ORANGE BRUTUS: Celebrating 30 years of local hamburger chain success

Orange Brutus Brute Burger

The hamburger is so much of a household word even among Cebuanos that only few people have come to wonder of its origins beyond the general knowledge of it being an American food. The more initiated might however care to trace how immigrants from Hamburg, Germany introduced it to North America sometime in the 19th century where it later evolved from an ordinary slab of ground meat sandwich into something embellished with cheese, tomato, lettuce, onion, mustard, etc. Some others may have more scholarly inputs about how the so-called Hamburg style dish was actually brought to Germany by Russians in the 14th century. Meanwhile, there are others who might actually recount readings about how the hamburger “patty” was first noted in the medieval times among a band of Mongolian and Turkish warriors called “Tartars”. With all these, we could so easily spur an animated classroom discussion about other possible “google-able” accounts.

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