But while their pieces perhaps aren’t exactly timely, they will certainly make for interesting reads in a few decades—just like this throwback piece on a California fad called “cheeseburgers” from 1938. In a new column called “First Glimpses,” the Times is looking back at the first time certain words or phrases were used in their record of note.
When “cheeseburger” was first mentioned in the October 1938 article, it was in a long list about the “whimsy” of California eateries. Then, nine years later in May 1947, the Timesrevisited the fad, writing, “At first, the combination of beef with cheese and tomatoes, which sometimes are used, may seem bizarre.” But luckily, their intrepid reporter could see the bigger picture. “If you reflect a bit, you’ll understand the combination is sound gastronomically.”
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