Hamburger

                               Márcio Bueno, The curious origin of words

ground beef sandwich, seasoned, connected with

egg shaped in steak and fries on the plate.

In countries English language, who understand that hamburger, if not

Currently, at least at its origin it has a sandwich

of ham (ham, English) with burger (which should be

meat). The impression was reinforced when came

varieties like eggburger (egg with meat) and

cheeseburger (cheese with meat).

But the story is well different - burger has never had any relationship with

the Ham. It started with nomads in Eastern Europe and Asia who used to eat raw meat finely cut.

Inspired by this habit, in the early eighteenth century

German sailors of Hamburg harbor innovated,

going to cook meat. Who took to the United

US revenue of seasoned ground beef, mashed

Round and fried dumplings as a steak, were

German immigrants.

Food began to be called Hamburg steak (steak Hamburg), that name just

time was shortened to hamburger. With some frequency

It discloses that the sandwich was invented in the United

States, but the share of Americans was

just join the steak bread.