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TIDBITS® GOBBLES UP SOME

CHEESEBURGERSby Kathy Wolfe

Since September 18 is National Cheeseburger Day, Tidbits brings you the facts and figures on one of the world’s favorite meals.

• The average American eats about three burgers a week, which translates to nearly 50 billion burgers consumed across the nation every year. About 70% of the beef served in commercial restaurants is made into burgers.

• You might think cheeseburgers have been around just as long as hamburgers, but not so! In the late 1700s, German sailors and immigrants brought the “Hamburg Steak” (an entrée with origins in Hamburg, Germany) to New York City. The meat patty between two pieces of bread was a popular item along the New York harbor. The city’s famous Delmonico’s Restaurant featured a hamburger on their menu in 1834. The hamburger made its way out west, appearing on the menu of San Fernando, California’s Clipper restaurant from 1872 to 1884. Yet it seems that the hamburger didn’t look like it does today until 1891, when Oscar Bilby served burgers on a bun. The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair gave the hamburger widespread attention.

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CHEESEBURGERS (continued):• The first records of cheeseburgers were

in the 1920s. A Pasadena restaurant, the Rite Spot, claimed it was the first to serve a cheeseburger in 1926, when the owner’s 16-year-old son came up with the idea. A 1928 menu from a Los Angeles restaurant called O’Dell’s has a cheeseburger listed. Kaelin’s Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, says they invented the item in 1934. But the first person to apply for use of the word “cheeseburger” as a trademark was Louis Ballast of Denver’s Humpty Dumpty Drive-In. Ballast registered the name in 1935 and was awarded a trademark, but never made any claims on it. Steak ‘n Shake claims their restaurant’s founder, Gus Belt, was the first to apply for a trademark in the 1930s.

• Jimmy Buffett’s popular 1978 hit “Cheeseburger in Paradise” led to a chain of successful restaurants. The song was inspired by a boat trip gone bad taken by Buffett and friends. Bad weather prevented the boat from landing as planned, and Buffett was forced to subsist on canned food and peanut butter, while constantly craving a cheeseburger. When he finally landed on the island of Tortola, his cravings were finally satisfied. There are now 19 Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurants, although Buffett divested himself of his financial interest in the chain in 2012.

• Ray Kroc was already in his late 50’s when he bought the McDonald’s company from the two McDonald brothers in 1961. Now the most successful fast food chain in the world, more than 75 burgers are sold every second of every day worldwide. McDonald’s hires about a million workers in America every year; in fact, about one in every eight American workers has been employed by McDonald’s at one time or another. Five and a half million head of cattle are needed to prepare the burgers served at the restaurants in one year.

• In 1967, McDonald’s introduced “two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun,” the ever popular Big Mac. This cheeseburger with a middle slice of bread to help prevent spillage had two previous names, the Aristocrat and the Blue Ribbon Burger. When neither name seemed to catch on, a 21-year-old secretary in McDonald’s corporate advertising department, Esther Glickstein Rose, came

up with the name Big Mac. The burger made its debut in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, with a selling price of 45 cents. By the following year, all the McDonald’s restaurants had added it to their menu.

• Of the more than 13,000 Burger Kings in 79 countries, about 66% of those are in the United States. More than 11 million people eat at a Burger King somewhere in the world every day. The world’s third largest hamburger chain, BK got its start in Miami, Florida in 1953 as Insta-Burger King. The Whopper was added to the menu in 1957.

• Counting your calories? A Burger King cheeseburger has 360, and McDonald’s has 313. If you want a McD’s double cheeseburger, you’ll consume 459 calories. There are 550 calories in a Big Mac in the United States. In the United Kingdom, that burger is worth only 490 calories, while in Malaysia that number is 484. The lowest Big Mac calorie count is found in Chile at 478, with Japan have the highest at 557. It takes about 153 minutes of brisk walking to burn

off the calories contained in a Big Mac. A slice of cheddar cheese adds about 113 calories to an ordinary burger.

• In case an ordinary cheeseburger isn’t your “cup of tea,” the Texas-based restaurant chain known as the Twisted Root Burger Company offers a variety of unusual game burgers, including venison, kangaroo, beaver, ostrich, emu, boar, alligator, and camel burgers.

• How about a cheeseburger that uses glazed doughnuts in place of a bun? Nicknamed The Luther after singer/songwriter Luther Vandross, who had a weakness for this burger, it can total between 800 and 1,500 calories. You can cut the caloric intake by eliminating the chocolate-covered bacon.

• If you’re feeling really hungry, stop by the BGR Burger Joint in Washington, D.C. and order up The 9-Pounder. This cheeseburger’s final weight is actually 15.4 lbs. (7 kg) after being topped with two heads of lettuce, eight tomatoes, three onions, and four whole pickles. Although it can feed between 10 and 15 people, if one person can eat the whole

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FAMOUS CANADIANS:THE PROPERTY BROTHERS

There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to Canada’s favorite reality stars, The Property Brothers. Here are the details on these handsome real estate experts.

• Each week, HGTV viewers across the U.S. and Canada tune in to watch one or all of Drew and Jonathan Scott’s three hit shows, The Property Brothers, Buying & Selling, or Brother vs. Brother. Ratings on The Property Brothers have broken all of HGTV’s records. With Drew as the real estate agent and Jonathan as remodeling contractor, the 6’4” twins help first-time home buyers find and transform fixer-uppers into their dream home. Jonathan generates a 3-D computer design of what the renovated home will look like, digitally knocking down walls and adding new furnishings. They help the new homeowners stay within their remodeling budget because they’re budget-conscious themselves. As Jonathan jokes, “We’re Scottish, so we’re cheap!”

