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[–] 97 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Less. A hamburger is a descendent of the Hamburg steak which is a ground beef patty. It's got nothing to do with ham.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    That may be the origin but the term has its own meaning and usage today. You can have a veggie-burger or a turkey-burger or salmon-burger. Why not the same construction with ham? A Ham-burger?

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  • [–] -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Why do we use euphemism after the animal is killed? Just call it what it is, a pig-burger.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    It's not a euphism, it developed in the English language because the aristocracy, which could actually afford meat and ate it regularly, spoke french, therfore using french terms for the meat e.g. Porcine -> pork or Bœuf -> beef ) wheras the farmers who actually raised and dealt with the animals, but rarely if ever could actually afford to eat them, used anglo saxon to refer to them, hence this dichotomy in names for meat vs. animal in English.

    It has nothing to do with being a euphism. It's also evident that the cheapest meat, and pretty much the only one that even peasants could somewhat regularly afford, chicken, did not undergo this split.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Then you just have a ham sandwich.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

    Probably less. The 'ham' in hamburger doesn't refer to the type of meat. But rather, the 'hamburg' in hamburger refers to the indirect origin of the creation (via the Hamburg steak sandwich). Hamburg in Germany. So putting actual ham in a hamburger would a) make it not really a hamburger, and b) be pretty confusing to people.

    Edit: corrected my previous explanation based on the feedback of others.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    Less of a hamburger, more of a ham burger.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    No, that’s just a ham and cheese.

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    Steamed hams

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I think I once ate a ham hamburger in a berg near Hamburg.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Well, there's no sand in a sandwich, Manwich isn't a Sweeny Todd product, but a veggiewich is full of veggies. Maybe if you grind the ham and mix a bit of egg and breadcrumb, you could make a hamhambuger, which isn't more or less, just different.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    It's a Newfie-burger.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Since the name of the recipe if from the town of Hamburg, I guess it makes it a hamburger with ham

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Just be British and call them beefburgers because that is what they are? Except when visiting McDonald's then they are hamburgers..

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    [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Please don't advocate murder

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