The History of Snacks )
The Hamburger The hamburger started life as small pieces of raw beef which were eaten by the Tartars, a tribe who invaded Europe in the Middle Ages. Before eating it, they used to put the meat on their horse under the saddle they were sitting on in order to make it soft. When the Tartars arrived in Hamburg, the people mixed the beef with local spices, fried it and called it the Hamburg Steak. Germans who emigrated to the USA took this recipe with them and it became known as a hamburger there. The Sandwich People say that John Montague, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, invented the sandwich. Montague enjoyed playing cards in his favourite restaurant, the Beef Steak Club in London. He could be found there most days and some of his games lasted for hours. One day, instead of stopping to eat lunch, Montague asked a servant to bring him some meat between two slices of bread to prevent the cards from getting dirty. When the other players saw this, ...