Is it just coincedance that ham is called ham, and that hamburgers were first made in HAMburg?!
Is it just coincedance that ham is called ham, and that hamburgers were first made in HAMburg?
hamburgers were named after Hamburg (some place in Germany, where hamburgers were first made, or whatever).. so they were named hamburgers.....
Is it just coincedance that ham is called ham, and that hamburgers were first made in HAMburg?
Answers:
I'm not sure what the coincidence is supposed to be.
As it applies to food, the word 'hamburger' appears to have originated in the US as a derivative of 'Hamburg steak' a minced beef patty that originated in the German city of Hamburg. The application then to the sandwich made with a bun and a hamburg steak also appears to originate in the US in the late 19th century, and is later contracted to 'burger'.
The word 'ham' comes into English much earlier and its oldest definitions relate to it being the area behind the knee. From this more general meaning, we get words like hamstrings to refer to the tendons behind the knee. It then appears to have had a general meaning as the thigh of a slaughtered animal before being applied specifically to a cured hog thigh, and then even more specifically to a thigh cured after it has been removed from the carcase. (Gammon refers to the thigh when it is cured with the rest of the carcase.)
So ham does not have a great deal in common with hamburger, either in the sense of being a meat patty or a sandwich made from such a patty.