What is 'hamburger'?

hamburger meat in North America is ground beef. The terms are interchangeable. As for the content: beef: 63% fat: 29% rodent by-products: 6% mad-cow: 2%

whatever the terms means, i love to have both, and i think most people would love to have it.

i think people also mean the ground meat BEFORE it is patties

hamburger is a sandwich (in the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa and Saudi Arabia, the patty alone is known as a beefburger or burger) that consists of a patty of ground meat that is usually beef. The meat can be grilled, fried, steamed, or broiled, and is generally served with various condiments and toppings inside a bun baked specially for this purpose. Burgers are often served with french fries, potato chips, or onion rings. Hamburger can also refer to the meat itself. This type of meat can be used in boxed dinners such as "Hamburger Helper". Hamburger is actually a distinct product from ground round and other types of ground meat. However, ground beef of any form is often commonly referred to as "hamburger." A recipe calling for 'hamburger' (the non-countable noun) would require ground beef or beef substitute- not a whole sandwich.

In the States a hamburger can come in different varities. Already seasoned, stuffed with cheese. From my knowledge a US hamburger is ground beef USDA approved. But some burgers come in chicken, turkey, veggie, soy, so a burger depends on the person and what they like. A burger to me is a double cheeseburger from Mickey D's. Thats all the beef I need. What's a burger to you?

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In the US hamburger is referred to as ground beef. And , yes, we make hamburgers out of it, among other things. It does not come with anything added, except the cheap kind has tripe. (Yuck) You can buy different grades and different fat content. I always buy 98% fat free.

Hamburger meat refers to ground beef and there are different grades of fat content. It doesn't normally come already mixed with onion and spices in the USA. In Nicaragua, where I live now, it sometimes comes mixed already but I prefer to buy a piece of beef and have it ground while I wait for it. It is fresher that way and I can see what I am getting for sure. When you have it stored in your freezer it might be in one pound or bigger packages or some people have it made into patties before freezing.

Its so wierd, ham is pork so isn't hamburger minced pork meat? In the uk we talk about minced beef or beefburgers, ground meat is much finer, almost more like pate in consistency

Ground beef. We have patties here too. I don't think people use them as often. It's pure, not mixed with anything.

oh so it is ground beef??? i really thought it was a pattie. i even responded to it making a hamburger steak! hehe

how it taste???

I see what you mean. I'm sure by now you already know that what we here in the colonies call hamburger is just plain ole meat. The problem I have with a lot of it is that they always remove the fats so it's lean which to me is not healthy .... I'm not arguing about what other people prefer, I prefer ground beef that hasn't been tampered with.

Yep, as others have said it is an interchangeable term. I don't know where in the US it is more prevalent, but I do know that I personally say "hamburger" a lot to mean ground beef.

A hamburger in the USA, just means ground beef . It can be fried or grilled. It can be beef or baffalo. It can be mixed with egg, onion, spices, or just all meat. The fat content depends on the chopped meet. They have chuck with 36 % fat. They have sirlon, with only 12 % fat.

I'm in Canada and here "hamburger" either means a patty that's ready to cook, or ground beef. I don't know of anywhere here that has it premixed with anything, it's just plain old ground beef that we got used to call hamburger. I think it was originally called hamburger meat, which was then shorten to suit lazy people.

Hamburgers must have started somewhere, and perhaps you will say they started in Hamburg -- Hamburg, Germany, that is, and you would be only partly right. It is said that the Hamburgers (folks that lived in Hamburg) got the idea to tenderize beef from the Tartars several centuries back, and they would eat it either raw, the way theTartars did (Beef Tartare, get it?), or cook it with onions. An English doctor and food enthusiast adapted the dish as part of his beef-three-times-a-day food regimen. His name was Dr. J.H. Salisbury; hence Salisbury Steak. With the wave of German immigrants to the United States in the 1800's the word "Hamburg Steak" or "hamburger" began appearing on menus, but they always referred to ground beef patties served on a plate -- no bun, no pickles, no mustard, no lettuce, no mayo. To serve the "hamburger" as a sandwich, well, somebody had to think that up, or rather, cook that up. As in most things American, there is a diversity of opinion between the northeast and the southwest, with still another opinion coming from the midwest. In the northeast, they say that the burger was first grilled by Louis Lassen of New Haven, Connecticut who ground up some scraps of beef and served it as a sandwich to a customer who was in a hurry in 1900. In Athens,Texas, they say a man named Fletcher Davis fried a beef patty and put it between two slices of bread as a sandwich in the late 1880's and took it to the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. However, there is some evidence to support the theory that the hamburger got its start at the World's Columbia Exposition in 1893 in Chicago. Other midwesterners claim that Charlie Nagreen of Seymour, Wisconsin invented it in 1885, introducing it at the Outagamie County Fair. Most historians seem to agree that the popularization of the Hamburger as we know it today, was when Fletch Davis began selling the ground beef patty sandwich at the amusement area, known as The Pike at the St. Louis World's Fair Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904. Fairgoers took their taste home with them and began experimenting with the Hamburg Steak tucked between two slices of bread. No one knows who thought up the hamburger bun, but by the time the White Castle people opened their doors in 1921 most of the country knew about hamburgers. In 1929 Elzie Crisler Segar was further popularizing hamburgers by giving his cartoon creation, Popeye, a sidekick called J. Wellington Wimpy who was rarely pictured without a burger in his hand.

A hamburger is a sandwich (in the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa and Saudi Arabia, the patty alone is known as a beefburger or burger) that consists of a patty of ground meat that is usually beef. The meat can be grilled, fried, steamed, or broiled, and is generally served with various condiments and toppings inside a bun baked specially for this purpose. Burgers are often served with french fries, potato chips, or onion rings. Hamburger can also refer to the meat itself. This type of meat can be used in boxed dinners such as "Hamburger Helper". Hamburger is actually a distinct product from ground round and other types of ground meat. However, ground beef of any form is often commonly referred to as "hamburger." A recipe calling for 'hamburger' (the non-countable noun) would require ground beef or beef substitute- not a whole sandwich.

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a hamburger is ground meat, usually beef, shaped into large patties, and sautéed, broiled or grilled. Also the ground meat used loose in other dishes.