Why do we call a hamburger a"ham" burger, when clearly there is no pork in the meat? Why don't we call them

Question

"beef" burgers, we have turkey burgers, so whats in a name?

Answer 1

They came from Hamburg, Germany. The term 'salisbury steak' came during WWII because americans boycotted all things German.

Answer 2

Because it came from Hamburg Germany just like frankfurters came from Frankfurt Germany

Hamburger started with the Tatars (or Tartars), a nomadic people who invaded central Asia and eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The Tatars ate their shredded beef raw (hence the name "steak tartare" these days). According to one account, they tenderized their beef by putting it between the saddle and the horse as they rode. When the Tatars introduced the food to Germany, the beef was mixed with local spices and fried or broiled and became known as Hamburg steak. German emigrants to the United States brought Hamburg steak with them. It showed up on New York restaurant menus in the 1880s. Hamburgers became a sensation as sandwiches at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

White Castle, founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kan., is the world's oldest chain of hamburger restaurants. The hamburger's popularity exploded in the United States after World War II when burgers became the main menu item at drive-in restaurants spawned by the growing number of cars. McDonald's, which started as a hamburger stand in San Bernardino, Calif., has spread the hamburger around the world. The world's largest restaurant chain with more than 26,000 restaurants in 119 countries has served

Answer 3

Why is a hamburger called a hamburger although it contains no ham?

During a trip to Asia in the early 1800s, a German merchant - it is said - noticed that the nomadic Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found its way back to the merchant's home town of Hamburg where cooks broiled the meat and referred to it as it as Hamburg meat.

German immigrants introduced the recipe to the US. The term "hamburger" is believed to have appeared in 1834 on the menu from Delmonico's restaurant in New York but there is no surviving recipe for the meal. The first mention in print of "Hamburg steak" was made in 1884 in the Boston Evening Journal.


The honour of producing the first proper hamburger goes to Charlie Nagreen of Seymour, WI. In 1885 Nagreen introduced the American hamburger at the Outgamie County Fair in Seymour. (Seymour is recognised as the hamburger capital of the world.)

However, there is another claim to that throne. There is an account of Frank and Charles Menches who, also in 1885, went to the Hamburg, New York county fair to prepare their famous pork sausage sandwiches. But since the local meat market was out of pork sausage, they used ground beef instead. Alas, another hamburger.

The first account of serving ground meat patties on buns - taking on the look of the hamburger as we know it today - took place in 1904 at the St. Louis World Fair. But it was many years later, in 1921, that an enterprising cook from Wichita, Kansas, Walt Anderson, introduced the concept of the hamburger restaurant. He convinced financier Billy Ingram to invest $700 to create The White Castle hamburger chain. It was an instant success. The rest of the history, we might say, belongs to McDonald's.

And, no, a hamburger does not have any ham in it. Well, it's not supposed to. Hamburger meat usually is made of 70-80% beef, and fat and spices.

Answer 4

It's Named after the town of Hamburg in Germany.

Many Germans came to the US in the early part of the century, bringing with them a meat patty from ground beef ( also called a Salisbury Steak, from Salisbury in England). When american restauranteurs put it together with a bun the name stuck...

HTH

Answer 5

The name hamburger actually comes from the town in Germany where this kind of food originates. They were originally called hamburg steaks which then became hamburgers.

Answer 6

The name came from the town of Hamburg, Germany. Hot dogs or frankfurters also came from Germany--named for the town of Frankfurt

Answer 7

The Hamburger sandwhich was "invented" in Hamburg Germany, hence the name.

Answer 8

read up on the history of hamburgers, you may wanna cross-reference the city Hamburg, Germany

Answer 9

I am thinking that it has to do with the type of cut in that it came originally from the thigh of beef (choice cut) and since that time as we now know it, it comes from multiple parts of a cow.

Answer 10

the name comes from Hamburg, Germany not the sandwich itself