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[PersonFromPorlock]

747400, on 25 December 2012 - 07:47 AM, said:

Oh, it was invented in the U.S., like the Balti was invented in England, but




The Hamburger is named after Hamburg, Germany
The term hamburger originally derives from Hamburg,^[2] Germany's second largest city, from which many people emigrated to the United States. In High German, Burg means fortified settlement or fortified refuge; and is a widespread component of place names. Hamburger can be a descriptive noun in German, referring to someone from Hamburg (compare London → Londoner) or an adjective describing something from Hamburg. Similarly, frankfurter and wiener, names for other meat-based foods, are also used in Germany and Austria as descriptive nouns for people and as adjectives for things from the cities of Frankfurt and Wien (Vienna), respectively. The term "burger" is associated with many different types of sandwiches similar to a (ground beef) hamburger, using different meats, such as a buffalo burger, venison, kangaroo, turkey, elk, lamb, salmon burger or veggie burger.<sup>[3]





... sorry, Pedant mode is now off.</sup>

So now we know which people Soylent Green is!

[lightly]

FLOMBIE, on 25 December 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

Well, many believe that the Hamburger derived from this hamburgian snack:

Rundstück warm. It is also available with a flat meatball (Frikadelle).

Former inhabitants of Hamburg supposedly brought this to the States, and it finally became the Hamburger we now know.

   wow,   does that thing still have a pulse !??

[Colonel Rhuairidh]

FLOMBIE, on 25 December 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

Well, many believe that the Hamburger derived from this hamburgian snack:

Rundstück warm. It is also available with a flat meatball (Frikadelle).

Former inhabitants of Hamburg supposedly brought this to the States, and it finally became the Hamburger we now know.

There's one crucial difference with that from the hamburger: that has real meat in it.

[Simbi Laveau]

Herectic, on 24 December 2012 - 05:11 PM, said:

NPR.org? Never even heard of it. Is it like The Onion?

NPR= National Public Radio .
Completely legit . More like Reuters than the onion