, while the name of chicken hamburger is Sandwich, as shown in the following two pictures.

Miss KFC smiled at me and shook her head helplessly, as if it were normal.

"In English, Hamburger means Hamburger beef patties and hamburger steaks. Therefore, hamburger can't be used to refer to chicken hamburgers and other hamburgers on the website of American headquarters."

"For example, the crispy chicken leg burger can only be called Crispy Colonel Sandwich, which is translated into Chinese as a sandwich."

"In China, hamburger has become a broad term, which can refer to all hamburgers. Let's just say, Zheng Xiaota, the word beauty originally meant a young and beautiful girl, and now aunts and aunts can call it beauty. "

"Hamburg has been widely used in China, and Hamburger is still a specific noun in the United States."

"It's unfair to KFC if you bite the word" Wen Jue ".

My little sister's slightly angry appearance is also pretty good-looking.

"Let me treat you to KFC", and my little sister handed me a hamburger.

"At KFC, it's all chicken burgers, at McDonald's, it's beef burgers and chicken burgers, and at Dicos, there are shrimp burgers."

In fact, no matter the major multinational fast food brands, they will launch hamburgers with local characteristics according to local tastes.

"Do you know that rice burgers are made of rice, which is the same as holding sushi? McDonald's once introduced it in Hong Kong, but the response was not very good, so KFC didn't follow up."

besides chicken, beef and shrimp chops, there are other kinds of hamburgers.

Just like domestic noodles, Zhajiang Noodles, noodles with minced meat and wonton noodles are made by adding different ingredients and toppings.

Hamburgers are made of different foods, such as fish steak burger, pork burger, cheese burger, egg burger and so on.

Besides, you can add your favorite vegetables, fruits, meat, etc. in the hamburger. For example, some people in Taiwan Province like to put pineapples in the hamburger.

"Of course, you can also say that China invented hamburgers 2, years ago," my young sister said to me, cutting her hair in front of her eyes.

"hmm?" I stare big eyes.

"Chinese hamburger!"

"China's meat buns, scones with bacon, American hamburgers, hemispherical bread with chicken pieces and vegetables, are they alike?"

"Is this true?"

"what do you say? Haha! "