A Texan invented the hamburger

Several people claim to be the inventor of the hamburger. The meat came from Germany (Hamburg), but nobody thought to make it into a sandwich until the late 1800s. Our man, Texan Fletcher Davis is supposed to be the guy who introduced the hamburger at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Davis ran a cafe in Athens, Texas and local stories say that he was serving hamburgers as early as the late 1880s. They weren't called hamburgers yet, but they were the real deal.

McDonalds and Dairy Queen have added their two cents to the story. McDonalds says the hamburger was, in fact, introduced at the 1904 World's Fair, but they don't know who introduced it. Dairy Queen once ran an ad that claimed that Athens, Texas, (Davis's hometown) was the birthplace of the hamburger.

So there you go. It took a cowboy to invent the world's most perfect food.