Uncle Sam created

Everyone around the world knows this expression when we talk about the USA, right? Today - September 7, 1813 the United States got officially nicknamed as Uncle Sam :-).

But why? The name is linked to Samuel Wilson who used to be a meat packer from New York. He supplied barrels of beef to the US Armed Forces during the War of 1812. To ship them he stamped the barrels with “U.S.” for United States. The soldiers used to refer to the grub as “Uncle Sam’s." - a local newspaper picked up the story, name was born, spread and is still in all our minds. Great storytelling still valid today from 1813!