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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'd argue if you put breakfast sausage on a bun it adequately fits the definition of a burger.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, that's a mcmuffin, or a breakfast sandwich.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean if you wanna get technical a burger is just ground meat between two halves of a bun. Therefore one could argue a McMuffin is also a burger

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nope.

A burger is ground beef patties between two halves of a bun. Any other meat is a sandwich. The reason is that "burger" is short for "hamburger," which is the term we use for ground beef, so by definition, a burger is beef.

Veggie burgers are in a weird place, because they should be sandwiches, but since they're intended to be a drop-in veggie substitute, we call them burgers. But they're always prefixed with a qualifier, like "veggie burger" or "bean burger."

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Wikipedia- Hamburger

A hamburger, or simply a burger, is a dish consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll.

Note that "typically" and "always" are of different meanings. I've made sliders with ground pork before, what is a slider if not a small burger?

A burger is a sandwich with a patty made of ground meat. That meat can be beef, pork, turkey, hell, even chicken if that's your sort of thing. And, like you said, veggies.

It's really pretty uncommon to call a chicken sandwich or a sausage breakfast sandwich a "burger." The term comes from the meat inside of it, hamburger, so generally speaking, other fillings will be called a "sandwich" instead of a "burger." I guess you could call those things burgers, but it would be weird.

And no, a "slider" isn't a "small burger" (it can be), it's a sandwich. A burger is also just a sandwich, so calling a specific sandwich a "burger" vs a "slider" means two different things, a "burger" is larger and generally has ground beef (but occasionally veggies or similar), and a "slider" is a small, usually round sandwich.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call a slice of sausage a patty, so I disagree

I cannot tell you why, though, and I make my own sausages and burgers by hand so like, I should know why?

Yeah, that's a breakfast sandwich. Why? Idk.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I guess that's true. It's more the distinction of the paddy being formed by hand or being sliced out of a big roll of sausage.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You happened to ask this while I was in a smaller class at my college so I was able to start a "civil discussion" over whether a Sausage McMuffin was a burger.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And sausage is a completely different thing than ground beef formed into a patty.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

There's pork burgers, sausage is just ground meat (generally pork) that's been seasoned and sometimes encased/preserved.