It’s known to all that the hamburger is a popular
American food. So, many people think the Americans made hamburgers first.
However, people in the US learned to make it from the Germans and the Germans
got the idea from the Russians. Thousands of years ago, the
Tartar people from Asia moved into Russia and the place around it. They fought
with the Russians and won. They ate something like hamburger meat, but it was
raw (生的). This raw meat was beef, mutton and horse meat. Soon the Russians
started to eat raw meat, too. Then Germans learned to eat this food from the
Russians. But they also ate other things, such as eggs, and then cooked it. Many
years later, some Germans moved to the United States and they brought in
hamburgers. People called it hamburger steak (牛排). Later, people ate it with
their hands, like a sandwich. This was the first real hamburger like the
hamburger we eat today. Now, some people still like to eat raw
beef. They call it "steak tartare". Americans came up with the idea of hamburgers first.