What is a cheeseburger?
A: A cheeseburger is a hamburger topped with
cheese.
Traditionally, the slice of cheese is placed where?
A: On top of the meat patty.
When is the cheese usually added to the
cooking
hamburger patty?
A: Shortly before serving, which allows the cheese to melt.
Cheeseburgers can include variations in what?
A: Structure, ingredients and composition.
As with other hamburgers, a cheeseburger may include
what toppings?
A: Lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles,
bacon, mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard.
In fast food restaurants, the cheese used in
cheeseburgers is usually what?
A: Processed cheese.
What are common examples of cheese used for
cheeseburgers?
A: Cheddar, Swiss, mozzarella, blue cheese, and pepper jack.
What are some popular restaurants that sell
cheeseburgers?
A: McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and many more.
By the late 19th century, the vast grasslands of the
Great Plains had been opened up for what?
A: Cattle ranching.
This made it possible for many Americans to do what?
A: To consume beef almost daily.
The hamburger remains as one of what?
A: The cheapest sources of beef in America.
There are several competing claims as to who created
what?
A: The first cheeseburger.
Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the
cheeseburger in 1924 at what age?
A: The age of 16.
He was working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena,
California sandwich shop, "The Rite Spot", and did what?
A: He "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling
hamburger."
An early example of the cheeseburger appearing on a
menu is a 1928 menu for the Los Angeles restaurant O'Dell's which listed
what?
A: A cheeseburger smothered with chili for 25 cents.
Kaelin's Restaurant in Louisville,
Kentucky, said it
invented the cheeseburger in what year?
A: 1934.
One year later, a trademark for the name "cheeseburger"
was awarded to whom?
A: Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in
Denver,
Colorado.
According to Steak 'n Shake archives, the restaurant's
founder, Gus Belt, applied for what in the
1930s?
A: A trademark on the word in the 1930s.
An A&W Restaurants franchise in Lansing,
Michigan is
credited with inventing what?
A: The bacon cheeseburger in 1963, putting it on the menu after repeated
requests from the same customer.
The steamed cheeseburger, a variation almost
exclusively served in central Connecticut, is believed to have been invented
at a restaurant called what?
A: Jack's Lunch in Middletown, Connecticut, in the 1930s.
The largest cheeseburger ever made weighed how much?
A: 2,014 pounds.
What were the ingredients?
A: included "60 pounds of bacon, 50 pounds of lettuce, 50 pounds of sliced
onions, 40 pounds of pickles, and 40 pounds of cheese."
This record was set in 2012 by whom?
A: Minnesota's Black Bear Casino, smashing the previous record of 881 pounds
(400 kg).
In the United States, National Cheeseburger Day is
celebrated annually on what day?
A: September 18.
A cheeseburger may have more than one what?
A: Patty or more than one slice of cheese.
A stack of two or more patties follows the same basic
pattern as hamburgers: with two patties will be called what?
A: A double cheeseburger; a triple cheeseburger has three, and while much
less common, a quadruple has four.
Sometimes cheeseburgers are prepared with the cheese
enclosed within what?
A: The ground beef, rather than on top.
Traditionally, this dish breaches the kosher laws (Hebrew: כַּשְׁרוּת; kashrut) observed by Judaism as it combines ground beef and cheese.
Mixtures of milk and meat are prohibited according to
what?
A: Jewish religious law following a verse in the Book of Exodus in which
Jews are forbidden from "boiling a (kid) goat in its mother's milk".
This prohibition appears again where?
A: In Deuteronomy.
This dietary law sparked controversy in Jerusalem when
what happened?
A: McDonald's began opening franchises there that sold cheeseburgers.
Since that time, McDonald's has opened what?
A: Both kosher and non-kosher restaurants in
Israel.
In an attempt to provide a "kosher cheeseburger", a
kosher restaurant in New York City created a controversial cheeseburger
variation which replaces cheese with what?
A: Soy cheese.