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Re:Impossible Pork by fwn on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:19AM (#21978334)
> Some of us are so used to "hamburger" that it's hard to imagine the patty being anything else.

Only of tangential relevance, but maybe still interesting: there's no ham in a traditional hamburger.

The name seems to be derived from the German city of Hamburg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_hamburger

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Re:Impossible Pork by gwbas1c on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:26AM (#21980149)
Good observation.

I've heard plenty of anecdotes of recent immigrants / tourists to the US ordering a "hamburger" expecting it to be ham. It's a rather awkward surprise for Indians who will eat pork, but not beef.

(The downvotes are unfair, IMO.)

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