Hamburger History/Tacos Takeover

Which of the following is the main idea of "Hamburger History"?

• Several people have claimed credit for inventing the hamburger.

• Walt Anderson and White Castle made hamburgers popular.

• Burgers are the most popular food in Germany.

• People like to watch food being made.

Which detail could be added to "Hamburger History" to support the main idea?

• "In the 1800s, millions of Germans came to the U.S."

• "Fast-food restaurants like White Castle have earned billions of dollars selling hamburgers."

• "Many people, like Anderson, have claimed they invented the hamburger."

• "They called it the Hamburg steak, after the German city of Hamburg."

What detail from the article shows that Anderson had a challenge introducing the burger to America?

• Butchers put spoiled meat and scraps in ground beef.

• They let people watch as workers cooked the fresh meat.

• Ground beef was cheap in America.

• But the food was taking too long to cook.

What was Walter Anderson's goal when he opened his restaurant?

• to make meatballs popular

• to convince people that hamburgers were safe to eat

• to make German food popular

• to share his favorite food with the world

"Tacos Take Over" shows that Glen Bell's idea for a fast-food taco restaurant was ___________.

• a success

• a failure

• nothing new

• quickly forgotten

Which sentence from the article supports idea that Bell's restaurant was a success?

• "What was happening in there?"

• "And was the taco really so exotic?"

• "He took his first bite."

• "Today, there are more than 5,500 Taco Bell restaurants in the U.S."

The author, Lauren Tarshis, writes that when Glen Bell tasted his first taco, he "tasted his future." What does Tarshis mean?

• Most American were not bold eaters.

• Bell later built a career and company around tacos.

• Bell sped up the process of making tacos.

• Bell ate tacos every day afterward.

What can you infer, or tell from clues in the text, about the time in which Glen Bell lived?

• Americans traveled to Mexico often.

• Most Americans ate fairly plain food.

• Many German people visited California.

• Americans were not very hungry.

Why did Glen Bell first become interested in selling tacos?

• He had eaten them in Mexico.

• He saw a taco restaurant in California that had a lot of customers and wanted to know why.

• He know that everyone would want to eat tacos.

• They had been his favorite food for years, and he wanted to share them with others.

The articles "Hamburger History" and "Tacos Take Over" are both mostly about ______________.

• men who invented new foods

• food from other countries being made popular in America

• immigrants bringing recipes to America and making them popular

• how food with bad beef was making people sick.