"Why are hamburgers called hamburgers when they are from cows not pigs?"?

Answer 1

Location. Hamburg, Germany is commonly associated with the hamburger. The theory is that the essence of what became the modern hamburger started there, and then was brought by immigrants to the United States where it evolved into what it is today.

Further reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger

~Kyle

Answer 2

Hamburgers were first introduced in England during the 1500s. The Indians from north america had begun to make pig burgers and introduced bacon in the 1970s. During colonial times the frecnch ate french fries from carrots, this started the creation of cocaine. Together the French came to an agreement sith the Indians to make a piece of Ham from a pig into a burger between two buns. When the Civil War broke out in 1864 the Hamburger had turned into a symbol of patriotism toward the fast food nation. King James became jealous of the nations attempt to steal the idea of a hamburger and started to take a strike against the Americains by starting the revolutionary war in the 1700s. By that time Julius Ceasar had heard of the phenomenon known as the hamburger and started experimenting with ketchup from Poland. The Polish were known for their Ketchup made from Apples, distributed by the Heinz company. So by the end of the Civil War the Romans had wiped out the US troops stationed along the French Canadien Border ans had declared an end to the war by starting the war of 1812. King James grew tired of these feeble attempts and made the Hamburger not with Ketchup made from apples but with Ketchup made from tomatoes, a very tasty contribution to the great tastiness that the French had singled out. Later after those struggles the Hamburger became a world wide giant in the food industry. The History Channel quoted in its great glory announced that the Hamburger was good and so it became how you know it today from the McDonalds and the Burger King. The Whopper in 1974 was voted the best sandwhich food of all time and it still perhaps is today but there are some skeptics. Such as the Discovery Channel who in 1993 decided that the Whopper was no greater than "rice pudding". A horrible statement determining that Rice pudding was in the same league of the Whopper which is a horrible thing to the Whoppers. The Whoppers struck back claiming that the Clintons had outstrethed the Discovery Channel long ago and thus it became the Hamburger. Two buns and a piece of beef in the middle.

Answer 3

Dear John

Why do we have to keep answering this question! As it turns out, the folks at wicked pidea can not control the incorrect answers that are placed there by well intended but often slightly misinformed. The hamburger debate is a perfect example of this.
All our histories have a few anomalies and slight errors in some details
As many of your answermaniacs have correctly pointed out, the origin is from the town of Hamburg but not Hamburg, Germany. Folks on this side of the Atlantic have been enjoying and recording the hamburger in all its yumminess for years and years before the state of Germany was created. And, contrary to the first recorded North American use others have provided you, Delmonico restaurant in New York printed a menu in 1834 listing a Hamburger steak, the preferred name for the burger in those earlier days.

The history of this gustative phenom has gone through other tough times. During the First World War, in an effort to de-Germanize all things German, officialdom tried to convince people to call it the Salisbury steak. It did not really catch on, though remnants of the name change are still around in a few localities.
The shortened name, burger, came into vogue during the 1930s and with the introduction of cheeseburger, nutburger, pork burger came the effort to rebrand the original as beefburger. Now, with the proliferation of fastfood and chain eateries there are dozens of names competing for dominance. However, the tried and true Hamburger is still with us.

Now John, I have some food questions for you.Everybody comes up with pineapple, which is neither a pine nor apple. That's an easy one. What I need to know is why is the Jerusalem artichoke not from Jerusalem nor is it an artichoke; is the Brussel sprout a sprout and does it come from Brussells; and thirdly, the Jordan almond is an almond, but does it come from Jordan? If you can answer these, John, I would be truely appreciative.

Answer 4

Because the world has eaten countless hamburgers, the origins of the name may be of interest to many. By the middle of the 19th century people in the port city of Hamburg, Germany, enjoyed a form of pounded beef called Hamburg steak. The large numbers of Germans who migrated to North America during this time probably brought the dish and its name along with them. The entrée may have appeared on an American menu as early as 1836, although the first recorded use of Hamburg steak is not found until 1884. The variant form hamburger steak, using the German adjective Hamburger meaning “from Hamburg,” first appears in a Walla Walla, Washington, newspaper in 1889. By 1902 we find the first description of a Hamburg steak close to our conception of the hamburger, namely a recipe calling for ground beef mixed with onion and pepper. By then the hamburger was on its way, to be followed—much later—by the shortened form burger, used in forming cheeseburger and the names of other variations on the basic burger, as well as on its own.

Answer 5

because it basicly made by this guy called Mcdonanld, just kidding. Hamburger are called that because it originated from Hamburg, a city in German, Hamburger is actually german. They had a dilemma between calling them burger or 'brot' which is bread in German.

Answer 6

Its because of the place of it's creation, Hamburg, Germany.

Answer 7

They were invented in Hamburg, Germany.

Answer 8

Because they were invented in Hamburg, Germany (in the same manner hot dogs used to be called Frankfurters, because they were invented in Frankfurt, Germany -- guess the Germans aren't very original when it comes to naming things).

Answer 9

As I recall, they came from the city of Hamburg in Germany, where someone
ground beef and then cooked it on a griddle (or something of the like) ..just like hotdogs are sometimes called wieners... which are from Vienna, Austria.... and "Vienna" in German is "Wien" ..(except pronounced as "v" rather than "w" ..

Answer 10

Check out the history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburgers