Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MADISON, Wis., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- State lawmakers in Texas and Wisconsin are engaged in a flame-broiled debate over the origin of the hamburger. Republican Texas Rep. Betty Brown has cooked up a resolution to officially declare Athens, Texas, as the birthplace of the popular sandwich, USA Today reported Thursday. Advertisement "It's not just our claim and what we say," she said. The history "is very well documented." However, Wisconsin Rep. Tom Nelson, a Democrat, has thrown his own resolution on the grill, declaring the town of Seymour, Wis., as the official home of the hamburger. "Seymour is the hamburger capital, period," he said. There has long been disagreement over the origins of the fast food staple. At least two other cities, Akron, Ohio, and New Haven, Conn., have laid claim to being the birthplace of the burger. Nelson claims a man by the name of "Hamburger Charlie" Nagreen unveiled the first hamburger at an 1885 county fair in Wisconsin, while Brown attributes the invention to a man named Fletcher Davis who distributed hamburgers in the 1880s in Texas.
