The name hamburger has nothing to do with ham, but comes from the German city of hamburg. A burger was originally called a Hamburg steak. In 1889,the word hamburger first appeared in a restaurant review in the US newspaper "Walla Walla Union".It was in a phrase that was itself a mouthful:" you are asked if you will have pork chop, beef steak ham and egg ham burger steak or liver and bacon".
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