The Burger in Britain: A Symbol of Americana

本文将关注美国汉堡的历史，以评估二战以来美国和英国之间的跨文化关系，包括这道菜对英国人的健康、身份和文化的影响。它将利用报纸、广告、烹饪书、公司记录和对英美食客的实地考察来调查汉堡在多大程度上融入了英国文化。食物是国家建设的有力工具，它代表了一个统一的国家历史、抱负和社区（Vester, 2015）。汉堡在大众媒体上的呈现传达了这些理想，通过在跨学科框架内对它们进行历史研究，可以对个人如何与文化互动进行批判性分析，无论是外国文化还是本国文化。通过这一过程，本文试图探索快餐连锁店的力量，以及美国文化在现代英国社会75年的扩张。

This thesis will focus on the history of the American burger to evaluate the intercultural relationship between the US and the UK since the Second World War, including the impacts this dish has had on the health, identity, and culture of Britain. It will use newspapers, advertisements, cookbooks, company records and site visits to British-American diners to investigate the extent to which the burger has been integrated into British culture. Food is a powerful tool in nation-building, and it is representative of a unified national history, ambition, and community (Vester, 2015). The presentation of the burger in popular media communicates these ideals and by studying them historically within an interdisciplinary framework, a critical analysis can be made on how individuals interact with culture, be it foreign or their own. Through this process the proposed thesis seeks to explore the power of corporate fast-food chains and the expansion of Americana into modern British society over a seventy-five year period.