Reply #5: Hogwash, you lyin' Yankee! [View All]

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First of all, the hamburger is an old medieval dish, so it's a silly argument. They were even calling it Hamburger before America was a gleam in Patrick Henry's eye. There were hamburger sandwiches being served all over America, including on the menu at Delmonico's in New York from long before the Civil War.

But, in terms of the modern American hamburger, meaning a hamburger on a bun with something approaching the modern American style, Athens was making them half a decade before that silly little snot-nosed pub in New Haven even claims they started them. That's assuming that Louis's claim that they were selling them in 1895 is even true--it's not verified, and they weren't calling them hamburgers until years after that, when they made up some goofy story that sailors from Hamburg named it.

Next you Yankees will be trying to claim you invented hockey! Okay... well, yeah, the South didn't invent that one...