• finitebanjo@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 months ago

      Well technically hamburgers were never actually hamburgers, it’s an abbreviation for hamburg steaks.

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        6 months ago

        It comes from hamburg steaks. Adding -er to the end of a city name in German and English (now to a lesser extent) forms an adjective meaning from that city or a noun meaning someone or something from that city. Another example is frankfurter, which comes from frankfurter Wurst.