From cheap and cheerful to expensive and gourmet, it seems that we can't get enough burgers of all shapes and sizes - we've even had a special day to celebrate the fast food favourite since 2013.
Britain's love affair with the burger can probably be traced back to when US giant McDonald's opened its first restaurant in London in 1974, but experts reckon that burgers may have been invented by the Romans in the 4th century, as a recipe from the ancient Roman cookbook, Apicius, details a dish called 'Isicia Omentata' made of minced meat formed into a burger.
According to a Channel 5 documentary, the British fast food industry is worth £15bn pounds annually and in a year, the UK consumes an incredible 2.5 billion beef burgers. That's roughly 37 burgers per person per year. A study of 2,000 adults also found 83 percent of those who eat meat and fish couldn't 'live' without them, although these figures pale in comparison with the United States, where the average American consumes 154 burgers annually or around three every week.
