110 Fun Facts About Hamburger

Which masked McDonaldland character spent decades in black-and-white stripes trying to steal Ronald McDonald's food?

The Hamburglar returned in 2015, when McDonald's brought the character back to help launch a new sirloin burger.

"Hamburger Charlie" Nagreen claimed to have sold the first hamburger at an 1885 county fair in which state?

Wisconsin's Seymour fair is where the 15-year-old is said to have squashed a meatball between bread so customers could eat while they walked. He came back to sell burgers there every year until his death in 1951.

Louis' Lunch, which says it served the first hamburger in 1900, is in which city?

New Haven, Connecticut, is where a rushed customer in 1900 supposedly got steak trimmings between two slices of toast. Louis' Lunch still serves its burgers on toast, cooked in cast-iron grills dating from 1898.

At Louis' Lunch, which claims to have invented the hamburger, asking for which of these is famously forbidden?

Ketchup is out, like every other condiment, because the owners want customers to taste the meat. The founder's family, now in its fourth generation, allows only cheese, tomato and onion as garnish.

At which event was the hamburger called "the innovation of a food vendor on the pike"?

1904 St. Louis World's Fair: a New York Tribune reporter filed the line, and 'the pike' was the fair's midway. The reporter never named the vendor, so nobody can say for sure whose burger it was.

Which state's legislature named Athens, claimant Fletcher Davis's town, the 'Original Home of the Hamburger'?

Texas lawmakers passed the resolution in 2007, backing the tale that Davis, a potter turned cook, was frying burgers at a lunch counter on the courthouse square in the late 1800s.

The Menches brothers said they invented the hamburger in 1885 after running out of which ingredient?

Pork sausage ran short at an 1885 county fair, the brothers said, so they fried ground beef instead and, finding it bland, mixed in coffee and brown sugar.

Which city did Oklahoma's governor proclaim 'The Real Birthplace of the Hamburger' in 1995?

Tulsa got the title on the Bilby family's story that Oscar Bilby served grilled patties on homemade yeast buns on July 4, 1891, which they call the first hamburger on a bun.

White Castle, credited as the first fast-food hamburger chain, opened in 1921 in which city?

Wichita, Kansas, lost its last White Castle in 1938 after the company moved its base east; the chain came home for a single day in 2011 to sell burgers for its 90th birthday.

White Castle patties cook without being flipped because what passes through the five holes punched in each one?

Steam from the pile of onions under the patties does the cooking; Cincinnati grill man Earl Howell dropped the idea in a suggestion box, and the company liked it enough to patent it.

White Castle's tiny square burgers are commonly known by what name?

Sliders, the chain says, got the name for being so easy to eat; it sold the five-cent burgers by the sack, and the word later spread to almost any mini burger.

White Castle co-founder Walt Anderson is credited with which fast-food invention?

The hamburger bun is credited to Anderson, who around 1916 shaped a heavier dough into small squares to fit his patties; he also ran his kitchen like an assembly line, the template for fast food since.

Franchisee Jim Delligatti created the Big Mac in 1967 and first sold it in Uniontown, in which US state?

Pennsylvania was the test market: head office feared a pricier burger would put customers off, so Delligatti trialled it in Uniontown, near Pittsburgh. His reward, he said, was a plaque.

McDonald's credits which head-office employee with the name Big Mac?

An advertising secretary, 21-year-old Esther Glickstein, offered it when an executive rushing to a board meeting asked for ideas; everyone laughed, she said, but it beat Blue Ribbon Burger, and McDonald's only thanked her in 1985.

In McDonald's 1970s Big Mac jingle, which ingredient is sung straight after 'lettuce, cheese'?

Pickles come next, then onions on a sesame-seed bun; the 1974 ads showed real customers fumbling the words, and a 2008 revival in Malaysia gave a free Big Mac to customers who said it within four seconds.

Which publication launched the Big Mac Index as a lighthearted currency test?

The Economist's Pam Woodall devised it to make exchange-rate theory easier to swallow: a burger should cost the same everywhere, so a cheap one hints at an undervalued currency. It gave the world the word 'burgernomics'.

Burger King's 2009 Facebook app swapped a free Whopper for what?

Ten friends had to be deleted, and the app told each one they had been traded for a burger; nearly 234,000 friendships ended before Facebook objected to those notices and Burger King pulled the stunt.

Where was the Whopper Jr. accidentally created in 1963 for lack of Whopper bun moulds?

