{"id":963,"date":"2009-08-21T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2009-08-21T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T20:31:10","slug":"and-now-you-know-the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"And Now You Know&#8230;..The Rest of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody reading this has probably a pretty fair idea of where and when the modern day hamburger or hamburg sandiwch was created. \u00a0 There are a lot of different locations that claim to be the birthplace of the modern hamburger in the U.S., \u00a0little is said about the invention of the bun, and where would burgers be without buns? \u00a0 \u00a0We know that early on, hamburg sandwiches were often served on bread, bakery rolls, and even toast (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louislunch.com\/menu.html\">Louis&#8217; Lunch<\/a>, New Haven, which also claims to be an originator, around 1900).<\/p>\n<p>But the modern 4 1\/2&#8243; bun (sometimes 5&#8243;), \u00a0the modern one, as we know it, became a reality right here in Portland, Oregon, by the <a href=\"http:\/\/usbakery.com\/index.php?page=a-small-bakery-rises\">Franz<\/a> bakery, in the 1920s, \u00a0still locally owned, and still delivering burger buns to a vast majority of burger joints in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>So that makes our precious bun about 90 years old! \u00a0Thank you, Franz!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/franz-logo-png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-964\" title=\"franz logo png\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/franz-logo-png.png\" alt=\"franz logo png\" width=\"512\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody reading this has probably a pretty fair idea of where and when the modern day hamburger or hamburg sandiwch was created. \u00a0 There are a lot of different locations that claim to be the birthplace of the modern hamburger in the U.S., \u00a0little is said about the invention of the bun, and where would&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=963\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And Now You Know&#8230;..The Rest of the Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,35],"tags":[1431,1432,1665,1666,1667],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}