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Tony Hawks:
In the USA the science of making hamburgers is part of academia, and the Hamburger University opened in Illinois in 1961.
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Alan Davies:
Oh, shut up.
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Tony:
And the founder of --
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*BUZZ*
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David Mitchell:
John.
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John Finnemore:
Maybe it did though; maybe it did. I’m saying it did.
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David:
The thing is it’s about America; only a certain number of ridiculous things can be said about America in a row before one of them is true.
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John:
Is this… Is this that one?
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David:
Is which that one?
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John:
There’s a Hamburger University.
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David:
You’re absolutely right.
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John:
Hooray.
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David:
Well done. Fred Turner, McDonald’s former senior chairman, founded Hamburger University in Illinois. Today more than five thousand students attend it, and it is an accredited school.
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Alan:
And they just make hamburgers do they?
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David:
I’m assuming they go into it in some detail.
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Tony:
How many universities just do one subject only. That’s like calling a university that does History ‘History University’.
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David:
Yes, I don’t think you can read Classics at Hamburger University. You can read the preparation of hamburgers. Possibly, I don’t know, the History of the Cow; the Sesame Seed Through the Ages…
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John:
Sociology of the Gherkin.
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David:
Exac– Actually the more you think about it, how do they cram it into three years?