Puerto Rico's first Burger King opened in Carolina before its Whopper bun moulds had arrived, so manager Luis Arenas-Perez used regular buns; the chain liked the small version enough to sell it worldwide.

For an April Fools' Day prank in 1998, Burger King advertised a Whopper designed for which customers?

Left-handers were promised a Whopper with every condiment rotated 180 degrees in a full-page USA Today ad; the next day thousands asked for one, and others insisted on the right-handed original.

Which 1984 presidential hopeful used Wendy's "Where's the beef?" line in a debate against Gary Hart?

Walter Mondale told Hart his 'new ideas' reminded him of the ad, and won the nomination; the ad's director later joked that had Mondale said the line like Clara Peller, he would have been President.

Dave Thomas named the Wendy's burger chain after which member of his family?

His daughter Melinda, nicknamed Wendy, posed in pigtails for the sign; years later Thomas apologised to her, saying he should have named the chain after himself because of the pressure it put on her.

Fry cook Lionel Sternberger reputedly invented the cheeseburger in 1924 in which California city?

A 1928 menu from O'Dell's in Los Angeles listed a cheeseburger smothered in chili for 25 cents.

Two rival bars in which city claim the Jucy Lucy, a burger with molten cheese sealed inside the patty?

Minneapolis rivals Matt's Bar and the 5-8 Club sit on the same avenue; Matt's says it forgot the 'i' in Juicy back in 1954, and now warns that a correctly spelled one may be a shameless rip-off.

Burger-mooching J. Wellington Wimpy is a character in which comic strip?

Popeye's pal forever promises to pay on Tuesday for a burger today, and in 1934 a real American burger chain borrowed his name.

Britain's Wimpy Bar chain opened its first outlet in 1954 inside a Lyons Corner House in which city?

London's Coventry Street got it as a burger counter inside a traditional restaurant; the American original, founded in 1934, had shrunk to seven outlets by its founder's death in 1977, and the UK offshoot outlasted it.

In Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega says Paris calls which McDonald's menu item a 'Royale with Cheese'?

Quarter Pounder means nothing in a metric country, Vincent explains, so Paris gets a 'Royale with Cheese'; the real French menu comes close, listing the burger as Le Royal Cheese.

Six cooks built Guinness's heaviest hamburger, a 2017 giant weighing more than a tonne, in which country?

Germany's record-setter, built in the Bavarian village of Pilsting, weighed 1,164 kg and took a crane to move; it only counted once every bite was eaten, so it was sold off as nearly 3,000 ordinary burgers.

Which singer's 'Cheeseburger in Paradise' grew from a craving after canned food at sea?

Jimmy Buffett limped into a Tortola marina with a broken bowsprit after days on canned food and peanut butter, and found a bar selling American cheeseburgers; the overdone one he got, he said, tasted like manna.

An In-N-Out burger ordered "Animal Style" is cooked in a thin layer of which condiment?

Mustard is cooked into the patty on the grill; the off-menu order, which the chain says began with customer requests, also adds extra spread and grilled onions.

In-N-Out's crossed palm trees nod to which treasure-hunt comedy, a favourite of founder Harry Snyder?

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World sends its cast racing for loot buried under palms that form a giant letter; Snyder saw each restaurant as his treasure, so since 1972 most have been marked with a crossed pair.

In-N-Out prints what in small type on the underside of its cups and burger wrappers?

Bible verse citations such as John 3:16 on the soda cups were the idea of Rich Snyder, a founder's son; after his death the chain kept printing them out of respect for him.

Which burger chain, founded in Arlington, Virginia, in 1986, gives out free in-shell peanuts?

Five Guys were Jerry Murrell and his four sons, who were told to start a business or go to college; when a fifth brother was born, the name came to mean the sons alone.

Hamburger Helper went national in August 1971 in response to what?

Soaring beef prices and hard times had families stretching every pound of meat, and the boxed mix promised dinner for five from one pound of hamburger.

The Impossible Burger's meaty "blood" comes from heme based on a molecule from the roots of which plant?

Soy roots carry the molecule in their nodules, but digging up plants was too costly, so Impossible Foods put the soybean gene into yeast and now brews its blood-red heme in vats.

The green chile cheeseburger has its own official tourism trail in which state?

New Mexico's most storied example comes from the Owl Bar, a roadside cafe that opened in 1945 feeding 'prospectors' who were really the atomic scientists preparing the Trinity bomb test nearby.

Japan's MOS Burger introduced which alternative to the bread bun in 1987?

