{"id":5555,"date":"2011-12-05T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/the-cheeseburger-20th-century-revolution\/"},"modified":"2011-12-05T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T19:56:00","slug":"the-cheeseburger-20th-century-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/the-cheeseburger-20th-century-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheeseburger: 20th Century Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/impractical-cheeseburger\/'>The Cheeseburger: 20th Century Revolution?<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Waldo Jaquith ruminates on the &ldquo;impracticality of a cheeseburger:&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>it\u2019s quite impractical\u2014nearly impossible\u2014to make a cheeseburger from  scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season  in the fall. Mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of  making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently  involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly  expensive\u2014requiring a trio of cows\u2014and demand many acres of land.  There\u2019s just no sense in it.<\/p>\n<p>A cheeseburger cannot exist outside  of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex  interaction between a handful of vendors\u2014in all likelihood, a couple of  dozen\u2014and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping  them fresh.  The cheeseburger couldn\u2019t have existed until nearly a  century ago as, indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_hamburger_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">it did not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes you wonder what commonplace item we&rsquo;ll take for granted a century from now that&rsquo;s &ldquo;impractical&rdquo; or even impossible right now&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/12\/i-cheeseburger\" target=\"_blank\"><em>kottke<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cheeseburger: 20th Century Revolution? Waldo Jaquith ruminates on the &ldquo;impracticality of a cheeseburger:&rdquo; it\u2019s quite impractical\u2014nearly impossible\u2014to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in the fall. Mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/the-cheeseburger-20th-century-revolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cheeseburger: 20th Century Revolution?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}