TODAY - November 12
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: NOVEMBER 12
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here
in Belgium 7 hours and 22 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 9 hours
and 7 minutes – from 07.53 to 17.01.
See more – also in
English – on www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
This day is called TORKIL's DAY. It has been like that since 1725. But nobody
knows any longer, what the reason is. There are no saints with that name.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1859: Charles Darwin publishes the book "The Origin of
Species”. Many Christians got very angry with the book and its findings.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
Hamburger – what is that ? And
where does the word come from?
Of course, the word is the name of the inhabitants in the city of Hamburg in Germany. But it is
more than that.
It is the name of a special burger, a sort of sandwich, you can say. A
piece of minced beef between two pieces of bread. It can take many forms, and
it is normally hot, when it is served. There are many different types of
hamburgers, of course. It depends on who makes them – and in what part of the
world you are.
But the question here is: Where does the name come from?
The best known explanation is that it comes from New York at the end of
the 19th century. Lots of Jewish immigrants arrived from Hamburg to
the city. Many of them could not find any work. As Jews are often full of
initiative some of them started the production of “fast food” – some beef
between two pieces of bread. That dish was soon sold all over New York and
became a huge success. And as the producers came from Hamburg it wasn’t
surprising that this new lunch food soon was called a hamburger.
There are other explanations such as the story that it comes from the
small town of Hamburg in upstate New York. A town called Hamburg (56.000 inh.)
near the border to Canada. I do not believe in that explanation.
I believe more in a third explanation: that the hamburger is invented by
a Dane, Louis Lassen. He was
originally a mechanic, had immigrated to the US in the 1880ies and lived in the
small town of New
Haven in Connecticut north of New York.
After a few years he bought a railway car and started a small kiosk with
food. And when a client one day came into the kiosk and asked for something to
eat in a rush as he had to leave quickly Louis grapped a piece of meat and
wrapped it between two pieces of bread.
The hamburger was invented. Louis
claimed for the rest of his life that he in this way invented the hamburger.
And his restaurant Louis’ Lunch
still exists in New Haven and claims that it is the only restaurant in the
world, which invented the hamburger and continues to serve it! Why is it then called a hamburger? Perhaps because Louis came from the small
village Hamborg in the west of Denmark?
This still has to be found out!
But enjoy your next hamburger with all this knowledge. If it is good and
tasty!
By the way: a small not too serious thought linked to hamburger: We all remember, when president Kennedy
during a visit to Berlin in 1963 ended his speech with the famous words: Ich bin ein Berliner! So why did Reagan never visit
Hamburg? How should he have ended his
speech ?!
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Roskilde Peace Treaty of 1658 - what is that?
THE EUROPEAN QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
What is the EU defense cooperation?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
To make the
truth more likely you always have to mix it with some lies.
This was once said by the Russian
author Fjodor Dostojevski.
2.
Today’s quote:
In
today's society it is almost only the artists, who do their work with joy.
Who has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1684: Edward Vernon ( ”Old Grog” ) ( died 1757 )
1833: Alexander Borodin ( died 1887 )
1840: Auguste Rodin ( died 1917 )
1866: Sun Yat-sen ( died 1925 )
1929: Grace Kelly ( died 1982 )
1961: Nadia Comaneci
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1035: Cnut the Great ( 40 years )
1667: Hans Nansen ( 69 years )
1720: Peter Wessel Tordenskjold ( 30 years )
1948: Umberto Giordano ( 81 years )
1987: Cornelis Vreeswijk ( 50 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
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