Pressed rice patties, cakes of cooked white rice rather than rice flour, stand in for bread; the chain, which says it tunes its menu to the Japanese palate, calls the Rice Burger a smash hit from launch.

The Japanese chain MOS Burger says its name stands for Mountain, Ocean and what?

Sun completes the trio: the chain says its founder wanted staff as dignified as a mountain, with hearts as broad as the sea and a passion that, like the third, never burns out.

An Australian "burger with the lot" comes with which vegetable topping rarely seen on American burgers?

Beetroot is such a fixture that McDonald's Australia sold a McOz with a slice of it, under the line 'Nothing says Aussie like beetroot in a burger.'

In 2013, crowds queued for hours at a Brooklyn food market for Keizo Shimamoto's burger, whose bun was made of what?

Ramen noodles, packed into two discs, held the patty; each Saturday's batch sold out within hours at Smorgasburg, and imitators appeared before the craze was a year old.

Charles Ranhofer, whose 1894 cookbook The Epicurean included a chopped-beef steak recipe, was chef at which Gilded Age New York restaurant?

Delmonico's chef chopped a pound of tenderloin with kidney suet or marrow, shaped it into four-ounce cakes rolled in breadcrumbs, and fried them in butter; they went to the table under gravy, with no bun in sight.

The USDA wants burgers at 160°F but allows 145°F for what?

Beef steaks can stop at 145°F because any bacteria sit on the surface of a whole cut; grinding, the USDA explains, spreads them all through a patty, so its centre has to reach 160°F.

The first lab-grown beef burger, cooked and eaten at a 2013 press event, cost roughly how much to produce?

$330,000 covered the research at Maastricht University, where cow cells were grown into strips of muscle; tasters found the patty close to meat but not that juicy, and the mystery backer turned out to be Google's Sergey Brin.

Salisbury steak is named for James Salisbury, who promoted a chopped-beef diet as what by profession?

A physician, he treated Union soldiers' chronic diarrhoea during the Civil War with chopped beef and little else, and his 1888 book turned the regimen into an early American fad diet.

Bob Wian sold his car in 1936 to open a California burger stand whose double-decker launched which restaurant chain?

Big Boy took its name and chubby mascot from a young regular at the stand; Wian said the double-decker began as a joke for a customer who wanted something different, and McDonald's later modelled the Big Mac on it.

The steamed cheeseburger, cooked in a steel cabinet, is a speciality almost exclusive to which US state?

It is thought to have been invented at Jack's Lunch in Middletown in the 1920s or 1930s, when steaming was touted as healthier than frying.

Hawaii's loco moco stacks a hamburger patty and a fried egg on white rice, topped with what?

Brown gravy smothers the lot. The story goes that hungry Hilo teenagers asked a local diner around 1949 for something cheap and filling, and the dish took the nickname of one of them: Crazy, or loco in Spanish.

Norm Cox drew the three-line 'hamburger' icon for a 1981 Xerox workstation to resemble what?

A menu list, as it would look once the button was clicked, is what the three lines mimic; Cox says the team joked to early users that it was an air vent to keep the window cool.

Which fictional burger has a secret formula that Plankton spends an entire TV series trying to steal?

Krabby Patty ingredients stay secret, but the show's staff have let one thing slip: Mr. Lawrence, who voices Plankton, says the burger has always been vegetarian, and a producer confirms there is no meat in it.

A&W credits franchisee Dale Mulder with inventing which burger in 1963, at customers' request?

Bacon cheeseburger credit became a selling point: Mulder rose from his Lansing drive-in to run the whole chain, which built a 2014 ad campaign around an 'oral history' of his invention.

The meat "Maharaja Mac", McDonald's Big Mac for India, now uses which patties instead of beef?

Chicken patties fill it, because McDonald's India serves neither beef nor pork, out of respect for Hindu and Muslim diners; a vegetarian Maharaja Mac is sold alongside.

A "$100 hamburger" is slang for an excuse to make a short trip in which pastime?

Private flying makes the burger pricey: pilots joke that a $5 airport-cafe burger costs about $100 once fuel is counted, and by 2008 rising fuel prices had one flight-school boss calling it a $200 hamburger.

In 2015, media in which country hailed a local street snack, meat in a bun, as the first hamburger?

China's outlets were passing on an American claim: a HuffPost food piece had called roujiamo, a Shaanxi street snack it traced to the Qin dynasty, the world's first hamburger, and Chinese media ran with it.

