Since the name of the recipe if from the town of Hamburg, I guess it makes it a hamburger with ham
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Less. A hamburger is a descendent of the Hamburg steak which is a ground beef patty. It's got nothing to do with ham.
Then you just have a ham sandwich.
Probably less. The 'ham' in hamburger doesn't refer to the type of meat. But rather, the 'hamburg' in hamburger refers to the indirect origin of the creation (via the Hamburg steak sandwich). Hamburg in Germany. So putting actual ham in a hamburger would a) make it not really a hamburger, and b) be pretty confusing to people.
Edit: corrected my previous explanation based on the feedback of others.
Correct except hamburgers originated in America, only taking their name from the Hamburg steak, whose connection to the city of Hamburg is dubious at best.
Close. The creation was the Hamburg Steak, it was not originally a sandwich. A hamburger is a hamburg sandwich.
What if it's ground ham?
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I think I once ate a ham hamburger in a berg near Hamburg.
Well, there's no sand in a sandwich, Manwich isn't a Sweeny Todd product, but a veggiewich is full of veggies. Maybe if you grind the ham and mix a bit of egg and breadcrumb, you could make a hamhambuger, which isn't more or less, just different.
Just be British and call them beefburgers because that is what they are? Except when visiting McDonald's then they are hamburgers..
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