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A cheeseburger is a hamburger with cheese. Traditionally, the cheese is placed on top of the patty, but the burger can include many variations in structure, ingredients and composition. The term itself is a portmanteau of the words "cheese" and "hamburger." The cheese is usually sliced, and then added to the cooking hamburger patty shortly before the patty is completely cooked which allows the cheese to melt. Cheeseburgers are often served with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, mustard, mayonnaise or ketchup.
In fast food restaurants, the cheese used is typically processed cheese, but there are variations, such as cheddar, Swiss cheese, mozzarella, blue cheese and pepper jack. When cheese is added to a burger the nutritional value of the burger can be changed substantially. For example, a slice of Cheddar cheese can add 95 calories and 4.5 grams of saturated fat to a burger. Other types and amounts of cheese would have varying effects, depending on their nutritional content.
Adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in the mid-1920s to mid-1930s, and there are several competing claims as to who created the first cheeseburger. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have invented the cheeseburger in the mid-1920s at the age of 16 when he was working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop, "The Rite Spot," and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger."
James William "Jimmy" Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is an American singer–songwriter, film producer, businessman, and author. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett has recorded hit songs including "Margaritaville" (ranked 234th on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of "Songs of the Century"), and "Come Monday". He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads".
Aside from his career in music, Buffett is also a best-selling writer and is involved in two restaurant chains named after two of his best known songs, "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Margaritaville". He owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain and co-developed the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant concept with OSI Restaurant Partners (parent of Outback Steakhouse), which operates the chain under a licensing agreement with Buffett.
Buffett spent part of his childhood in Mobile, Alabama. In grade school years, he attended St. Ignatius School, where he played the trombone in the school band. He later lived in Fairhope, Alabama, mentioned by himself as his "Home Town" during a 2001 concert. He graduated high school from McGill Institute for Boys (now McGill-Toolen Catholic High School) in 1964. He began playing guitar during his college years at Pearl River Community College, The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Auburn University where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1969. He was initiated into the fraternity Kappa Sigma (ΚΣ) at the University of Southern Mississippi. After graduating from college, Buffett worked as a correspondent for Billboard magazine in Nashville, breaking the news of the separation of Flatt and Scruggs.
I want a hamburger
I want a slab of rare beef with blood streaking from it
Because that's the way I like it
I don't want an ordinary burger
I want a super burger
Not a quarter pounder, not a half pounder, not a three quarter pounder
I want a real Whopper
Give me a pound of raw meat
With flies chasing after it
I wanna eat it all
I wanna put the whole thing in my mouth...
I want it with all the works too:
Mustard, ketchup, onions, relish, tomatoes, lettuce
And bring me horseradish and a bottle of Tobasco
Because I like my burgers hot and spicy
Then get the cheese:
I'll take some American cheese, Cheddar cheese, Limburger cheese, Pepper cheese
And mix it all together 'cause I like a little variety in my meal
And cheese is as American as apple pie
I wanna eat it all
I wanna put the whole thing in my mouth...
Until every bit is chewed, swallowed and rolling and turning in my stomach
I'm going to hold it back in my stomach
And wait until I meet a man-Just the right man
You know...the man wearing a flannel suit
And the pinpoint Oxford shirt from Brooks Brothers
With a paisley tie
Who looks at me with lust in his eyes
And thinks he is the conqueror of the Earth
Because he's moderately successful and uptight
And I'm going to puke it out all over him
On his tie and on his shirt and on his suit
And I won't stop puking all over him
Until he admits
That his love and his lust and his god
Are living in his crotch
And he realizes who and what his creator is
And why he is looking at me with lust in his eyes
I also want a diet Coke
And some french fries too
I wanna eat it all