[Sca-cooks] meat "substitutes"- Rant

[Terry Decker]

A hamburger is 1) ground meat, usually beef, 2) a patty made of such meat,
and 3) a sandwich made of such a patty, usually on a roll or bun.  Burger by
itself or used in combination with a condiment or addition refers to a
ground beef patty sandwich.  When used in combination with some other meat
or meat substitute, it commonly refers to a sandwich with a non-beef
filling.  Ain't English fun!

Presumably the name derives from Hamburg, Germany, and a pounded beefsteak
popular there in the 19th Century.  The term "Hamburger," essential means a
"resident or denizen of Hamburg."  According to legend, Hamburg steak first
appears in the United States in 1836 on the menu of Delmonico's Restaurant
in New York City, but the first provable references date from between 1884
to 1902.

Bear


>> Why call it a burger bun and not call it just a
>> "roll" or "patty roll" ?
>> Does a burger have to be meat based?
>
>Well, that USED to be a generally understood/implied
>term- hamburgers became venison or buffalo burgers,
>despite the fact that hamburgers never had ham in
>them, and cheese burgers merely described the addition
>of cheese, rather than the substitution of cheese for
>meat.
>
>Phlip