The Library of Congress credits Louis Lunch in New Haven
with inventing the hamburger in 1900. Cheese was first
added 24 years later in California. Cheeseburgers have
been an iconic American food culture classic since the
1920s.
Original Louis’ Lunch proprietor Louis Lassen.
Colleen Paige, animal welfare advocate and pet and
family lifestyle expert, founded National Pet Day in
2006 to celebrate the joy pets can bring to us. But
she also wanted to bring attention to the ongoing
needs of many pets of all kinds waiting in shelters
to be adopted.
Paige encouraged people who want purebred dogs
and cats to contact rescue organizations instead
of going to a breeder. “Don’t shop! Adopt!” has
become the holiday motto.
Colleen Paige and friends.
Cheeseburger day is celebrated annually on the 18th of September.
This celebration of one of the most iconic and delicious foods has
been taking place every year since the early part of the Roaring 20s.
The story goes that a teenager, Lionel Sternberger, who was working
in his father’s sandwich shop, The Rite Spot in Pasadena, California,
just decided to put a slice of American cheese on a burger one day
and found it to be tasty so he shared the idea with his dad who
liked it too. And, thus, the cheeseburger was born.
Although the idea was thought to be created in California in 1924,
the first actual sandwich to be marketed that was first called the
“cheeseburger” was at Kaelin’s restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky
in 1934. But the following year, in 1935, the term “cheeseburger”
was actually trademarked in another place, at the Humpty Dumpty
Drive-in in Denver, Colorado. It seems that people all over the U.S.
have taken credit for the invention of the cheeseburger!
