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FRIDAY EVENTS
August 6, 2010
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Balloon Ascension
8 p.m.
Balloon Glow (at dusk)
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Bun Run—start at Lake Park
Car Show—Depot Street
9 a.m.
KNX Band—at Chase Bank
10:45
Kids’ Bun Run—
a.m.
starts at Main St. & Factory St.
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World’s Largest Hamburger
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11 a.m.
starts on South Main St.
Led by Lion’s Club
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3 p.m.
Burger Press
Strength Competition
Serving the “GIANT BURGER”
Motorcycle Awards
Battle of the Youth Bands
4:30 p.m. Ketchup Slide
5 p.m.
8 p.m.
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at the 22nd Annual
Burger Fest, “Burgers Gone Wild” on
Saturday, Aug. 7.
Seymour holds
the legacy and
the title of having
the first ground
beef
sandwich,
known today as
the hamburger.
Charlie “Hamburger Charlie”
Nagreen flattened
meatballs between
two pieces of
bread at the
Seymour
Fair in 1885
to accomm o d a t e
fair -goers
who wanted
to eat while
still
visiting
exhibits.
Burgers and
balloons
will
kick-off Burger
Fest on Friday
evening,
Aug.
6, at Seymour’s
Rock
Ledge
School, 330 West
Hickory St, with
a hot air balloon
rally and balloon
glow, weather permitting. Hardee’s®
kids events will begin at 4 p.m.
In the spirit of “Burgers Gone
Wild,” a Hardee’s® Build a Burger Contest will take place at 6:30
p.m. Pre-registered local contestants will attempt to build the
wildest burger using the Hardee’s®
Thickburger® patty. Judges for
the event will be Tom
Nelson,
Democratic
candidate for
Wisconsin
lieutenant
gover nor;
Chance
Williams,
assistant
program director
for
Y100 radio,
Green
Bay;
and Gary Collins,
Hardee’s. Food and
burgers aplenty will be available throughout
the evening.
Events on Saturday, Aug. 7,
include:
• 8 a.m. - Get
your “buns” to Lake
Park for the Bun
Run.
Kids race
will start at 10:45
a.m. at the entrance to the festival grounds on
Main Street.
• 11 a.m. Line up for the
World’s Largest
Hamburger Parade. Leading
the parade will
be a 100-mile
motorcycle charity ride.
• For car lovers, there’s an antique car show, sponsored by
Neshek’s Auto Body. Awards at 2
p.m.
The focus then shifts to the Burger Fest grounds on Depot Street.
• 1 p.m. - Get your fill at the
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Hardee’s® ThickBurger® Eating
Contest.
• 1:30 p.m. - Watch local contestants go head-to-head in the Hamburger “Meat” weightlifting competition.
• 2:30 p.m. - A giant burger will
be grilled and served to Burger
Fest guests on a first come, first
serve basis. Monetary
donations will go to the Seymour
Food Pantry.
• 4:30 p.m. - Always a crowd favorite, the DQ Grill & Chill Ketchup Slide competition.
• Children’s activities including
a big wheel race, a magic show, a
baby crawl, free
pony
rides,
Coonen
Quick Stop
face painting and much more
will take place throughout
the day.
• Starting at 9 a.m., listen
and dance to live music by
KNX Party Band, Starwood,
and Country Rewind.
• 25 hot air balloons will
fly
the
sky
Friday
and Saturday at 6
p.m. and
Saturday
and Sunday at 6
a.m. Balloon glows
will follow
the balloon
rallies
on
Friday and
Saturday
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evening.
Applications for the parade, car
show, Bun Run, Motorcycle Charity Ride and additional information
about Burger Fest can be found at
www.homeofthehamburger.org.
Commemorative admission buttons, available at many Seymour
businesses, are $3 in advance and
$5 on the day of event.
Friday events and children 12
and under are free.
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22 YeaRs of BurGer FesT HiStoRY
AUG 5,
5 1989
AUG.
