Someone looked at a perfectly good burger and thought yeah but what if we melted cheese on it.
Fun fact: The U.S. trademark for the word "cheeseburger" was granted to a Denver restaurant in 1935.
The Chinese have been making spring pancakes since forever, so technically brunch didn't invent them.
Fun fact: Analysis of 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggests early humans made a pancake-like flatbread from cattail starch.