Hamburger Oklahoma in 1891, calling Tulsa, "The Real Birthplace of the Hamburger." Frank and Charles Menches claim to have sold a ground beef sandwich at the Erie County Fair in 1885 in Hamburg, New York. During the fair, they ran out of pork sausage for their sandwiches and substituted beef. Kunzog, who spoke to Frank Menches, says they exhausted their supply of sausage, so purchased chopped up beef from a butcher, Andrew Klein. Historian Joseph Streamer wrote that the meat was from Stein's market not Klein's, despite Stein's having sold the market in 1874. The story notes that the name of
Rudolf Hamburger case of Rudolf Hamburger was evidently one that the government took seriously. Hamburger was held in a wooden building which was attached to a police station in Chongqing for approximately thee weeks. He was interrogated about who he was, who had sent him and what he was doing. No Chinese reports of his interrogations have been accessed, but recalling these events many years later he indicated strongly that he had given nothing away. After eight days the interrogation sessions resumed, now involving serious physical torture, but still Hamburger did not betry his comrades. Early in the morning, after approximately three