Remember the first
Burger Fest? Admission buttons were only
a dollar and about
20,000 people packed
the Outagamie County
Fairgrounds to feast on
the world-record 5,520
pound hamburger. To
rehearse for the feat, a
50 pound “mini-burger”
was fried up a couple
months earlier. It was
a success, so what’s
another few thousand
pounds of ground beef?
There were plans to
paint the city’s south
water tower to resemble
a giant burger, but the
cost of the project was
out of reach. Instead,
the tower was wrapped
with a yellow banner
proclaiming Seymour as
the Home of the Hamburger.
Green Bay Dressed
Beef has played a major role in the festival
every year, and along
with Bank One, supplied a semi-truck full of
balloons which were released two weeks before
Burger Fest. Some of the
balloons contained prize
coupons, including one
for a $500 savings bond
from Valley Bank.
The annual See-More
People Run changed its
name to the Bun Run
and kicked off the event.
With more than 200
units, the World’s Largest Hamburger Parade
was a sight to behold.
The Hamburger Olympics featured a grill
throw, bun toss, builda-burger
relay
and
ketchup slide.
People
Magazine,
network news crews
and newspapers from
around the country captured the unveiling of
the world’s largest burger.
AUG. 4, 1990
Drum and bugle corps
competition was added
in 1990. It was also the
year that “Hamburger
Patty” and “Bunard”
were united in a marriage.
One idea that didn’t
work out was the “Mile
O Burgers.” It was
hoped that people would
line Main Street and eat
their burgers in a wave,
but it just didn’t work
out that way.
AUG. 3, 1991
The burger was back,
this time with cheese.
A one-ton cheeseburger
was cooked up. A fork lift
hoisted a 325 pound roll
of American cheese over
the burger but problems arose when the
pipe holding the cheese
began to bend. A crane
was brought in to hold
the pipe in place. Soft
ground caused the lift
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had to be used to keep it
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AUG. 8, 1992
An expectant Hamburger Patty made her
appearance at Burger
Fest and there was a
contest to name the
burger twins. Winning
names were “Chuckie
Weldon” and Barbi-Q.”
A packed grandstand
watched as Dr. Duedate
delivered the youngsters.
The crowd was treated
to thousands of baby
burgers to commemorate the blessed event.
The beds in the bed races were also designed to
look like cribs in honor
of the newborns.
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22 YeaRs of BurGer FesT HiStoRY
AUG. 6-7, 1993
CBS Morning News
was on hand Friday
morning to note the
opening of the Hamburger Hall of Fame.
Jeffrey
Tenneson,
author of Hamburger
Heaven, displayed his
huge collection of hamburger memorabilia at
the Hall’s opening.
A hamburger mural
on the south wall of the
Hall of Fame building
on Main Street was unveiled. Painted by Mike
Linsmeyer with help
from Chance Harrison
and David Petri, the mural depicts Hamburger
Charlie,
Hamburger
Patty and Bunard, their
twins, Tennyson’s book
and Seymour’s water
tower.
A one-ton burger was
grilled and served.
Seymour’s Jason Rottier set a new ketchup
slide record at 162 feet 3
inches.
AUG. 5-6, 1994
What do you do if your
name is Hamburger?
Why you become the
honorary parade marshals for the World’s
Largest Hamburger Pa-
rade. That’s just what
the Wayne and Amanda
Hamburger family of El
Dorado, Ill. did for Burger Fest.
A special ceremony
was held Friday for the
Hamburger Hall of Fame
to induct its first member - Hamburger Charlie
Nagreen. His daughter,
Violet Bauerke, accepted
the honor.
Also on Friday, the Vlasik Stork and architect
Bob Martens unveiled a
model of a three-story,
hamburger-shaped hall
of fame that Home of the
Hamburger planned to
build one day.
AUG 4-5, 1995
The theme was All
American Burgers and
the chefs cooked up
several different types
of burgers, including
sloppy joes. Instead of
a 2,000 pound burger,
a 1,000 pounder was
made and consumed as
fast as volunteers could
cut, wrap and serve it.
The
U.S.
Olympic
Committee objected to
the use of the Olympic
name, so the winning
entry in a Times-Press
contest renamed the
event the Hamburger
Meet.
