The hamburger was all pork

[Homer]

I've seen menus in Thailand offering hamburgers in your choice of beef or port, and menus that only had pork hamburgers. Today was the first time I was given a pork hamburger that wasn't identified as such on the menu. Didn't discover it until after the first bite. Of course I complained immediately. The lady in charge told me that their hamburgers are pork. Yeah, right. Only other time I ordered a hamburger there it was beef.

Place is owned by a Farang. Is it possible he doesn't know there are people who have deep commitment to never eating pork? I do eat pork, so that's not the issue. The deception is the issue.

How common is this hidden substitution of pork for beef? Is it just another way to scam tourists that I haven't heard about?

[pharvey]

Why would a HAMburger have to contain beef.... surely he's correct? Ham is pork after all.

If he was selling you a BEEFburger - then fair enough, you have a complaint.

....... Oh come on, Wales lost - I'm extracting the urine!!

[MLS]

Sorry to hijack this important pork thread but I feel it is appropriate to mention that France is the latest country to be in serious financial difficulties, due to the massive payout put aside for the referee

[Lung Per]

Thai beef is a non-edible substance. Thai beef is only good for making shoes and shoe soles. Consequently, pork is used as a substitute.

[littlebird]

Doh ... ham is meat from a pig hence HAMburger
Beef is meat from a cow, hence BEEFburger

Perhaps the OP would be happier if they were labelled PIGburgers and Cowburgers
I wonder what the OP would expect to find in a steak pie.

[Dannie Boy]

Doh ... ham is meat from a pig hence HAMburger
Beef is meat from a cow, hence BEEFburger

Perhaps the OP would be happier if they were labelled PIGburgers and Cowburgers
I wonder what the OP would expect to find in a steak pie.

I got this from our friends at Wikipedia

Etymology

The Hamburger is named after Hamburg, Germany
The term hamburger originally derives from Hamburg, Germany's second largest city, from where many people emigrated to America. In High German, Burg means fortified settlement or fortified refuge; and is a widespread component of place names. Hamburger can be a descriptive noun in German, referring to someone from Hamburg (compare London -> Londoner) or an adjective describing something from Hamburg. Similarly, frankfurter and wiener, names for other meat-based foods, are also used in German as descriptive nouns for people and as adjectives for things from the cities of Frankfurt and Wien (Vienna), respectively. The term "burger" is associated with many different types of sandwiches similar to a hamburger, using different meats, such as a buffalo burger, turkey burger, elk burger, salmon burger, or even a veggie burger.

[splitlid]

^im pretty sure it has nothing to do with Ham, but hey.

[splitlid]

sorry DB was meant for littlebird

[dtaai-maai]

Sorry to hijack this important pork thread but I feel it is appropriate to mention that France is the latest country to be in serious financial difficulties, due to the massive payout put aside for the referee

What a shame if this brilliant post got lost in a 'what is a hamburger' argument!
Post of the year so far.
Odds on that being seconded by pharvey?

[Arcadian]

So what do frankfurters consist of?

[dtaai-maai]

Horrible boiled things from Frankfurt, nicht war? The sort of thing you get in a Thai restaurant when you ask for a sausage. Bit like heisse hunde... or etwas wie so...

[Korkenzieher]

They are just the wurst...

[dtaai-maai]

Korkenzieher, if you're quick there may still be time to edit that post...

[Lung Per]

They are just the wurst...

Bratwurst that is??

[Korkenzieher]

@dtaai-maai

That whooshing sound was a joke flying narrowly above your head.