Plural of burger, informal term for hamburgers - ground meat patties typically served in buns with various toppings.
Shortened from 'hamburger,' which comes from Hamburg, Germany, not from 'ham.' The Hamburg steak was brought to America by German immigrants in the 19th century and evolved into the modern hamburger sandwich.
The word 'burgers' represents one of America's greatest culinary linguistic tricks - we dropped the 'ham' from hamburger and created a whole new category of food that has nothing to do with pork. This semantic evolution mirrors how the simple Hamburg steak became a global cultural phenomenon, spawning everything from fast food empires to gourmet gastronomy.
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