The Bun Run drew
499 runners for its largest turnout to date.
AUG. 3, 1996
The theme was “Burgers out of this World.”
An attempt was made to
form the world’s longest
line dance, but it wasn’t
quite long enough.
A 1,000 pound patty
was fried and served.
AUG. 2, 1997
The frying of a giant 24
foot-24 foot hamburger
highlighted “Happy Days
Again at Burger Fest” as
Seymour returned to the
car hop era of the 1950s
and 60s.
The day started with
the
annual
Burger
Breakfast at Hotel Seymour, followed by the
Bun Run, parade and
games.
AUG. 1, 1998
Depot Street became
home to the annual salute to Burgerdom and
let visitors get a good
taste of what life in Seymour is like.
A new addition was a
classic car show. Dozens
of shiny, mint condition
cars were on display.
Jason Rottier broke
his old Ketchup Slide
record after he slid the
entire length of the 200foot slide and crashed
into the hay bales at the
end of the slide.
A 10th anniversary
was something to celebrate!
The day began with
the traditional Bun Run,
a parade, car show and
an arts and craft show.
AUG. 7, 1999
More than 3,000 people crowded downtown
Seymour.
Charles Rottier, Seymour, won the Ketchup
Slide with a 179 feet, 9
inches.
Michelle Shelly of Goshen, Ind. won the women’s competition with a
slide of 69 feet, 4 inches.
Shelly and her family
were passing through
the area on vacation,
saw the festival signs
and just couldn’t help
donning a swim suit and
sliding through ketchup.
On Labor Day, 1999,
the small town of Saco,
Mont. made a successful effort to wrest away
Seymour’s world record,
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AUG. 4, 2001
Chief Chef Steve Krabbe and his crew of Bill
Maass, Jerry Maass,
Wayne Gagnow, Tom
Eick and Lennie Matuszak grilled FOUR
TONS of ground beef in
an attempt to recapture
the Guinnes World Record title.
The “Charlie Grill” was
designed for the 1989
feat and was called back
into active duty, with a
few modifications.
“We had eight holes
put in the top of the
grill with sliding covers
on them,” Krabbe said.
“That let us regulate the
heat better, similar to a
Weber grill.
The half-inch grease
drains were replaced
with one-inch drains to
accommodate the larger
burger.
The burger was unloaded from a refrigerated truck and packed
5,520 pound burger,
cooked a hamburger
with a pre-cooked weight
of 6,040 pounds.
AUG. 3, 2000
The theme for the new
century was “Sliding
into the New Millenium.”
Along with a car and
antique tractor show,
about 5,000 Burger Fest
revelers turned out for
the annual extravaganza.
This year, the burger
had a Cajun flavor as
chefs Dale Palubicki,
Greg Matuszak and Jerry Maass added spices
to the the treat.
Roger Larson, Seymour, took the Ketchup
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People lined up down
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The unofficial weight
of the giant burger was
8,266 pounds. Although
it dwarfed Saco, Montana’s effort, technicalities kept it out of the
Guiness World Book of
Records.
Seymour
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the Ketchup Slide with
a 167-foot, 4-inch slide.
Barbie Bloedorn was the
woman’s champ at 67
feet, 7 inches.
AUG. 3, 2002
Balloons made their
second appearance at
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A new rivalry was
born. John Menches of
Uniontown, Ohio made
the claim that his grandfather, Charles and his
brother, Frank, actually
created the first beef patty sandwich and named
it after Hamburg, N.Y. in
1885.
Menches was on hand
to pose for pictures and
entertain the crowd.
Sonya Thomas, a 107
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ers in 10 minutes.
The
world-famous
Ketchup Slide returned
to the festival.
Sliders came from as
far away as Anaheim,
Calif. “This is my mecca,”
Gary Robinson said.
AUG. 4, 2004
Burger
Fest
2004
brought the Jimmy Buffet-inspired theme of
“Charlie Burgers in Paradise” for the 16th annual
event.
Festivities began Friday afternoon with a
burger cook-off. Erica
Wasielewski won the
grand prize for her “Cajun Muffaletta Burger.”
