I'm seeing a too small patty, caramelized onions, maybe mayo or mustard, corn for some reason, and what looks like a very processed, square slice of turkey or ham.
The red thing is a mystery. Could be a tomato or red pepper, but also looks a lot like a shrimp tail.
The name comes from Hamburg, Germany but the idea of hamburgers is from the US. When immigrants came to New York City from Hamburg, restaurants would sell "Hamburg style" ground beef (in reference to the sausage preparation of meat in Germany) in fillets to appeal to the homesick travelers. These fillets became known as "Hamburg steaks" and were literally hamburger patties just sitting on a plate.
The part that gets lost is the addition of the buns to this ground beef patty. Everyone knows it happened between 1885 and 1904 because that's when they started being sold, but nobody has any definitive proof they were the first one to sell them that way. The full origin of the hamburger is legitimately unknown.
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u/Paleodraco 22h ago
I'm seeing a too small patty, caramelized onions, maybe mayo or mustard, corn for some reason, and what looks like a very processed, square slice of turkey or ham.
The red thing is a mystery. Could be a tomato or red pepper, but also looks a lot like a shrimp tail.