Hamburger or Hamburg?

[mickeyboat]

Where I was from when you went to the store to buy raw ground beef, you asked for hamburger. My MIL always called it hamburg. What do you call it?

Denae

 

[lindakmonty]

never heard of your mil's version

 

[N.Bailey]

I call it ground beef. LOL

If I'm ordering a burger though, I use the term hamburger. Hamburg? NEVER, isn't that a city in Germany?

 

[ozarkmom]

Who says hamburg? It's either hamburger or ground beef.

 

[MosMom]

Ground Beef here as well. I believe the correct word would be hamburger though. Hamburg is a city in Germany.

 

[MrsNick]

Chopped meat, or chopped sirloin.

 

[Sparx]

hamberg is a city in germany.
hamberger is a patty made of ground beef
groundbeef is beef that is ground up.

eta-I don't eat beef.

 

[MosMom]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger

Gotta love Wikipedia

 

[Tazicket]

I call it ground beef unless it is in patty form, in which case it is hamburger.

 

[LBAK]

Chopped Meat for me.

 

[kimmikayb]

Hamburger or ground beef. I've never heard anyone call it hamburg. Sounds like your MIL is being too lazy to finish the word

 

[Grumpy's Wife]

I called it ground meat.

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

I say either ground beef or hamburger.

 

[pearlieq]

I call it ground beef unless it is in patty form, in which case it is hamburger.

Me too!

I've heard of people calling ti "hamburg" but I think it's mostly a regional/generational slang.

 

[helenabear]

Ground beef/meat/sirloin... etc is most common around here.

I wouldn't bat an eye if someone called it Hamburger Meat though. I've never heard it called hamburg though... to me that is a city in Germany!

 

[Daxx]

We usually say ground beef or hamburger meat (as opposed to hotdog meat, I suppose)! We usually buy pre-made burgers, so we usually say "Have to get some hamburgers! When we're buying for meatloaf, meatballs, or tacos, we call it ground beef.

 

[Mandabella]

Ground Beef

 

[laurajetter]

Never heard of Hamburg, except the city. Now that I am thinking about it, why is it called HAMburger anyway if it comes from a cow?!

 

[CarolG]

Ground beef.

 

[maryssasmom]

if I am buying actual burgers, then it is hamburger

otherwise it is ground beef