European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6stories by . Kominicki photos by Dave Didio p i picture your favorite outlet of ground beef patties. Its plate Glass windows lean seductively Forward its parking lot full tubular lights flashing brightly against a mottled sky. Quot Fri Kadelle King a the sign says. Or so it might have been had America not settled for the rather humdrum name hamburger in the etymology of eats for the now Ever present Patty. Fri Kadelle is from the French fricassee by Way of Italy where they spiced up the ending and sent it on to Germany which has kept the word alive. The name hamburger comes via the tartars who doted on the raw chopped meat we still know As Steak tartar. German sailors plying the Baltic sea brought the tartan treat Home to Hamburg and the hamburger Steak was born. It was that name that eventually emigrated West and by the mid-1800s, America was using the word to describe any of the varied beef sandwiches a including Fri Kadelle a brought through Ellis Island. Hey what do you expect from a people who dubbed belgian potatoes Quot French Fries Quot m Wmk w ? f to Quot be of Vav Muf ii .iii1ii s i is a v get �?�11 a Quot 1# la s Quot a m Mhz tar 1 i the International tale of the King Burger ack in Egypt in the year 2,000 . Or so the wealthy had their slaves Chew but not Swallow Tough Nile beef. The softened stuff was passed to the rulers who could then Swallow the meat More easily and eat it faster. An idea was bom. Flash ahead a couple of thousand years. European immigrants who had taken that ground up beef and turned it into patties Are bringing it with them to the United states. Its 1904. Louis lunch a red bricked cafe in new Haven conn., is doing a brisk business with a menu entered around ground beef on a Bun. Vendors at the St. Louis exposition which also helped introduce the ice Cream Cone Are Busy pushing the Patty. Lilllie i s sunday april 29,1990
