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Welcome to Smart Burger, home of the Smarty Burger.
How can I help you?
Let me get a hamburger.
You mean Smarty Burger?
If that's a hamburger, yes.
Would you like Smarty Sauce on it?
What is Smarty Sauce?
Why, ketchup, mustard, and mayo, and a dash of paprika.
Oh, so you mean the secret sauce at every other fast food restaurant.
I just work here, man.
Sorry, no Smarty Sauce.
I'll just put on some ketchup myself.
Would you like to make it a Smarty Meal?
What's that?
A Smarty Burger, Smarty Fries, and Smarty Soft Drink.
Oh, and a toy.
Um, no, I just want a hamburger.
Smarty Burger.
Right, one Smarty Burger.
Actually, maybe I will get Smarty Sauce on it.
Oh, yeah, make it a Smarty Meal.
I'm curious about the toy.
That's $4.50.
Hey, Smarty Pants.
As you can hear, I'm at a local fast food restaurant ready to enjoy a juicy, delicious hamburger.
Oh, you didn't say juicy or delicious.
Those cost extra.
Wait, what?
Just kidding.
Here you go.
Oh, thanks.
Mmm.
Oh, yeah.
Mmm.
Oh, that's good.
As you may or may not know, Smarty Pants, the hamburger is one of the world's most popular foods, and Oh look.
The toy is a tiny plastic lamp, like from Aladdin.
It seems to have some Smarty Sauce on it.
I'll just rub it clean.
Greetings!
I'm the Smarty Genie of the Lamp.
I am here to grant you three wishes.
Oh, wow.
A real-life genie in my Smarty Mail.
Ooh, what should I wish for, Smarty Pants?
World peace, endless riches, a Who Smarted animated Netflix series?
Sorry, I only grant wishes related to hamburgers.
Oh.
Seems like a rather limited power.
What did you expect from a kid's plastic meal toy?
Point taken.
Well, I do love hamburgers, so I'll wish for... a lifetime supply of burgers.
Smarty Burgers.
Right.
Your burger wish is my burger command.
Uh, Smarty Genie, why are there burgers popping up all around me?
Average Americans like yourself eat at least 60 burgers a year, over one a week, which means they'll eat about 4000 to 5000 burgers in their lifetimes.
You asked for a lifetime supply.
Yeah, but not here and not all at once.
Well, excuse me.
Burgers be gone.
Thanks.
Oh no, you made the burger I was eating disappear.
Wow, you were just never happy.
Do you want to use your third wish to make it come back?
What?
I already used two wishes?
Oh no.
Never mind, I'll just order another one.
But no Smarty Meal this time.
In the meantime, Smarty Pants, how much do you enjoy eating hamburgers?
Little?
Lot?
Not at all?
Either way, there's no denying how popular they are.
But how much do you know about them?
Like, who invented the hamburger?
Where did it come from?
How did it become so popular?
And why is it called a hamburger when there's no ham in it?
It's time for a nice flame-broiled whiff of history and science on... Who Smarted?
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Another Smarty Burger.
Thanks.
So, Smarty Pants, how do you like your burger?
If you're here in America, you might have it on a bun with ketchup and or mayo and mustard, some cheese and some combination of pickles onions, lettuce and tomato.
But, That's far from the only way to eat a burger.
In Australia and New Zealand, some people enjoy burgers with fried eggs, beet slices, or pineapple.
Some Canadians eat theirs with brown gravy.
In East Asia, burgers might be served on rice patties instead of buns.
And in Japan, people sometimes eat burgers topped with mustard and chocolate.
And if you live in Mexico, you might get a burger topped with egg and ham.
Which begs the question why is a hamburger called a hamburger, when it's usually made with ground beef and not ham?
Is it because A, burgers were originally made with ham?
B, all meat products were once called ham?
Or C, the burger is named after a place, not a meat?
Oh, I know.
The answer is C. The hamburger gets its name from a city in Germany called Hamburg.
What do you think, smarty pants?
Is the burger genie right?
He sure is.
Hamburg was a big city for trade back in the 1100s.
It was known to have good beef products, including a chopped steak similar to ground beef known as Hamburg steak.
So, knowing all that, smarty pants, true or false?
Hamburg is the birthplace of the hamburger.
The answer is false.
But wait, how could that be?
Genie, can you enlighten us?
Without it costing me my third and final wish?
Sure.
Your modest request is my command.
Meatball on a roll?
Get your meatball on a roll here.
Hey, G, where are we?
Wichita, Kansas in 1916.
I see.
And who's the guy with the food cart who sounds a lot like the cashier at Smarty Burger?
His name is Walter Anderson, and he's a cook who can't cook his meatballs fast enough.
That's right.
So you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to smash these meatballs with this spatula to cook them faster.
Ha!
Look at that.
Flat beats round.
Hmm.
You know what?
I might be onto something here.
He sure was.
In fact, if memory serves me correct, I mentioned Walter Anderson here on our lunches episode.
Smarty Pants, what fast food chain will Walter Anderson help create?
Is it A, McDonald's, B, Wendy's, or C, White Castle?
The answer is C, White Castle.
White Castle opened in 1921, and it's the restaurant that transformed the hamburger from a lunch cart snack to a meal everyone can enjoy.
My method of cooking and serving fast food eventually inspired other restaurant chains, including McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's.
Wow, and it all started with a smooshed meatball.
Uh, what's that sound?
What?
I don't hear anything.
It's coming from your little plastic lamp.
I don't know what you're talking about.
What?
No, I didn't take you to the wrong place at all.
There is definitely a noise coming from... Wait a sec.
Are we in the wrong place?
Is that what that beeping means?
It means something's a teensy-weensy bit off.
How off?