Smash burger lore credits a 1960s Kentucky cook at Dairy Cheer with flattening beef on the griddle using which kitchen item?

A bean can did the smashing, the story goes, but as a first it looks doubtful: burger historian George Motz reckons America's earliest burgers were already balls of beef smashed flat for speed.

Ray Kroc first visited the McDonald brothers' burger stand in 1954 because he was selling them what?

Milkshake mixers were his line, and a single stand that needed eight of them made him curious enough to visit; within a year he had opened his own McDonald's as the brothers' franchise agent.

Which Illinois-born chain took its slogan 'In Sight It Must Be Right' from grinding its beef in front of customers?

Steak 'n Shake founder Gus Belt wanted diners to see what went into a burger: the chain says he wheeled in a barrel of T-bones and sirloins at the busiest hour and ground them in front of the counter.

The butter burger, an Upper Midwest speciality, is the signature item of which chain?

Culver's ButterBurger is not cooked in butter at all: the name comes from lightly buttering the crown of the bun, which co-founder Craig Culver says is just how his mother made burgers.

A 2012 study found the French eat 14 restaurant hamburgers per person a year, second in Europe behind whom?

The British led with 17 apiece; in France, the researchers said, the burger had left fast food behind and moved onto the menus of brasseries and sit-down restaurants.

White Castle moved its headquarters in the 1930s to which Ohio city?

Columbus was more central to the chain's restaurants, Billy Ingram reasoned after buying out his partner in 1933, and the company he moved there is still run from the city by his family.

McDonald's has trained managers since 1961 at a school whose graduates earn a bachelor's degree in what?

Hamburgerology is the degree from Hamburger University, which began in the basement of an Illinois McDonald's in 1961; its Shanghai campus, Bloomberg reported, can be harder to get into than Harvard.

White Castle's founders borrowed how much in 1921 to build the first of their turreted burger stands?

$700 built a turreted stand selling five-cent burgers, and Billy Ingram's fixation on spotless counters did the rest; the chain still sums up its origins as '$700 and an idea'.

Burger King trades under which name in Australia, where a takeaway already owned the trademark?

Hungry Jack's was chosen by franchisee Jack Cowin from a set of spare trademarks that Burger King's parent company, Pillsbury, had already registered.

When McDonald's quit which country in 2009, the last burger sold was offered to the national museum?

Iceland's National Museum kept the burger and fries for a time, then handed them back, so they went on show at a hostel instead. McDonald's had pulled out during the country's financial crisis.

Ray Kroc's meatless Hula Burger, tested by McDonald's in 1963, swapped the beef patty for a slice of what?

Pineapple lost the contest: the Hula Burger was tested against the Filet-O-Fish, an Ohio franchisee's idea, and the fish sandwich outsold it to win a permanent place.

The Luther Burger, said to be named for singer Luther Vandross, replaces the usual bun with what?

Glazed doughnuts stood in, by one account, when a Georgia bar owner ran out of buns; a restaurant in Queens later sold a halal take on the sweet-and-salty burger.

Which actor plays Ray Kroc, the salesman who took over McDonald's, in the 2016 film The Founder?

Michael Keaton's Kroc muscles out the brothers who started the chain, Richard and Maurice McDonald, played by Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch.

Which tech company's chief promised in 2017 to fix the cheese layering on its burger emoji?

Google boss Sundar Pichai pledged to put everything else aside for the job, and Emojipedia later confirmed that the redrawn Android burger had its cheese in the right place.

Which college football champions were served fast-food burgers at the White House during a 2019 shutdown?

Clemson Tigers players were served piles of burgers, fries and pizza by President Trump because the residence staff who would normally cook were not working.

Thomas Friedman's Golden Arches Theory said two countries that both had a McDonald's had never done what?

Fought a war is what no two McDonald's countries had done, Friedman wrote in 1996, tongue slightly in cheek: a middle class large enough to support the chain has too much to lose.

Carhops at Sonic Drive-In are known for bringing burgers out to parked cars while wearing what?

Roller skates are such a Sonic tradition that the chain holds an annual contest to find its best skating carhop.

Which pop artist eats a hamburger on camera for over four minutes in the 1982 film 66 Scenes from America?

Andy Warhol's Whopper meal is the longest scene in the documentary, and Burger King aired the footage as its commercial during the NFL's title game in 2019.

Which Archie Comics character in a crown-shaped cap eats huge piles of hamburgers without gaining weight?

Jughead Jones reasons that dating only costs money better spent on hamburgers, and he is a regular at Pop Tate's Chock'lit Shoppe whenever his tab is paid.

