Good Burger History

Food is essential needs of human everyday. Without food, human can’t live normally since food is our primary source of energy. Walking along Grand River Avenue, we can see a lot of restaurants that can be used as an example. One of the largest company in the world and probably the world’s largest fast food franchise is McDonald. Founded in 1940 by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California. McDonald started as a barbecue restaurant and nowadays McDonald primarily sells french fries, apple pie, hamburgers, cheeseburger, hash browns, soft drinks, and desserts such as ice cream and sundae. However, did you know that almost all of the food sold in McDonald are actually not originated from the United States of America? Basically

Hamburger business gives such a large impact on the U.S economy since the hamburger business worth about $73 billion and this proves that hamburger is everyday meals by American. There was an hour thirty minutes comedy named Good Burger (1997). This comedy basically describe the American culture of hamburger which everyone in America enjoyed eating hamburger and looking for the best hamburger restaurant. The restaurant named Good Burger was competing with a restaurant named Mondo Burger, a mammoth fast-food chain to determine which restaurant was the best across the street and made a lot of profit through the fast food franchise. At the end of the story, Good Burger won as one of the workers invent a secret sauce for the hamburgers that attract all of the customers from that particular place.

The second popular dish that is popular in the U.S but not originated from the U.S is apple pie. In fact, before apple pie was brought to the U.S, apple pie was being consumed in Europe since 14th century. It is recorded that the first consumption of apple pie was in 1697 when apple pie was brought by Swedish, Dutch, and British immigrants. Linguist Allen Metcalf in his book, “ America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shape America” stated

As the population of immigrants to the U.S increase, there will be more variety of food. Even though there are a lot of chinese and italian food here, they are still not as authentic as in their home country because some of the ingredients are not sold in the U.S and the food themselves had been assimilated into american culture to match their taste. For example, the meat of meatballs in spaghetti bolognese is have been modified to match American taste. In terms of health, even though american food are much more cheaper, the risk of individual health is higher. Numbers of diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart attack patients are also increase. There was a documentary called Super Size Me (2004). In this documentary, a person named Morgan Spurlock made himself as an experiment by consuming McDonald food three times a day for a month. As a result, the doctor told him that he was not in a good shape with increase of weight, blood glucose level, and cholesterol level. That was the significant side effects of McDonalds meals. Imagine the side effects of the meal when we eat for years. Based on health report by CNN, about last 25 years, 7.2 died in every 100000 live birth in United States and eventually the death rate doubled to 17.8 died in every 100000 live birth in