Hamburger Buns

Hamburger, the small grilled or fried beef patty we are so familiar with today, comes from the city of Hamburg, Germany. The burger, as it is often called, became firmly established and synonymous with American cooking at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, and America never looked back—the fast-food chains made sure of that. Enclosing the cooked meat between toasted bun halves was popularized around 1940 with the birth of what is currently the oldest and largest of these e