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The original hamburger steak is a preparation of ground meat, typically beef, pork, or a mixture of the two, mixed with eggs and sometimes stale bread crumbs, traditionally served with some combination of gravy, mushrooms, or onions. This became very popular in the US, and would eventually be served on sliced bread as a hamburger sandwich, eventually evolving to typically be made of exclusively ground beef, and often being served on a bun. In the US, hamburger was thus a shorthand term for ground meat, as it originally started as either ground beef, ground pork, or both, although that connection weakened slightly as the popularity of the sandwich eclipsed that of the steak. Later, other forms of hamburger sandwiches, particularly chicken and turkey hamburger sandwiches, would become popular, and a variant with cheese on a beef patty reigned supreme, creating the shorthand "cheeseburger". With the advent of fast food, these two variants - a beef patty on a bun and a version including cheese - proliferated across the us as nearly the only recognizable "burgers", and then when it was exported to other nations, the terms were kept. Then, with the rise of breaded and fried or grilled chicken sandwiches in fast food places in the US, the US fast food chains also attempted to export these, but often ran into problems with locals being unable to pronounce the word "sandwich" and so, after asking some of the local knuckle-draggers, they found that calling them "burgers" was good enough to sell their goyslop, and so the name stuck. Now there are large swaths of human cattle that somehow have formed a connection between bread-type and the name of a sandwich, even disregarding the term sandwich entirely for this subcategory similar to how some refuse to call a sub sandwich a sandwich or a hotdog a sandwich, purely because of a marketing push by a bunch of jews, and they argue about it online with americans who are perplexed by this development.
