Why Calling Hamburgers 'Burgers' Is Actually Incorrect - Chowhound

To better understand how the word 'burger' came to be, we must first look to the German city of Hamburg, where in the same way people who live in New York are called New Yorkers and people from Texas are labelled Texans, the locals here were once referred to as Hamburgers (a term coined in the 1610s, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary). Advertisement However, that's not the only link this city has to…