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http://www.wimpys.co.uk/Remember, Dudley Moore's character, Stanley Moon, worked in a Wimpy's in Bedazzled.
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"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today"... 
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"And I'll have pickles, lettuce and onions, both on that."
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Which, again, brings us to the question: Why is it a hamburger if it's made of beef? (originally made of pork, I'm guessin')
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It's the nominalized adjectival form of Hamburg. An americanized frikadelle or Swedish meatball or risolle.
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> An americanized frikadelle
mmmm, I can see that could have "presented a coupla marketing issues, JB!"
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"...I'm strong to the finish,
'cause I eats me spinach..."
When I was a wee lad, my mother used to encourage me to eat my spinach -- which usually came out of a can, horribly wilted, slippery and doused with some awful vinegar -- so that I would grow up to be big and strong like Popeye. It took many years to overcome the revulsion produced by this childhood experience. I can now eat the stuff raw or very lightly cooked, but still not the vomit-inducing stuff which comes in the tin.
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I attually® *liked the stuff as a kid. We got the fresh stuff, with sand in it. The sand was part of the joy of it, or so I claimed. My mother always said it was because I had to be different.
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There is/was a hamburger chain in the old country called Wimpy's. Cross-ponders, does it still exist?
Yes. But they are not as ubiquitous as they were. In fact I had to look them up to be sure they *did still exist.
http://www.british-franchise.org/wimpy-restaurants/#history
In hunting that up I came across this ‘fact’.
“Producing a single hamburger patty uses enough fossil fuel to drive a small car 20 miles and enough water for 12 showers!”
Could just be axe-grinding statistical presentation on someone’s part I guess. You know – lies, damned lies and statistics.
Why is something supposedly made of beef called a hamburger, by the way?
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beef called a hamburgercheck out jheem's reply five posts up.
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