Today is "National Cheeseburger Day!"
Here are some of the places offering special deals today:
- Wendy's: Get a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger for just a penny with any purchase made through the app.
- Burger King: Royal Perks customers get a free cheeseburger with any purchase of $1 or more.
- McDonald's: 50-cent double cheeseburgers when you order exclusively through the McDonald’s app.
- Wahlburgers: Get 50% off on all burgers.
- Whataburger: Loyalty program members who order a Patty Melt, Sweet & Spicy Bacon Burger, or a Whataburger with cheese through the app will be entered to win "Whataburger for a Year."
- Smashburger: Get a Classic Single for only $5.
- Carl's Jr: My Rewards members can get 50% off cheeseburgers.
Some Cheesy Facts:
- Pasadena, California, considers itself the birthplace of the cheeseburger. A 16-year-old named Lionel Sternberger, who worked at his father's sandwich shop, The Rite Spot, got the idea to place a slice of American cheese on a hamburger patty.
- With all due respect to Sternberger and Pasadena, a restaurant called Kaelin's in Louisville, Kentucky, is credited with being the first to call the sandwich a "cheeseburger" in 1934.
- In 1935, the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver trademarked the term "cheeseburger."
- 70% of people say they prefer American cheese on their cheeseburgers, over cheddar (59%), Swiss (40%), and mozzarella (39%). Mozzarella???