Re: Origins of Hamburger Parallel Human Evolution

From: richard01 (richardparker01_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/27/04


Date: 27 Sep 2004 04:44:29 -0700


"Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@skynet.be> wrote in message news:<4156d7cf$0$24596$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>...
> :-D
>
> "richard01" <richardparker01@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:6e30eb22.0409260247.4a3254f@posting.google.com...
> > Origins of Hamburger Parallel Human Evolution
> >
> > Chuck 'Flipper' Wilson(1), Hendrik van der Merwe(2), Barry McKenzie(3)
> > (1)McDonalds University, Wichita, Kansas
> > (2)Boersville University, South Africa
> > (3)Earls Court Road, London (AWOL from University of Wagga Wagga,
> > Australia)
> >
> > The evolution of the modern and ubiquitous hamburger (perhaps the most
> > popular single human food item of all time) from pounded meat (fresh
> > or otherwise) eaten by Homo erectus (confirmed by Ar-Ar-Ar dating and
> > DNA analysis of a scrap of gristle found between two upper molars of
> > 'Nariokotome Boy'), via the dead-end German 'Hamburger' to the modern
> > degraded product encountered from Peking to Paris clearly follows the
> > same path as the 'Great Progress from Ape to Man'.
> > Here we present the results of an in-depth analysis of this
> > hypothesis, conducted over several hours in a congenial atmosphere.
> > Progress from Homo erectus' pounded meat (2Mya) to the Middle
> > Paleolithic is unclear, and will have to await the discovery of
> > further specimens. Sophisticated linguistic analysis of the word
> > 'hamburger' suggests an origin in Germany, but that branch of the
> > hamburger family seems to have died out, as did Homo neanderthalensis.
> > The real flowering of the genus may have happened in France, closely
> > following the Aurignacians, Solutreans, and Gravettians, and reached
> > its zenith as 'Steak Tartare' in the Magdalenian period. The final
> > exponential expansion and degradation of the modern hamburger has
> > followed the populating, by descendants of Magdalenians and Piltdown
> > Man, (perhaps even some Neanderthals), of the New World.
> > (Journal of Nonscience - Vol XXXIII pp 415-417 - October 2004)

But let me acknowledge that the addition, by Australians, of
pineapple, beetroot, cheese, lettuce, pickled onions and other
esoterica to their hamburgers merely proves their dominance over the
gastronomical hierarchy of mankind.

They have to have something to make their beer taste good.



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