The Bun Run returned
with Tyler Sigl finishing
first in 15:57.
Jesus Haro of Green
Bay gobbled down fourand-a-quarter Hardee’s
Thick Burgers in 12 minutes.
Jessica Gilbert set a
new woman’s record in
the Ketchup Slide with
a 101 foot, 7 inch slide
while Littlebear Webster
won the men’s title with
a 184 foot, 7 inch slide.
AUG. 6, 2005
A statue commemorating Seymour’s favorite citizen, Hamburger
Charlie Nagreen was
dedicated.
The statue was commissioned by the Home
of the Hamburger and
was constructed by fiberglass sculptor David
Oswald.
Jesus Haro repeated
as the Hardee’s Thickburger Eating Contest
Winner, this time scarfing down four-and-twothirds burgers.
AUG. 5, 2006
Seymour was declared
the National Home of the
Hamburger following a
mock trial at the first National Hamburger Festival in Akron, Ohio.
Following the hung
jury verdict in Akron,
the decision was left up
to the will of the people
through Internet voting,
Seymour came out on
top, defeating Akron,
New Haven, Conn. and
Athens, Texas.
AUG. 4, 2007
A new contest, “The
Burger Press” was added
to the family fun line-up.
Seymour’s Brad Tollefson and Katie Moeller
won the women’s and
men’s Ketchup Slide titles. Dayne Monnot won
the Hardee’s Thickburger Eating Contest.
Just days after the
event, the Travel Channel show “Taste of America” visited Seymour to
film a segment on Seymour’s role in hamburger history.
Later in the year, the
history of the hamburger
travelled to Washington,
D.C. as Seymour Community High School stu-
dents Kate Lubinski and
Alex Moeller competed in
the National History Day
contest. The girls convinced the judges that
Seymour IS the Home of
the Hamburger.
AUG. 9, 2008
Burger Fest drew the
attention of a German
film production crew as
the worked on a worldwide look at America’s
favorite sandwich. Bonnie Montgomery of Milwaukee was also filming
a pilot travel show with
her puppet “Travel Dog.”
“I’ve never been interviewed by a dog before,”
Hamburger Charlie said.
Mike “The Hammer”
Fitzgerald jammed down
seven-and-a-quarter
Hardee’s Thickburgers.
Ben Braun won the
mens’ Ketchup Slide with
a 146 feet, 7 inch slide.
Amanda Helms won the
women’s title with a slide
of 84 feet, 7 inches.
AUG. 8, 2009
Alyssa Skiba set a new
women’s record in the
Ketchup Slide with a 120
feet, 11 inch slide. Zack
Skiba took the mens title
with a 171 feet, 11-inch
slide.
Jesse Haro won
the Hard-
ee’s Thickburger Eating Contest, devouring
five-and-three-quarters
burgers.
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22ND Annual
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August 5, 1989
T he FiRsT
BuRGeR FeSt
The first Burger Fest on Aug. 5,
1989 had its beginnings a year earlier
when 65 people gathered for a brainstorming session.
Vivian Treml pointed out the fact
that Charlie Nagreen had fried the
first hamburger at the Seymour Fair
in 1885.
That formed the basis of Seymour’s
often proven claim that Seymour is
the Home of the Hamburger.
That meeting led to three goals:
cook a world-record size ‘hamburger,
hold an annual festival based on the
hamburger and establish a Hamburger Hall of Fame.
Once the Home of the Hamburger
set its goals, the group began the logistics of building the world’s largest
burger.
Joe Sauer had the idea of building a
covered grill so the huge burger would
cook evenly. Steve Mielke engineered
the grill, now a fixture at Nagel Park.
Seymour native, Carl Kuehne, then
owner of Green Bay Dressed Beef,
donated the 5,200 pounds of ground
beef for the feat. About 12,000 people
had a share of the world record burger.
People Magazine was on hand for
the event. Mayor Judith Schuette authenticated the burger by eating the
first portion.
