This Week – Sandwich special – Burgers, turtles, popular fillings, How to make one&a lot more…

 
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All these are completley unfounded facts and R$N accepts no responsibility for the truth of any of them.

“A man once  ate 13 grilled cheese sandwiches in one minute, a world record.”

A Massachusetts Judge once had to settle a court case by declaring that a Burrito is not a Sandwich

A banana is not a sandwich

Fact #1

Hamburgers get their name from the Hamburg steaks that German immigrants brought with them to the US.

Fact #2
In 1982 the worlds largest hamburger was cooked and then eaten. That year, between close to 10,000 people came to sample the tasty 3,591 pound burger. 

Fact #3
Although there are many cities in the U.S. that claim to have invented the burger, most agree the birthplace of the hamburger is Athens, Texas. Legend dates it back to the late 1880s.

Fact #4
The hamburger became popular after it was introduced at the St. Louis Worlds fair in 1904.

Fact #5
Hamburgers and cheeseburgers comprise 71% of the beef served in commercial restaurants.

Fact #6
If you put all the hamburgers Americans eat in a line, they would circle the earth more than 32 times.

Fact #7
Americans eat about 14 billion burgers a year. (Bet they arent all as delicious as BurgerFi burgers!)

Fact #8
Burgers account for 60% of all sandwiches sold. Thats no surprise considering how delicious they are!

Fact #9
The first fast food restaurant was introduced in 1921. It sold burgers for five cents!

Fact #10
The Hamburger Hall of Fame is located in Seymour, Wisconsin.  From Burgerfi

God that was pretty boring. 
What about some other sandwich facts.

The most popular sandwich fillings in the pre-prepared sandwich market are: 

Chicken (24%) 
Fish (18%) (mostly tuna and prawns) 
Cheese (15%) 
Ham (12%) 
Bacon (10%) 
Egg (7%) 
Sausage (3%) 
Other (12%)

There is an estimated 68,500 online blogs about burgers.

Americans eat more than 300 million sandwiches each and every day.

How to make a sandwich – great guidance. 

Now combine that with the Good Sandwich Guide below and you’re onto a winner…

A sandwich is a food item commonly consisting of two or more slices of bread with one or more fillings between them. Sandwiches are a widely popular type of lunch food, typically taken to work, school, or picnics to be eaten as part of a packed lunch. The bread can be used as it is, or it can be coated with any condiments to enhance flavour and texture. They are also widely sold in restaurants and cafes, served hot or cold.
Bet you didn’t know that?!

Sandwich /?sndw?d?/ is a historic town and civil parish on the River Stour in the Non-metropolitan district of Dover, within the ceremonial county of Kent, south-east England. It has a population of 6,800.[1]
Christ… scraping the barrell here.


Gaby tucks into the super-sized spicy sandwich

The Flaming Hell sarnie is topped with a sauce made from the two most fiery chillis, the Trinidad Scorpion and the Bhut Jolokia. The butty registers 2.3million on the Scoville chilli heat scale, can only be handled with latex gloves and is hotter than a police pepper spray. 

For christ’s sake… we need to put the sandwich down and get outside…

Ta ra x