Finally answer to why there is no ham in hamburgers

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Here is the non too appetizing reason: During a trip to Asia in the early 1800s, a German merchant - it is said - noticed that the nomadic Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found its way back to the merchant's home town of Hamburg where cooks broiled the meat and referred to it as it as Hamburg meat. After reading this I shall always have a mental picture of the meat being bashed near a horses butt.