The World’s Largest Hamburger
Parade boasted 212 entries. Other
events during the first Burger Fest included a costume contest, big wheel
races, the Hamburger Olympics (later
changed after a legal threat from the
World Olympics) which included the
Ketchup Slide, a bed race, and art
show.
Burger Fest 2009
photos by Rick Cohler
We are proud to be sponsors
of the 22nd Annual
BURGER FEST
Downtown Seymour
Sat., August 7
FUN FOR THEWHOLE FAMILY!
PARADE STARTS AT
11:00 AM
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Since The Burger Fest
Began in 1989
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We proudly sponsor
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Join in the fun and festivities at BURGER FEST 2010
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at the 22nd Annual
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in Seymour on
Saturday, August 7
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August 2, 2010 • Burgers Gone Wild• Seymour’s 22nd Annual Burgerfest • Advertiser Community News • Page 9
BuuiLD A BuRGeR
With this year’s Burger Fest theme of “Burgers Gone Wild,” a Hardee’s® Build a Burger Contest
will take place at 6:30 p.m. on the Rock Ledge School grounds. Pre-registered local contestants will
attempt to build the wildest burger using the Hardee’s® Thickburger® patty.
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This is the second time in Burger Fest history that area cooks have had a chance to put the
perfect burger on the plate.
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At the 2004 Burger Fest, Erika Wasielewski won the burger cook-off competition with her
Cajun Muffaletta Burger. She offers the recipe for Advertiser
Community News
readers here.
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Proud Sponsor Of The
We invite you to check out
BurgerFest in Seymour
on Friday, August 6 &
Saturday, August 7
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Mayor Schuette presided over first
Burger Fest, reprises her role in 2010
Judy Schuette was
the mayor of Seymour
in 1989 when the first
Burger Fest was conceived and celebrated.
She is mayor again in
2010.
“I thought Burger
Fest was a good idea,”
Schuette said. “It has always been a great family-centered event for
Seymour.”
Schuette said she always likes the parade.
“When you watch it, you
know so many people
in it and that is what
makes it so enjoyable.”
The addition of a balloon rally has brought
more visitors to Seymour each August, including the mayor’s
house, which she said is
full of family every Burger Fest.
Schuette said Burger
Fest has been great for
Seymour.
“I admire all the people who put so much
time and work into it every year,” Schuette said.
Burger Fest Celebration
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invites you to enjoy all the festivities at this year’s
Honoring Hamburger Charlie at the
22ND Annual
Burger Fest
Celebration
in Seymour on August 7
BURGER FEST!
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August 2, 2010 • Burgers Gone Wild• Seymour’s 22nd Annual Burgerfest • Advertiser Community News • Page 11
HoMe of t he
HaMburGeR
The State of Wisconsin
2007 Assembly Joint Resolution
Relating to: Seymour,
Seym
Wisconsin, as the home of the hamburger,
Whereas, Seymour,
Seymou Wisconsin, is the right home of the hamburger; and,
Whereas, other accounts of the origination of the hamburger
trace back only so far as the 1880s, while Seymour’s claim
can be traced to 1885; and,
Whereas, Charles Nagreen, also known as Hamburger Charlie, of Seymour, Wisconsin, began calling ground beef patties
in a bun “hamburgers” in 1885; and,
Whereas, Hamburger Charlie first sold his world-famous
hamburgers at age 15 at the first Seymour Fair in 1885, and
later at the Brown and Outagamie county fairs; and,
Whereas, Hambu
Hamburger Charlie employed as many as eight people at his famous
hamburger tent, se
selling 150 pounds of hamburgers on some days; and,
Whereas, the hamburger
ham
has since become an American classic, enjoyed by families and backyard g
grills alike; now, therefore, be it
Resolved
by
the
assembly,
the senate conIt’s Time For The
curring,
That
the members of
22ND Annual
the
Wisconsin
legislature
declare Seymour,
Wisconsin, the
Original Home of
the Hamburger.
BURGER
FEST
This statue of
Charles Nagreen
proudly stands
in Nagel Park,
Downtown
Seymour
in Seymour on
State Capitol
Madison,
Wisconsin
May 9, 2007
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Saturday, August 7
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