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Louis' Lunch — Home of the Hamburger

New Haven, CT

Louis' Lunch claims to have served the first hamburger sandwich in 1900 and still cooks its burgers vertically in antique cast-iron broilers. The tiny restaurant also famously resists ketchup, preserving an unusually strict piece of food history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Roadside America

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