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Friday, August 22, 2003
STREET PHILOSOPHY #1
I don't think we're giving fast food the right names. Actually, really, my only beef is with chicken burgers (heh, beef with chicken, how funny . . .).
Explanation: origin of the word.
Hamburgers, as we all know, are not made of ham. Instead, they are named after the town of Hamburg, Germany, where the locals shredded their meat before cooking it for ease of chewing and digestion (in other words, they made ground beef). Therefore, by technical definition, a burger should be defined as a foodstuff involving ground meat or whatever, right?
Okay, take a standard chicken burger patty. Now, I have no problem with the ground and breaded deals that most places serve. It's when it's essentially chicken filets that are being put between the bread. "Burger", I feel, should not be defined as "circlular bun-meat-circular bun" as most people take it.
Now obviously this line of thought was lost the moment people started putting cheese on their patties as well and then the whole naming convention just went down the crapper . . . . . so, my crusade to rename grilled chicken burgers to something else probably won't fly . . .
Incidentally, "Crapper" actually originally referred to the name of the guy who invented the flush-toilet, and not the substance that goes into it. Yes, the internet is a wonderful place to learn useless things . . . . .
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