Burger, what does it mean?

Question

Does the word BURGER mean meat, or does it mean the shape of the food substance.

Answer 1

It comes from an old Germanic word meaning 'to crush' or 'break up'. Thus a beefburger is 'beef crushed up or minced' - the same would a apply any meat or vegetable.
It has nothing directly related to the shape of the food which has come about out of cooking convenience - the shape is the quickest way of allowing all-through cooking.
Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Burger is slang for a beef meat patty between two slices of bread that was invented in Hamburg Germany Hence the Hamburger, Then the burger.

And if you think I believe that a vegetable patty is a burger, I 'd call you a name. But its not A burger, its a veg patty period.

Answer 3

A "Burger" is in fact a "Hamburger" - a meat patty in a style that was first popularised in Hamburg, NY. This consisted of minced (ground) beef mixed with various flavourings, formed into a meatball, flattened and cooked.

The "Ham" tends to be dropped as it can be confusing - a Hamburger contains no ham, just beef. From this, we get variations on the name such as beefburger (really a Hamburger!) cheeseburger (Hamburger with cheese), veggieburger (vegetarian patty).

To answer the question, then, I would say "Burger" means the shape - a flat patty. "Hamburger" is technically the correct name for one made of beef.

Answer 4

Hamburgers were a type of meat pattie which originated from Hamburg, just as frankfurters come from Frankfurt. They were still called hamburgers when they were newly introduced into the UK market (when I was still young), but it sounded a bit odd in English to call something HAMburger when it was made with beef, so it evolved into beefburger. Then they started getting put into bread buns, and when other things got similarly put into bread buns, by analogy you got veggieburger, cheeseburger etc. That's how languages gradually change. I don't know when the "burger" bit started getting widely used by itself. Maybe with the opening of the "Burger Bar" chain?
So in fact maybe nowadays "burger" has come to mean a filled bread bun, for most people - and that's what counts when you are defining meanings of words.

Answer 5

Burger is just the shortened version of Hamburger. which is a sandwich made with a patty of ground meat usually in a roll or bun.

It was actually called a "hamburger" steak, Hamburger meaning "from Hamburg" and was a pounded steak. Over time people starting making them with ground beef in place of the pounded steak.

Answer 6

Definitions of BURGER on the Web:

* A white-wine grape grown in the central coast of California, a clone of the obscure French Monbadon. Used for blending.
www.chowbaby.com/10_2000/glossary/glossary.asp

* United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995)
* hamburger: a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* A burger or "burger sandwich" is a type of sandwich which consists of a hamburger bun or similar type of round bread, and a primary filling of a meat or vegetarian patty. The word "burger" is an abbreviation of the word "hamburger".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger

Answer 7

A burger is citizen of a town in Germanic-speaking countries.

If you're thinking of hamburgers then you refer to the Anglicized form of Bifteck Hambourgeois, meaning beef steak in the method of Hamburg citizens. They are balls of minced beef steak blended with egg, breadcrumb and chopped onion, pressed onto a searing hot griddle. The pressing gives them the distinctive shape you refer to.

Bifteck Hambourgeois is practically as close to commercially produced hamburgers as it is to sh1t. Most home-made hamburgers don't even come close, and that's because the vast majority of people have no idea where or how they originated and what they should be like.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

All I know is that it derives from Hamburger, first used in 1930's America.

Burger does not mean meat as it can be used with the word vege as in vegeburger! Abbreviation from Hamburger...

Answer 10

veggie burgers don't have any meat.. so the word burger is probably in reference to the shape

& a spicy black bean burger = GOOD EATS!!!