The impracitcality of a cheeseburger.?

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I have run across a curious essay, claiming that a cheeseburger was so impractical, more than a century ago, that nobody would have though of it: lettuce is a cool-weather crop, tomatoes a summer crop, meat an autumn product. (He does not say impossible; "a time-traveller with an unlimited budget could have had one.")

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[pickledginger]

It takes a little babying, and frequent harvesting, but I have nursed spring lettuces well into summer -- usually as interplantings with my tomatoes. Certainly lettuces would be cheaper in spring or autumn, when they are less likely to bolt, but summer needn't extinguish them entirely.