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====Louis Lassen==== Although debunked by ''[[The Washington Post]]'',<ref name="Washington Post">{{Cite news|title=Who invented the hamburger? Biting into the messy history of America's iconic sandwich.|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/05/28/hamburger-origin-story/|access-date=2021-12-16|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> a popular myth recorded by Connecticut Congresswoman [[Rosa DeLauro]] stated the first hamburger served in America was by Louis Lassen, a Danish immigrant, after he opened [[Louis' Lunch]] in [[New Haven]] in 1895.<ref name="James">[[Rosa L. DeLauro]] (2000). [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/CT/200002814.html Louis' Lunch]. the [[Library of Congress]].</ref> Louis' Lunch, a small lunch wagon in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], is said to have sold the first hamburger and [[steak sandwich]] in the U.S. in 1900.<ref>[http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ct/es_ct_burger_1.html Louis' Lunch A Local Legacy]. Library of Congress. Americaslibrary.gov. Retrieved on April 21, 2013.</ref><ref>U.S. Library of Congress Folklife Center Local Legacies Project retrieved on April 13, 2009 [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/CT/200002814.html Louis' Lunch A Local Legacy]</ref><ref>[http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/cwp/view.asp?a=843&q=246434 About Connecticut]. State of Connecticut official website</ref> ''[[New York Magazine]]'' states that "The dish actually had no name until some rowdy sailors from Hamburg named the meat on a bun after themselves years later", also noting that this claim is subject to dispute.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=New York Magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42|title=Roadfood|author1=Jane Stern|author2=Michael Stern |year = 1977 |page=42 |issn=0028-7369}}</ref> A customer ordered a quick hot meal and Louis was out of steaks. Taking ground beef trimmings, Louis made a patty and grilled it, putting it between two slices of toast.<ref name="Origin2"/> Some critics such as Josh Ozersky, a food editor for ''New York Magazine'', claim that this sandwich was not a hamburger because the bread was toasted.<ref name=Beach />
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