• Born and raised in Vancouver, B.C., the brothers were entrepreneurs at a very young age. When they turned seven, their father told them they needed to get a job, and the innovative pair started a decorative coat hanger business. They made the hangers themselves and sold them to local

businesses, but before long, a Japanese company was buying crates of their hangers.

• At age 18, the twins bought their first house and renovated it. As college freshmen, they flipped the house for a $50,000 profit. Although real estate seemed to be a good fit for them, the twins both tried their hand at acting first. Drew had a role in season six of Smallville, and Jonathan was in the TV series The X-Files for a short time.

• In college, Jonathan focused on business management while Drew majored in kinesiology and mathematics. Drew participated in a comedy troupe called the Raving Thespians, while Jonathan was a 13-time Canadian karate champion as well as concentrating his efforts on magic and illusion, becoming well-known as one of the world’s youngest international illusionists.

• The twins began investing in real estate as a way to fund various film projects they were interested in. When the property ventures began to pay off, they turned it into their successful series. Yet Drew still found time to produce and direct several movie shorts

and made-for-TV movies.

• As if their three successful TV series aren’t enough, a new series is in the works, one which focuses on their own family home renovation in Las Vegas. The Scott brothers are also collaborating on a new book and developing their own furniture line. Their company Scott Real Estate, Inc. has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, and Las Vegas.

• Although the show features Drew as the real estate expert, both are licensed agents. Jonathan is also a licensed contractor, as well as maintaining a popular award-winning illusionist act in Las Vegas.

• As part of their Scottish heritage, both brothers play the bagpipes and visit family in Scotland on a regular basis.

• Drew and Jonathan were both voted Entertainment Tonight’s 2011 Hottest Canadian TV Bachelors.

• The pair focus their philanthropic efforts on volunteering in the oncology ward at the Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital.

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CHEESEBURGERS (continued):thing in one sitting, it’s free. The restaurant

generously includes a free bottle of Maalox. • New York City’s Serendipity 3 restaurant offers

Le Burger Extravagant, a Japanese Wagyu beef burger infused with white truffle butter, seasoned with smoked Pacific sea salt, topped with hand-formed cheddar cheese, black truffles, and a fried quail egg. The bun is topped with caviar and a diamond-encrusted toothpick. This lunch will set you back $295, and be sure to call 48 hours in advance to order.

• How can Las Vegas’ Burger Brasserie charge $777 for their 777 Burger? It’s a combination of Kobe beef and Maine lobster topped with caramelized onions, imported Brie cheese, crispy prosciutto, and 100-year aged balsamic vinegar. The price is a little high because this entrée includes a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne.

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Canadian Tid-bitsDEAR PAW’S CORNER: Walking my puppy the other day, I struck up a conversation with another dog owner who asked if Max had gotten something called a “parvo” yet. I’m not sure what she meant. Can you enlighten me? -- Gerry

DEAR GERRY: She probably was asking if Max has been vaccinated against parvovirus yet. If you’re keeping up with Max’s recommended veterinary visits and required shots, there’s a good chance he has received this vaccination. However, if you’re not sure, contact Max’s vet and ask for more information and whether Max has received it yet.Parvovirus, or parvo for short, is easily transmitted between dogs, so local epidemics can start quickly. Puppies and senior dogs, or dogs with compromised immune systems, are the most vulnerable to this virus and can die. In fact, the city of Lowell, Mass., just reported that 20 dogs died from parvo infection in August alone. The number prompted the city to sponsor free vaccination clinics to try to stem the spread of the illness. Parvo isn’t contagious to humans.Symptoms of parvovirus in dogs include lethargy, loss of appetite, vomiting and foul-smelling diarrhea. A dog showing any of these symptoms should be taken to the vet right away for treatment, because the severe symptoms along with dehydration can become life-threatening very quickly.Cat owners shouldn’t breathe easy, either. While cats don’t become ill from the same virus that infects dogs, another virus, panleukopenia, has similar dire symptoms and is transmitted between cats in the same way (through fluids or feces). Make sure vaccinations are kept up to date in all pets.

• Frugal doesn’t have to mean unfashionable. There are plenty of how-to instructions on the Internet for turning fashion trash into treasure. For starters, try searching how to turn an old T-shirt into a skirt with a minimum of fuss, then explore sites like Pinterest and Instructables.com for more projects.

• Want a fun way to save? Pick a particular currency item (maybe a $5 bill or dimes) and every time you get one, put it in a jar. See how much you save in a month doing this. See how long you can go without missing the money.

• “To clean a vase with an impossibly skinny neck, try adding a scoop of rice to the vase with a little hot water and dish soap. Shake to scrub.”

• A better use for soda: Use it to scrub your pots and pans. If you have grime and slime, try letting the acids in soda pop work it out for you. Pour enough soda to cover the bottom of the pots or pans and let soak for 5-10 minutes. Then scrub away.

• “When the weather starts to dry out, and my skin along with it, I turn to coconut oil. I keep a jar in the bathroom, and I apply it even before I get out of the shower. My skin gets really red and torn up otherwise. I thought this might help others, too.”

• When choosing an airline seat, you should know that you’ll feel less turbulence at the front of the cabin. Exit rows have more legroom, but they tend to be colder as well. Sound carries forward, so if you don’t want to be bothered by the little ones or random chatter, sit toward the back.

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