|Why Hamburger?

Originally, the term hamburger derives from Germany’s second largest city, Hamburg, from which many people immigrated to the United States. Burg means fortified settlement or refuge in High German. In German, Hamburger can be a descriptive noun referring to someone from Hamburg (i.e. London → Londoner) or an adjective describing something from Hamburg. Similarly, names like frankfurter and wiener, other meat-based foods, are used also in Germany and Austria as descriptive nouns for people and as adjectives for things from the cities of Frankfurt and Wien, a province of Vienna, respectively.