In East Germany, Nutritionists Turn Burger Boosters
Nutrition experts in East Germany are rallying behind one of the capitalist world’s favorite foods--the hamburger.
A government nutrition newspaper said those who consider hamburgers “frightful clumps of meat” or the “most insipid product on the face of the Earth” are mistaken.
Nutrition Research, in an edition obtained Saturday, pointed out that hamburgers are popular around the world and that the trend “will not stop at the borders of the German Democratic Republic.”
There are about 350 fast-food restaurants in East Germany, the newspaper said.
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