Question: What Texas town claims to be the birthplace of the hamburger?
Answer: Athens. According to former Dallas Morning News columnist Frank X. Tolbert, Fletcher Davis of Athens began cooking up ground beef sandwiches with pickles, onions, and mustard in his cafe on the courthouse square in the 1880s. In 1904, he took his popular creation to the St. Louis World’s Fair, after which other entrepreneurs started selling hamburgers throughout the country.
McDonald’s acknowledged Davis as the creator of the hamburger in their Hamburger University corporate training. In 2007, the Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution affirming that claim, naming Athens the “Original Home of the Hamburger.”