HAMBURGER SANDWICH TURNS 100 YEARS OLD

HAMBURGER SANDWICH TURNS 100 YEARS OLD

NEW HAVEN, CT. (Wireless Flash) -- Why should the name Louis Lassen make cows shudder in terror? Because Louis is the inventor of the hamburger sandwich, which turns 100 today. Lassen invented the hamburger sandwich at his restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, on July 28, 1900. The idea was a way to use up meat scraps left over from steak sandwiches and Lassen ground them up, cooked them and put the meat between two pieces of toast. Lassen isn't the only burger magnate who claims to have invented the hamburger. There are at least four other individuals who claim to have invented the hamburger, the earliest being in 1885. But Louis' 83-year-old grandson, Kenneth, dismisses the other claims saying, "let them have their hamburger, we invented the hamburger sandwich."