Jonathan Gold Quiz: Hamburgers

By Jonathan Gold

Dec. 5, 2012 12:15 PM PT

Did you know there are no hamburgers in Hamburg, Germany? Well, there kind of are, but they are called Frikadeller, and they’re really more like pan-fried meatballs. But if you walk into McDonald’s, there they are -- real hamburgers -- from the Big Mac on down. Won’t you take our hamburger quiz? Ich liebe es, as they say.

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Jonathan Gold

Jonathan Gold was the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2007 and was a finalist again in 2011. A Los Angeles native, he began writing the Counter Intelligence column for the L.A. Weekly in 1986, wrote about death metal and gangsta rap for Rolling Stone and Spin among other places, and was delighted that he managed to forge a career out of the professional eating of tacos. Gold died July 21, 2018.

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