Talk:hamburg

Use meaning "hamburger meat" or, ground beef that is to be made into a patty?

In my neck of the woods, "hamburg" is often used to refer to the meat of a hamburger, or to ground beef that is to be made into a patty that will be used in the hamburger.

Has anyone else heard of this usage? Tharthan (talk) 00:37, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Yes .... it didnt occur to me until now that it might be a localism, but you and I live very close to each other. I wonder if it can all be traced back to a single supermarket chain that just one day decided to shorten its product label by two letters ... —Soap— 13:09, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

and I just had a phone call with my mother where she said hamburg was just short for hamburger. she was born and grew up in Minnesota, so it may be that our label of Midwestern is accurate after all and that the specific meaning of ground beef is indeed an unrelated localism that may well be due to a single person. —Soap— 12:42, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

One restaurant in Massachusetts offers hamburg as a pizza topping, which by all reasonable logic must mean ground beef and not fully formed patties. —Soap— 11:50, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Looking around some more, I've found quite a lot of other restaurants around here also using this label. Not the typical use-examples we look for, but I'm sure if this gets questioned it will be easy to verify. —Soap— 03:09, 7 October 2022 (UTC)