In the 1200 Mongolian soldiers learned to soften meat by placing it under the saddle of their horses while riding. then they ate the meat-without cooking it. it was the first kind of "meat patty." Hundreds of years later, people in the town of hamburg, Germany, Developed " Hamburg steak"-a dish of salty meat on round bread. they wrought this traditional German food with them when they came to live in America in the 1900