

Even though you can’t eat a virtual hamburger, it is still very rewarding to learn new dishes or aspects to the cooking world like managing a business. Games are a good entry point for young cooks who may want to cook meals in the future but maybe are too young to be working a hot dog stand. Since then, cooking games have grown to sometimes include actual recipes, semi realistic instructions that can be applied to real cooking, and of course simulated cooking. This game perfected the balance of fun cooking games and cemented this subgenre of games into the history books. The game depicted the American president as a hot dog vendor on the streets. Foodie Description: Cook delicious meals and desserts from all over the world in this FREE addictive time-management game With a wide choice of unique locations and restaurants, from Desserts and Fast Food to Indian and Chinese cuisines, you will be able to practice your skills in a variety of settings and cooking techniques.

Around the same time, the famous Hot Dog Bush was released as a parody to then President George W. Another old yet addicting game was only known in English as Chinese Meat game.

This trend continued, one the first sponsored games I remember was called Better BBQ Challenge. One of the first cooking games on Y8 was an old barbeque (BBQ) game made as an advertisement game to promote a brand to players. Cooking games started during the early days of browser games.
