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Ah, yes. The hamburger with no ham. The hotdog bereft of canine meat. Catsup with no kitty (OK, that one is a stretch!)
by edent 4y ago
Ah, yes. The hamburger with no ham. The hotdog bereft of canine meat. Catsup with no kitty (OK, that one is a stretch!)
- scythe 4y agoThe Hamburger is a sandwich derived from a method of meat processing historically popular in Hamburg, Germany. The "hot dog" however may have in fact been some morbid humor about the processing of sausages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog#Etymology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog#Etymology
- OJFord 4y agoIn the UK we usually say beef burger, chicken burger; maybe McDonalds has 'hamburger' on the menu, I don't know. In France it's steak haché, unless more in the American style when it's l'hamburger (pronounced l'omburger), borrowing that term. Although 'hotdog' is familiar, in my experience, at a UK barbecue you'll likely be offered 'sausages and burgers' not 'hotdogs and hamburgers'. Not to say you can't or wouldn't put a sausage in one of those finger rolls, or a stick of baguette, just that probably nobody would say 'hotdog' during the process. 'Catsup', I had to look up, was a widely used term in America for a while, now usurped by (the familiar) 'ketchup'. In brief, your examples are not contradicting, since they don't really fall in my sphere of experience or usage. Perhaps though, there's an idea here that you in the US are more comfortable or accustomed to it; so it's natural on packaged products' marketing material, which is then used selling these things worldwide. Maybe.