Sandwiches made with cooked ground beef and melted cheese between two slices of bread, often a classic American food.
'Cheese' comes from Latin 'caseus'; 'burger' is short for 'Hamburg,' Germany, referring to Hamburg steak. The cheeseburger combination emerged in the 1930s-1950s in American diners and became iconic.
The cheeseburger's history is surprisingly global: it combines beef from German 'Hamburg steak,' served American-diner style with bread, and topped with cheese—yet it's become THE symbol of American fast food, showing how nations adopt and transform borrowed foods.
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