What does Genghis Khan have to do with a hamburger?
Mongolianartist.com and Mongolia Web quote Ask Yahoo! on the hamburger:
The fast food favorite took a long, slow trip from Genghis Khan through Russia and Germany before arriving at McDonald's.
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In the 1200s, Genghis Khan's Mongol armies ate patties of raw lamb scraps, which were tenderized under the soldiers' saddles.
Doubtful if this is historically correct, but a good story nevertheless.
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posted by Guido V @ 17:04
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"In the 1200s, Genghis Khan's Mongol armies ate patties of raw lamb scraps, which were tenderized under the soldiers' saddles."
In world history class, we were taught that Ghenghis Khan's armies would put slices of raw meat under their saddles to prepare them for eating, instead of cooking the meat over a fire. Supposed the army was moving too quickly for the troops to stop and cook dinner normally.
That story stretched my credulity, but slabs of meat sound much more realistic than "scraps of lamb meat", since anything that's in small pieces takes much more time to prepare. And isn't lamb pretty tender to begin with?
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