Why do they call a hamburger a hamburger when there is no ham in it ?!


Question:

Why do they call a hamburger a hamburger when there is no ham in it ?


Answers:
there is no dog in a hot dog either


The word comes from the seaport city - Hamburg in Germany. During the time of American settlement, a lot of European immigrants moved to the New World. At that time the port of Hamburg meant the last piece of European soil immigrants felt under their feet before their voyage to the unknown. Hamburger was a food European immigrant often used to consume on the boats of the Hamburg-America Line. Like the Italians immigrant that brought in pizzas, the German immigrant brought in hamburger. Strangely enough they did not use the names for hamburger in their mother tongue (German name ‘Frikadelle’). Maybe that was because the word hamburger reminded them nostalgic of their voyage and was an element of recalling their old homeland.

haha good question?

hmm i dunno..very good question and no dog in a hot dog

rofl

I think it's because it was invented in Hamburg, Germany....not 100% sure tho...lol

For the same reason they call a hot dog a hot dog.

Because its from Hamburg, Germany

THats simple because everything taste like ham.

Even worse than that why do they call it a drive way if the car is parked up all the time?

i stay true to the name and grind up ham then make it into a patty and cook it that way. it taste very good but my rabbi does not like me doing it.

Holy crap! You DO make a good point!


This is no ham on it. I guess that the ground beef is made out of is looked at as ham somewhere along the lines before it gets grinded up and turned into ground beef, and ultimately hamburger meat.

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Maybe its just a name.

Possibly the food originated in Hamburg, Germany, although I have no information that that is the case.




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