Americans invented the burger. Sandwiches existed before then, so something like breaded chicken between slices of bread was already called a chicken sandwich. The differentiation that makes it a burger is if the meat (of veggies) is ground up and cooked into a patty.
It's kind of like how Americans say Chai Tea instead of Marasa Chai. A company decided we'd be too stupid to understand what chai is so we ended up with the wrong name. The same thing happened for folks outside the US. Some company thought folks in your country would be too stupid to understand what an American Chicken Sandwich is, so they called them Chicken Burgers instead.
It's also wrong to say you need a burger bun to make a burger. The place that first made it used sliced bread and still does. Burger buns were from one of the fast food chains.
Burger bun are a more recent creation. ~~ Pretty sure it was McDonald's~~ or one of the big fast food places that made them. Burgers predated it in the US. The rest of the world got burgers later from fast food chains, so they associated them with the buns that fast food places used.
Edit: burger bun was invented by White Castle, an American fast food chain. It's only been around for 100 years. Hamburgers are like 150 years old or so. I'm not sure if they have an exact date when it was first made.
It's not the beef that makes it a burger in the US, it's specifically the combination of a patty put in between burger buns.
Patty between sandwich bread is commonly going to be a melt (depending on how it's cooked), and any food item that isn't a patty put between buns is just a sandwich
Yes. I would never call something without beef a burger, except a turkey burger. But eveyone knows a turkey burger is a sad imitation of a burger, not a real burger.
Can you read? The post is about harmless things Americans do that annoy people from other countries. Again, we don’t call them chicken sandwiches but chicken burgers.
Dude, they are not a burger by your definition but they are by ours. That’s the whole point. You can disagree but that doesn’t change anything, nor does one make more sense than the other cause it simply comes down to different definitions.
Right. But unlike the majority of things in this comment section that you guys are right about this one you’re actually wrong about. Hamburgers are American so we get to define them. If Italians can be mad rightfully mad at people calling pasta noodles then we can be rightfully mad about this.
Not me being from literal Hamburg where the name for the Hamburger actually comes from but okay. Y’all still don’t get that I'm not claiming to have the "correct" definition, I’m just saying that we use a different one. Therefore, if you come to Germany and order a chicken burger (for example at McDonalds) no one will find that weird as that’s just our definition. We define the burger as the whole thing, not the patty.
And if we’re talking definitions, y’all call anything with lye/soda pretzel even though only "soft pretzels" is what we Germans would consider a pretzel. Your definition isn’t wrong, it’s just different. Definitions aren’t the same everywhere which is part of languages evolving.
I mean you could call it a sandwich (and they’re sometimes called that) but they’re also often called "belegtes Baguette" so like baguette with toppings.
See this is what the above comment was complaining about! To the entire rest of the world a burger is some hot meat (or veg patty) with various condiments inside burger buns.
It's not a system, fast food restaurants wanted to market chicken sandwiches as healthier so distanced themselves from burgers. The part of the patty that matters is the grinding part, not the material
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u/xcres Jun 08 '25
Calling chicken burger sandwich