why do

[Tidy Tart]

say hamburger when their burgers are meant to be 100% beef???????????

 

me and mod were talkin bout this b4

[BenRW]

i think its unreasurring that they're having to guarantee on adverts that they are now 100% beef, what were they before?

Edited February 22, 2004 by benrostwood

[Tidy Tart]

23% beef

37% shite

10% man juice

30% cat

[Louise]

QUOTE (tidytart @ Feb 22 2004, 03:49)

say hamburger when their burgers are meant to be 100% beef??????????? me and mod were talkin bout this b4

Hamburger, Beefburger, Cheeseburger, etc.

These words have exactly the same meaning in the USA and Canada as in the UK, but are perhaps worth explaining here.

A beefburger is beef alone (no bun, no salad, no sauce).

 

A burger or hamburger is beef in a bun, usually although not necessarily together with some form of salad and some kind of sauce.

 

Despite the name, a hamburger does contain beef, not ham. According to the definition of "Hamburg" in my edition of the Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary the name came from the city of Hamburg in Germany.

 

A cheeseburger is a hamburger with not only meat, salad and sauce but also a layer of cheese.

 

There is one additional term used in the USA and Canada: you often see "hamburger meat" on sale in supermarkets. Tim Showalter kindly sent me this explanation of the term:

 

Hamburger meat for sale in supermarkets is ground beef, occasionally called ground round or ground chuck. I never figured out what the difference between ground round and ground chuck was; I think it happened to be which supermarket I was in at the time. Hamburger meat should be lower quality than steak meat.

 

[EmmaBlu]

er, yeh

[Louise]

they asked a question......google answered it

[BenRW]

QUOTE (tidytart @ Feb 22 2004, 03:53)

23% beef 37% shite 10% man juice 30% cat

thats why i get the vege burger

[Lisa]

QUOTE (benrostwood @ Feb 22 2004, 13:01)

QUOTE (tidytart @ Feb 22 2004, 03:53) 23% beef 37% shite 10% man juice 30% cat thats why i get the vege burger yeh, but what the feck is in that one eh?????????????

[BenRW]

vegetables covereed in breadcrumbs or sum other coating

 

u can actually tell what everything is as its not munched up but actual lumps of vegetable

[Lisa]

QUOTE (benrostwood @ Feb 22 2004, 13:05)

vegetables covereed in breadcrumbs or sum other coating u can actually tell what everything is as its not munched up but actual lumps of vegetable

yeh but like the beef!! is it really, dont be so niave(sp)!!

[BenRW]

lumps of vegetables are difficult to replicate in some other non vegetable form

[Lisa]

try minced, moulded puke sweety!!

[BenRW]

doesn't taste acidic enough

[Dave M]

[Lisa]

yes but the flour that is used to bind the puke, takes the acidy taste away my dear!!