National Double Cheeseburger Day is enjoyed every year on September 15. This iconic food item is way up on the charts of everyone’s favourite foods. Full credit has to go to the person who decided that double cheese is better than single cheese. After all, one can never have too much cheese, right?
Enjoy a delicious double cheeseburger at one of Australia's premier fast food establishments, and while you're at it, enjoy a geo-chat with others.
Where: McDonald's, 290 Enoggera Rd, Newmarket Qld 4051
When: 18:00 - 18:30 hr, Thursday 15/09/2022.
[Note: The CO will be present at the event location for the scheduled event duration.]
Please log your "Will Attend" by Tuesday 13/09/2022 to assist with a table booking.
Note: All are welcome. Eating and drinking is optional.
History of National Double Cheeseburger Day
National Double Cheeseburger Day was made to celebrate the birth of the double cheeseburger, and by extension the cheeseburger itself.
While it may seem the most natural thing in the world to add cheese to a hamburger these days, originally a hamburger was a very simple affair. Simply meat, bread and condiments were pretty much all that a hamburger had going for it.
The first person who is said to have created the cheeseburger was Lionel Sternberger in Pasadena, California. The story goes that Lionel created it while working at his father’s sandwich shop in 1926 when he was only 16 years old. A sizzling piece of hamburger seemed to be just begging for something a little extra, and so a piece of cheese was added to see what came out.
What came out, obviously, was magic. It wasn’t long before someone realized that a single sizzling patty of hamburger topped with melting cheese wasn’t the best thing in life, not when you could have two sizzling patties of hamburger topped with melting cheese!
The birth of the double cheeseburger was as inevitable as the cheeseburger itself, and National Double Cheeseburger Day celebrates it all!
COVID-19 mitigations:
- All attendees will be expected to sign in their contact details for traceability purposes only (via QR code); and
- Hand sanitiser will be available.
Note: This event may be cancelled at short notice due to COVID-19 concerns.