Hamburger Meat or Ground Beef?
By Rhonda S.
@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
United States
July 5, 2022 12:28am CST
My kids laugh at me for calling a dish I prepare--hamburger meat and beans. My mother always called it that, and the title just stuck in my mind. It's two ingredients: ranch style beans and beef. I cook it all the time, because it's the easiest food in the world to assemble, and I can always add in extra ingredients to spice it up. A friend of ours calls it Cowboy Chili.
My kids also laugh at me for calling it hamburger meat instead of ground beef. I'm not sure if hamburger meat is an old-fashioned term, or if my mother (and I) are the only ones to call it that.
Do you call it hamburger meat or ground beef?
Do you know anyone who calls it hamburger meat?
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@marguicha (216097)
• Chile
5 Jul 22
The translation to my language (Spanish) is ground meat. We use ground meat for several dishes. One of them is hamburger. But many sauces are made with it and then there are the meat balls of course.
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@LadyDuck (459735)
• Switzerland
5 Jul 22
@marguicha Same as you, we use "ground beef" and we can prepare hamburgers using ground beef, but also many other things.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
5 Jul 22
Yes, we use this also for many many dishes. It's so versatile.
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@MarieCoyle (29181)
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5 Jul 22
One of my grandmothers said hamburg--no er on the end of it. She often corrected herself. One of her sisters helped to raise her and they lived in New Hampshire. I guess in New England, people used to mostly say hamburg, and she heard that a lot when she was young. I usually say ground beef, but hamburger is perfectly fine, nothing wrong with calling it what we know it is.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
5 Jul 22
That was probably appropriate because I believe hamburgers came from Hamburg, Germany.
@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
5 Jul 22
That's what DE said, but I believe most people call it ground beef in Texas.
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@LadyDuck (459735)
• Switzerland
6 Jul 22
@misunderstood_zombie I am sure we had not and I remember the first time Mom bought them and cooked, I cannot say we really liked.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
6 Jul 22
I don't think they had patties either when I was a kid.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
6 Jul 22
@LadyDuck I think they are too fatty, I would rather make my own.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
5 Jul 22
I think most Americans just call ground beef "hamburger". That's what my parents called it but, playing on myLot has taught me that people in other countries don't understand that I mean ground beef when I say "hamburger", just like we call ground pork "sausage". So many people from other countries had no clue that sausage is normally "ground pork"... I've gotten used to saying ground beef and ground pork on myLot.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
5 Jul 22
I'm not sure anyone calls it just hamburger in Texas, I will ask around though, because now I'm curious.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
5 Jul 22
@misunderstood_zombie Check across Missouri and I can promise it's hamburger here.
Check across Missouri and I can promise it's hamburger here.1 person likes this
@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
5 Jul 22
You're right there isn't any wrong or right.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
6 Jul 22
We have always called it Hamburg. When we make burgers from it they are hamburgers.
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@m_audrey6788 (58482)
• Germany
5 Jul 22
We call it here Rinderhackfleisch which means ground beef 
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@MarshaMusselman (38697)
• Midland, Michigan
6 Jul 22
I call ground beef, hamburger. If I make them into patties then I call them hamburgers.
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