A Hamburger Today
Cool Event: National Hamburger Festival
Hear ye, hear ye: The inaugural National Hamburger Festival will come to session August 12 to 13 in Akron, Ohio.
Events will include Best Burger (amateur and restaurant divisions), the Miss Hamburger Festival competition (rrrawwwrrr), and Bobbing for Burgers: "Pluck as many hamburgers [as possible] from a baby pool filled with ketchup in 3 minutes."
Perhaps most intriguing, though, to students of hamburger history are the Hamburger Hearings: "a mock trial featuring representatives from the four cities and families that claim to have invented the beloved Hamburger."
For the record, those cities and familes are: The Menches Bros. (Akron, Ohio), Hamburger Charlie (Seymour, Wisconsin), Fletcher Davis (Austin, Texas), and Louis Lassen (Louis' Lunch; New Haven, Connecticut).
The National Hamburger Festival [Official Website]