Every Sunday since kindergarten, I looked forward to driving through Mc. Donalds to get my favorite Happy Meal Set; getting a cheese burger and a toy was my motivation to wake up early, go to church and obey my parents when I was young. There were boxes full of toys I collected from eating Happy Meals and I remember the day I had to give it away that I felt like a family member was going away and I almost cried. My parents knew that my favorite food was cheeseburgers, so wherever the family travelled to, we would find the best burger place in city. There are many things I recall from my childhood but these particular memories relating to hamburger always cause me to be nostalgic.
I chose the book 'The Hamburger' by Josh Ozersky mainly because it was the most familiar topic out of the Icons of America. I knew that no matter what the ideas the book had to share with me, I would be interested and be excited to learn more about the it. Hamburgers have always been a part of my life growing up and still, and the fact that I knew so little about the history, significance and power it had on different cultures, and how it became to be one of the icons of America, I was ready to read and find out more about it.
"Studying its story is one way of studying the country that invented it, and then reinvented it again and again... the meat of the hamburger's meaning lies in how it changed the world, and why," the author says as he introduces the book,The Hamburger by Josh Ozersky; I am thrilled to start my reading about hamburgers as an icon of America!
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