Fox Sports lies like Faux Noise

[KamaAina]

They had these little "Fun Facts" about Texas last night (it has more airports than any other state, etc.) One was that the hamburger was invented in Athens, TX.

Patently false. It was invented here:



Does that look like Texas to you? It's Louis' Lunch in New Haven, of course.

Then again, Gee Dubya frequently confuses New Haven with Texas, so why not Faux? :eyes:

[rurallib]

1. no doubt somebody on Fox got a free burger, though.

[OriginalGeek]

2. is that the place that toasts the burgers sideways

in white bread with an onion slice? In these little broiler thingies? Because that looks pretty tasty. I saw it on the food channel once and hope some day to get there.

[Bombero1956]

4. yes it is

and never order your burger with ketchup, it's considered a major faux pas at Louis Lunch.

[OriginalGeek]

11. Whenever there is a local speicalty

I try to always get it the way they say to get it. I figure a place been in business THAT long they probably know something.

Man I'm freakin' hungry now lol.

[Beer Snob-50]

3. my 19 yo

was pissed at faux for that little lie...

[jobycom]

6. Sad to learn the truth. Does she know about Santa Claus yet?

[jobycom]

5. Hogwash, you lyin' Yankee!

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...

[KamaAina]

8. My goodness, you seem to know an awful lot about hamburgers

for a vegetarian. :P

[jobycom]

9. Laugh!

Yeah, well... :rofl:

[KamaAina]

10. Yeah, sure. Like I'm supposed to believe the Texas Lege.

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/html/HC00015I.htm

WHEREAS, Although it was served with slices of fresh-baked
bread instead of a bun, this early version of the hamburger was then
much like it is today and contained ground beef, ground mustard
mixed with mayonnaise :puke: , a large slice of Bermuda onion, and sliced
cucumber pickles; customers could also enjoy fried potatoes, served
with a thick tomato sauce; when the journalist from the Tribune was
told that Mr. Davis had learned to fix potatoes in that manner from
a friend in Paris, Texas, he misunderstood and described the item to
his readers as french-fried potatoes; and

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[jobycom]

12. Yeah, now see, that's a real hamburger, not just some tasteless dead cow on bread.

As for the Texas lege... well... Okay, that weakens the case, true, but... but... well, history is still on our side!

[jobycom]

7. They don't even put mustard on them? They STILL don't make hamburgers, then!

"The hamburger sandwiches are served the original way: on two square pieces of toasted white bread." :rofl:

More like, they are the last people in the US to serve hamburgers! It might be a tasty meat sandwich, I imagine, but it ain't a hamburger. (And what's funny is that the joint in Athens, Texas, was serving a hamburger-on-white-bread sandwich in the early 1880s before Louis Lunch was even open, so if Louis is serving a hamburger, they really aren't even close to first).

[Blue_Tires]

13. I thought they came from Hamburg, Germany?

[Odin2005]

14. A Discovery Channel documentary a while back said that the Romans had something like a hamburger.

The show was called "Ancient Inventions". they were served at small cafeterias scattered throughout Rome along with other "lunchy" items