Why is a hamburger called a hamburger?!?!
The name refers to hamburg-er meat, not a ham-burger.
Answers: "The originated on the German Hamburg-Amerika line boats, which brought emigrants to America in the 1850s. There was at that time a famous Hamburg beef which was salted and sometimes slightly smoked, and therefore ideal for keeping on a long sea voyage. As it was hard, it was minced and sometimes stretched with soaked breadcrumbs and chopped onion. It was popular with the Jewish emigrants, who continued to make Hamburg steaks, as the patties were then called, with fresh meat when they settled in the U.S. The prevailing version [of the story] is that at the end of 1800' s, European emigrants reached America on the ships of the Hamburg Lines and were served meat patties quickly cooked on the grill and placed between two pieces of bread."
The name refers to hamburg-er meat, not a ham-burger.
Because the name chocolate was already taken.
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originally made in hamburg, germany
It's thought to have come from the town of Hamburg, Germany. Here is where it's thought hamburger (originally called "hamburger steak") was "invented". The word hamburger first appeared in English in the late 1800's.
I think it was because ham is to beef as burger is to bun i kind of made that up but if you need more answers go to ask.com or google and ask you question you will easily get an answer
It's named after Hamburg Germany. Place of my family's origin. I think the name refers to the type of meat that is used.