We all know that the pace of American life is very fast, so fast food has emerged accordingly. American fast food chains exist all over the world. The most well-known is the McDonald's fast food chain, which provides fast food such as: hamburgers, roast beef, steak, ham, sandwiches, KFC, potato chips, ice cream, and Coca-Cola. What is your impression of American fast food and fast food culture?
Whether it is in China or the United States, the most ubiquitous foreign fast food is McDonald's. With the development in recent years, McDonald's has entered every city in China. Almost everyone around the world knows that the golden "M" is the logo of the American fast food restaurant McDonald's. Hamburgers are the main food provided by McDonald's, but not everyone knows the origin of the hamburger.
"Hamburg" is the name of a city in Germany. When Hamburg businessmen went to northern Russia to do business, they tasted raw beef mince mixed with salt, pepper, and onion juice and brought this method back. Hamburg women Slightly modified to make a flat round pan-fried patty, called "hamburger steak". "Hamburg steak" came to the United States with German immigrants around 1830. During the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the delicious and convenient method of sandwiching it in a bun appeared for the first time, and it was warmly welcomed by everyone.
When the first McDonald’s store opened in San Bernardino, California, in 1949, hamburgers were the main food served. More than ten years later, as McDonald’s chain stores opened one after another, it became popular in the United States. Although McDonald's now sells more than one billion hamburgers around the world every quarter, people in the United States where I live do not always go to McDonald's to eat hamburgers. There are many fast food chains with the same business model, such as Carls Jr, Burger King, In N Out, Jack in the Box, Wendy's, etc. Students like to visit In N Out most because the food ingredients in this store are the freshest, and even the potato chips are freshly cut.
Hot dogs, another representative of fast food, are also commonly eaten by Americans. The sausage in the long bun is also from Germany and is called Frankfurter bratwurst. Frankfurters have been sold in the United States since the 1860s, but they are called Dachshund Sausages because they resemble a long-bodied, short-legged German dog. The most popular place for sausages is at baseball games. Vendors carry wooden boxes containing sausages kept warm with hot water and sell them along the rows of seats. People buy them and eat them sandwiched in long bread.
In 1906, after watching the scene of selling sausages at a baseball game, cartoonist Ted drew a cartoon: a German dachshund holding a parasol and lying in a long bun, burning hot The sun made it sweat all over, and there were vendors shouting next to it, but he couldn't remember how to spell this long word, so he had an idea and wrote it as Hot Dog. The cartoon was published in the newspaper the next day, and the old Americans who were very efficient in doing things liked this name very much. "Hot dog" soon became popular as the special name for this long-bread sausage-stuffed fast food.
According to statistics, Americans eat out four to five times a week on average. In addition to fast food restaurants, people have many choices, ranging from pizza, buffets, and steak dinners, depending on different occasions and needs. You can choose from a variety of restaurants such as Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. The immigrant characteristics of the food culture are very obvious here.
Hamburgers and hot dogs are not only fast food but also a representative of American culture. They are simple, convenient, delicious and cheap. However, more and more people are paying attention to dietary health issues. Nutritionists warn that hamburgers and hot dogs, which are high in fat and calories, should be eaten less or not at all. This household food is facing new challenges. In any case, people are paying more and more attention to the correct way of eating, and safe eating will definitely become the mainstream of diet in the future.
And these fast food foods have also become healthier and more delicious in the ingredients from the original high-fat and high-calorie ingredients. I believe that in the near future, people will no longer always call fast food "junk" food.