What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.
Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?
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It's not a chicken burger or a veggie burger, etc. It's a chicken hamburger or a vegetable hamburger.
Show me the city Chickenburg on a map and I will call it a chicken burger.
I'll bet you're not a chocoholic either; you don't fly a quadcopter; you've never entered a hackathon or danceathon; never complained about stagflation, tipflation, greedflation, or bridezillas; and you don't own a Goldendoodle.
(These, and "chicken burger", are all examples of linguistic rebracketing.)
The word burger has been separated from its origins in Hamburg. In modern use, a hamburger is a beef patty, and a burger is any meat patty. Deal wit it
The real question is...what should we call a burger made from ground ham?
While traveling in Spain many years ago...and completely desperate for a good old fashioned American cheeseburger, I spotted a street vendor selling 'hamburgers'...and in my haste and desperation, ordered two. You cannot possibly know the misery that came over me as I realized half-way into my first bite that it was ground ham.
A ham hamburger.
What about a cheeseburger? Or just a burger?
Why does a hamburger with cheese become a cheeseburger? When I put pickles on a hamburger it doesn't become a pickle burger. None of this makes sense.
What is just a burger?
Why does a hamburger with cheese become a cheeseburger?
It's a portmanteau. My guess is this portmanteau came first, and then “hamburger” was shortened to “burger”.
No idea if my guess is correct or not, though.