In the animated series Bob's Burgers, what kind of business sits next door to the Belchers' restaurant?

A funeral home and crematorium is the neighbour, and its owner, Mort the mortician, is one of the burger restaurant's regular customers.

The 1997 film Good Burger, starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, grew out of a sketch on which series?

All That, Nickelodeon's sketch show, gave Kel Mitchell the role of Ed, the dimwitted but well-meaning cashier he played again in the film.

In which 2004 documentary did Morgan Spurlock claim to eat only McDonald's food for 30 days?

Super Size Me followed Spurlock eating at the chain three times a day and trying every item at least once; he later disclosed he had also been abusing alcohol.

Which future Today show weatherman created and first played the clown Ronald McDonald in 1963?

Willard Scott, who had played Bozo the Clown on Washington television, built a costume with a paper cup for a nose and a cardboard food tray for a hat.

McDonald's opened its first restaurant outside the United States in 1967 in which country?

Canada came first, with a restaurant in Richmond, British Columbia, and the country now has well over a thousand McDonald's branches.

Which beef cut from the shoulder of the cow is a favourite for grinding into burger patties?

Chuck is prized for its balance of meat and fat, and one bone-in cut of it is nicknamed the 7-bone because the shoulder bone's cross-section looks like the numeral.

Cooks in El Reno, Oklahoma, stretched pricey beef in the 1920s by smashing what into each burger patty?

Sliced onions cost less than beef, so El Reno's Hamburger Inn pressed a heap of them into each five-cent patty, and diners in the town still cook burgers that way.

The chopped cheese, beef and cheese hashed on a hero roll, reputedly began in which part of Manhattan?

Spanish Harlem's Hajji's Deli is widely credited with the first one, yet New York chef Anthony Bourdain admitted on television in 2014 that he had never heard of the sandwich.

Which chemical process between amino acids and sugars gives a seared burger its browned, savoury crust?

The Maillard reaction is named for the French chemist who described it in 1912 while trying to reproduce the way living things build proteins.

McDonald's low-fat McLean Deluxe of 1991 added carrageenan, an extract of what, to its lean beef?

Seaweed-derived carrageenan and 91% lean beef kept the fat down, but the Deluxe line the burger began is remembered as one of the costliest flops in McDonald's history.

Which Indianapolis-born chain sold the Funmeal, a kids' meal with a toy, before McDonald's Happy Meal?

Burger Chef sued when the Happy Meal appeared in 1979 but lost; its own boxes had carried puzzles and stories about the mascots Burger Chef and Jeff.

A classic patty melt serves its beef patty and melted Swiss cheese between griddled slices of which bread?

Seeded rye is the traditional choice, and Los Angeles restaurateur Tiny Naylor, who was serving the sandwich by the early 1950s, is often credited with inventing it.

Mississippi's deep-fried slugburger is said to be named for slang for a fake version of which coin?

A nickel was what the burger first cost, and a slug was a look-alike metal disc that worked in vending machines, or so the town legend in Corinth goes.

Missouri's guber burger, invented at the Wheel Inn in Sedalia, is topped with a melting spoonful of what?

Peanut butter went on at the Wheel Inn alongside mayo, lettuce and tomato, and it is spooned over the patty as it finishes cooking so that it melts into the meat.

The pastrami burger, signature of the Crown Burgers chain, is a fast-food staple of which state?

Utah got it from California: the Crown Burgers founders brought the recipe from a relative's stand in Anaheim when they opened in Salt Lake City in 1978.

Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In won a 1935 trademark on the word 'cheeseburger' in which city?

Denver's claim rests on paperwork rather than proof of invention: Kaelin's Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, says it made the first cheeseburger a year earlier.

Max, a hamburger chain founded in the northern town of Gällivare in 1968, comes from which country?

Sweden's Max was for years the biggest burger chain in the north of the country, with only a single restaurant outside the Norrland region until the 1980s.

The Ramly Burger, a street-stall patty wrapped in a thin omelette, is a favourite of which country?

Malaysia's Ramly bin Mokni, a former market butcher, started the brand so that Muslim customers could buy burger meat they knew to be halal.

Which 1906 Upton Sinclair novel made Americans so wary of ground beef that White Castle stressed cleanliness?

The Jungle exposed filthy meat-packing plants, so White Castle's founders answered with stainless steel interiors and staff in spotless uniforms.

Which chain, founded in Corpus Christi in 1950, was long known for orange-and-white striped A-frame roofs?

