The origin of Hamburguers

Hi everybody! I have been surfing on the Internet searching for some interesting information for the blog and I have discovered some curious facts about the origin of a very popular food: HAMBURGUERS.

I have read that hamburguers probably existed in the Ancient Egypt. In the earliest XX century, some archeologists discovered a sort of bun with a baked meat pie inside an Egyptian mummy´s sarcophagus.In addition, it is also known that hamburguers were part of the Tartar gastronomy. In other words, we can assume that hamburguers aren´t an up-to-date dish.

Hamburguers, as we know them nowadays, were born in Hamburg in the 1880s and they gradually became the food of poor immigrants to the USA. It was a plain and tasteful food made up with minced meat and served in a bun.

Once I have told you all these facts about the hamburguer I would like to comment on the morphological aspect of the word itself. The term `hamburguer´ is a clear example of false etimology since `-burguer´ has been interpreted as a kind of suffix which attaches to the erroneous base `ham´. This morphological missanalysis sometimes made people think why hamburguers did not taste of ham.