Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Beefburger?

Q: Why isn't a hamburger called a beefburger? There's clearly no ham in it!!

A: The "hamburger" is named for Hambourg, Germany, not the meat. Technically, it means "citizen of Hambourg", so you might ask, "why aren't there any ground-up Germans in them?"

3 comments:

Unknown said...

You should have added "cannibalism" as one of the comments

Unknown said...

I meant labels, d'oh!

Doug0 said...

Good point! Done!