Well Walter yeah, he did help create White Castle and make the burger famous, but he probably didn't cook the first one.
I didn't?
Nope.
Sorry.
Toodle-oo.
Ah, here we go.
Where are we now?
The year is 1900.
The place, New Haven, Connecticut, and a restaurant called Louie's Lunch, where the U.S.
Library of Congress says the hamburger was born.
Here?
Yep.
So the story goes, a customer came in one day and needed a lunch.
Fast.
And they wanted something they could eat on the go.
So, Lou the owner says... Sure thing, pal.
Hey, I got an idea.
I'll make a patty out of these bits of steak.
I'll put it on some toast, and there you go.
The first hamburger.
Yep, that's a... Oh boy, not again.
Now what?
Seems there's proof of hamburgers before 1900.
Follow me.
Now when and where are we?
1885 at a fair in Seymour, Wisconsin.
A young food vendor named Charlie Nagreen realized people can eat and enjoy the fair at the same time if he smooshed his meatballs between two slices of bread.
I know you said he was young, but he looks like a kid.
Yep, he's just 15 years old.
He becomes known as Hamburger Charlie.
How will you stop beeping?
Let me guess.
This isn't where the hamburger was invented.
Smarty Pants, where do you think the hamburger was created?
Could be Texas, New York, Virginia, California, Oklahoma.
There's just so many claims to it.
Ah, but I'm noticing one thing all those places have in common.
Smarty Pants, have you picked up on it?
Why, they're all in the United States.
So, it's safe to say the hamburger was born in the USA, right?
Sure, we can say that.
Or not.
So, not from the United States.
Come on, let's give somewhere else a try.
Okay, smarty pants, care to guess where we are?
Is it Paris, London, or Tokyo?
Oh, why it's London in the mid-1700s.
And why are we in London in the mid-1700s?
Because a British chef and cookbook author named Hannah Glass wrote about her new dish, the Hamburg sausage, which was basically ground beef on toasted bread.
Sounds kind of burgery.
Yep, but... Never mind, forget London.
Uh, where are we now?
Riding horses into battle with Mongol warriors back in the 1200s.
There's meat under the saddles, tenderizing.
Gross.
Do they eat it later?
You bet.
Some say these are the first burgers.
But not everyone.
Are we in ancient Rome?
Yep, during the first century, ancient artifacts say a chopped beef patty was made here.
That has to be the first burger, right?
Or was there one even earlier?
Smarty Pants, do you know why it's so difficult to pinpoint the very first burger?
Is it A, because meat and bread have been around basically forever?
B, people like to eat on the go?
Or C, cooks are always inventing things and multiple people might have the same idea?
If you answered A, B, or C, you're right.
The idea of meat on bread is so simple and so portable and so easy to come up with.
It's no surprise that more than one person is said to have created the first one.
Well, if we can track down the first burger, do you wish to see the world's largest?
Oh, that sounds fun.
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Okay, smarty pants.
We've talked a lot about the standard hamburger, which is made with meat from a cow.
But about how much of the world's population does not eat meat?
10%?
20%?
50%?
The answer is nearly 20%, about one and a half billion people.
But they might enjoy a veggie burger.
Oh, I can show you the first veggie burger.
Uh, not today.
Smarty Pants, any guess when the first veggie burger was made?
Was it A, in ancient times, B, the 1820s, or C, the 1980s?
While the history of the veggie burger is also hazy, most say the first one was sold in 1982 at a restaurant in London by a vegetarian cook named Gregory Sams.
It was made with wheat gluten, sesame, soy, and oats.
I hear it took many, many tries to get the burger flavor right.
Yeah, and some say they never got it right.
These days, plant-based burgers are made with a variety of ingredients.
Some can be healthier than beef burgers, some not so much.
And while veggie burgers might have fewer calories, less fat and more fiber, they also might have a lot more sodium than beef burgers.
As with everything, check the ingredients before you eat.
And to stay healthy, don't eat too much of any kind of burger.
You should definitely not eat the world's largest burger by yourself.
True, but I do wish to see it.
My pleasure.
Look at that ginormous burger.
When and where are we?
2017, in the country of Hamburg steaks.
Smarty Pants, do you remember what country Hamburg is in?
Is it Belgium, Austria, or Germany?
That's right.
Germany.
Except we're not in Hamburg.
We're in the village of Pilsting.
A group of 300 people worked together to create this monster burger.
It's made with three meat patties and topped with tomatoes lettuce cucumbers, onions and hamburger sauce.
Of course, it has a giant bun.
Any guess how much this monster weighs?
Smarty Pants, how much do you think the largest hamburger weighed?
100 pounds?
500 pounds?
1,000 pounds?
Not even close, my friend.
Try over 2,566 pounds, or 1,164 kilograms.
Wow.
You'd need more than 8,000 Smarty Burgers to equal this one.
Or two cows.
So did one person eat all of that?
Nope.
It was caught up and sold in hunks.
The money went to charity.
Nice.
Okay, that wraps up this episode.
I'm ready to wish for my lifetime supply of burgers now, spaced out over time, not all at once.
Oh, sorry, trustee.
You used your third wish to come here.
We're done.
Oh, well.
Can I get another Smarty Meal, please?
Hold the toy.
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And keep on smarting, Smarty Pants.
This episode Hamburgers, was written by Dave Flame-Broiled Beaudry and voiced by Chris In-N-Out Okawa, Adam Lettuce, Rapper Davis and Jerry Colbert.
Technical direction and sound design by Josh, Have It Your Way Han.
Our associate producer is Max, Big Mac Kamaski.
The theme song is by Brian, Soyburger Suarez, with lyrics written and performed by Adam Tex Davis.
Who Smarted was created and produced by Adam Tex Davis and Jerry Colbert.
This has been an Atomic Audio production.
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