On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 09:37:00 -0000, "Chris" wrote:

Hamburgers made of beef?

Hamburgers made in Hamburg, of gehactis, if I spell it correctly.

At the Frankfurt Press Club, the sovereign remedy for a hamburger was
gehactis mit ei (again, if I spell it correctly): a raw egg broken
upon a generous patty of raw hamburger.

Presumably an American sailor was served that remedy in Hamburg, and
imported the notion to the United States.

"What the hell do you call that?" he was challenged.

"Uh, uh, a hamburger?"