Investigate when beef patties were placed between slices of bread and you find some historians pointing not to German food stalls in New York but a county fair in Wisconsin.

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"We used to put him in one of the stalls as an Indian palmist during the annual charity fair organized by the Indian ambassador and he was big hit with the crowd, " said Sreenivasan, who worked with Karkare in Vienna for five years.

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In early November, the street fair was re-created at the edge of Nihonmatsu's center, with 70 stalls.

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