Every time I'm in the US I'm confused as hell why they call burger patties hamburger and the fully assembled dish as well.
And don't get me started on appetizer somehow meaning main course.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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Sometimes a patty alone served on a plate will be called a hamburg(er) steak, but they're not very common. I can't remember the last time I saw that on a menu. Which country has those? I know Japan makes the distinction with hambagu being the patty and hambaga being the sandwich, so they probably took a cue from somewhere other than the US.
And I think you're thinking of entree, not appetizer.
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As someone who is actually from upstate new york, I should inform you that the idea of us using the phrase 'steamed hams' is a common misconception. In reality, we call them the same thing that everyone else does. that being steamed clams
May I see them?
mm... no
Steamy...
We have a similar problem here in the UK with fishcakes. I don't know what I got in Sheffield but it wasn't a fishcake.
In this hemisphere, in this country, in this state, localized entirely within Utica? ...may I hear it?
Does he say utica or albany? I always mix it up.
"Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone call it steamed hams"
"No, not from Utica, it's an Albany expression"
Both! Lol thank you friend
Oh yeah, Albany would have been correct... I remembered it off the top of my head as "more of a Utica expression"
All good! I completely understand
Homer nodding blankly: I understand.
Well, I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams'.
You steam a good ham!
TIL some of y'all have way too many tiny counties.
At 9.1 million square km, and 3143 counties, that's an average of 2910 square km per county.
England has 84 counties covering a land area of 130,300 square kilometers, at 1550 square km per county.
So our counties are, on average, twice as big as the country we derived our legal/administrative systems from.
I think everything west of Nebraska skews it. Georgia is almost exactly 1000 sq km average. Ohio is 1200, Kentucky 872, Arkansas is 1836.
It's because we never had actual Counts governing subsections of our country as their own fiefdoms. Instead its an engineered system to suit our desire for decentralized, individualized and fairly inefficient government.
You should see how our education system is governed, it's even worse.
Holy moly as an armchair linguist how the heck did I never see count and county being related 🙃🙈
It’s interesting, with western expansion they become more squarish and normalized just as states become somewhat more square. Then eventually they hit the Rockies and just gave up as you had the more chaotic western land grab.
That's the origin of the word county‽🤯
Makes perfect sense, just never thought about it ig.
A lot of the county lines in the states around the Mississippi River are tributary rivers, streams etc.
And here in Georgia, some dipshits are trying to create even more! (A bunch of racists from north Fulton County want to secede and re-create Milton County because Atlanta/south Fulton has too many blacks and liberals in it.)