Whataburger is named for the response founder Harmon Dobson wanted from customers: a burger so large it took two hands to hold and so good they would exclaim at the first bite.

Which Philippine chain, known for its mayonnaise-topped Yumburger, withstood McDonald's arrival in 1981?

Jollibee held its ground by cooking for Filipino tastes, with bestsellers such as a sweet spaghetti whose beef sauce comes with pieces of hot dog and ham.

Which pop sculptor made Floor Burger (1962), a giant hamburger of canvas stuffed with foam and cardboard?

Claes Oldenburg had help: his first wife, Patty Mucha, sewed Floor Burger and his other early soft sculptures, among them Floor Cake and Floor Cone.

Japan's fried-egg Tsukimi burgers, sold each September and October, are named for the custom of viewing what?

The moon gives tsukimi, meaning moon-viewing, its name; at the old autumn festivals, aristocrats held viewing parties on boats to watch its reflection on the water.

Which nickname did a USDA microbiologist coin in 2002 for an ammonia-treated ground beef filler?

Pink slime, officially lean finely textured beef, was Gerald Zirnstein's phrase in an internal email; he argued that the product was salvage rather than meat.

When the plant-based Beyond Burger launched in 2016, which crop supplied its main protein?

Peas provide the protein that is the primary ingredient across the company's products, while red beet juice gives the burger its colour and lets it bleed like beef.

Louella Parsons, who coined the put-down 'nothingburger' in the 1950s, was famous in Hollywood as what?

A gossip columnist gave English the word for a fuss that proves to be about very little, and it later became a favourite of political circles in Washington, D.C.

Kewpee Hamburgers, a chain founded in Flint, Michigan, in 1923 as Kewpee Hotel Hamburgs, is named after what?

A doll called the Kewpie lent its name to the Flint business, which ranks as the second-oldest hamburger chain in the United States.

The frita, a chorizo-spiced hamburger piled with shoestring potato fries, began in which country?

Cuba invented the frita but, by burger historian George Motz's account, no longer knows it: the burger survives mainly in South Florida.

Which is the only cheese that Matt's Bar, rival of the 5-8 Club, seals inside its Juicy Lucy?

American cheese is all Matt's will melt into its patties, while the rival 5-8 Club lets diners choose among several fillings, blue and Swiss among them.

Which sitting US president ate a Juicy Lucy at Matt's Bar, prompting the rival 5-8 Club to offer him one too?

Barack Obama's visit came in June 2014, only hours after the death of Matt Bristol, the bar's founder and namesake.

The 5-8 Club, one of two taverns that claim the Juicy Lucy, opened in 1928 as what kind of business?

A speakeasy run illegally from a stucco-sided house was the start; the club says it came up with its cheese-stuffed burger in the 1950s.

The 5-8 Club, a tavern famous for its Juicy Lucy burgers, takes its name from what?

Its cross street, 58th Street, lent the name to the club, which has stood on the same corner since 1928.

How do grill cooks at the 5-8 Club tell apart Juicy Lucy patties stuffed with different cheeses?

Colored toothpicks tag each patty by its hidden filling, so a cook can tell a blue-cheese burger from a Swiss one without cutting it open.

Which Travel Channel series sent host Adam Richman to both rival Juicy Lucy bars for its first-season finale?

Man v. Food had Richman try both burgers, and when he went to name the better original, a van drove past on cue so that nobody could hear his verdict.

In the story told at Matt's Bar, the Juicy Lucy got its name in 1954 from an exclamation by whom?

A patron asked the cook to seal some cheese between two patties, bit in and cried out at how juicy it was, the founder's family recalled in 1998.

Honouring its secretive early years, the 5-8 Club, a home of the Juicy Lucy, uses what as its main entrance?

The back door has stayed the main way in ever since the club's first years in a stucco-sided house, where the owners dug a garage underneath to move their stock unseen.

Burger King began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King in which Florida city, before two Miami franchisees bought it?

Jacksonville's Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties, and franchisees David Edgerton and James McLamore took the company over in 1959.

The slopper, a cheeseburger served smothered in red or green chile sauce, comes from Pueblo in which state?

Colorado's slopper is said, in one story, to owe its name to a regular who asked the cooks to slop the chile all over his burger.

The McDonald brothers opened their first McDonald's restaurant in 1940, selling barbecue, in which California city?

San Bernardino kept the brothers so busy that they doubted their self-service system would work in colder, rainier places and were slow to take the chain national.