Poll: What do you call...

[Susan in IL]

Hamburger and I grew up in Chicago.

[Philothea]

In Ohio, it was ground beef or ground chuck depending on quality.

 

Here in the Boston arear (he he) they say hamburg. They also call the sandwich a hamburg too.

 

Can I just say that this annoys me so much? I have trained my husband to say it with less frequently though :)

[Leah]

Ground beef, unless I get fancy and buy ground sirloin. :) I've always lived in CA.

[Harriet Vane]

I'm in Illinois.

[LaMere Academy]

I called it hamburger and I grew up in Texas

[Donna T.]

We're from the Redneck Riviera (I mean, the southern coast of Alabama) and we call it hamburger meat down around these parts.

[Elisabeth in IL]

Ground Beef - Illinois

[ELaurie]

ditto.

Ground beef here too.

Also in IL.

[OnTheBrink]

ground beef, I'm in Illinois

 

Same here, but I called it that when I lived in CA, too.

[LizzyBee]

Growing up on a beef farm in rural western Maryland, we just called it hamburger.

 

Since then, I've lived in Baltimore, Florida, Okinawa, and North Carolina. I usually call it ground beef now, but I've also heard "hamburger meat" quite a bit.

[Barb_]

Hamburger meat.

 

Me too...hamburger meat. But my mom also grew up without indoor plumbing. Maybe we're related.

 

Barb

[Guest LAGtime]

but what we ate was usually ground venison. I grew up in Mississippi.

[Ohio12]

ground beef....Wichita, Kansas

[nukeswife]

I grew up in the Milwaukee WI area and it hamburger there, no matter what the cut. My dh is from IA and he also calls it hamburger. Although we don't agree on the Soda or Pop thing. To me it's soda, to him Pop. Don't even get me started on the Drinking Fountain or Bubbler thing as I know that's something only found where I'm from. The first time I told Dh I was going to get a drink from the Bubbler, he looked at me like I had grown a second head :001_huh:

[Emily in FL]

I grew up in North FL (aka LA-Lower Alabama).:D

[Jenny in Atl]

Ground Beef, Ground Round, Chuck, etc. My dad loved to grill. :D Oh started my life's journey in NYC and move to ATL. So I'm an apple peach cobbler kinda gal. :001_huh:

[Unicorn.]

Hamburger meat. Occasionally ground meat, but usually just hamburger. I grew up in TX. My good friend, who is originally from Long Island, says chopped meat.

[Guest Virginia Dawn]

What do you call a cow with 2 legs?

 

 

lean beef

[C_l_e_0..Q_c]

boeuf haché :tongue_smilie:

[Elm in NJ]

mince meat. I grew up in Freetown. When I went to London, I started calling it mince beef.

 

Elmeryl

[Soph the vet]

I call it ground beef or hamburger meat. I grew up in Connecticut but have been in Minnesota for 18 years. I don't know which I said first:confused:.

 

If a cow laughs does milk come up its nose?:D

[Jackie in AR]

Hamburger meat.

 

Yep, hamburger meat. Native Arkansan.

[momofkhm]

It's ground beef.

 

I live in NC, raised in VA. Both parents were raised in MI.

[profmom]

Interesting!

 

My mom called it "hamburger meat", but I changed to "ground beef" at some point because it seemed more correct. She grew up in the "boot hill" of MO, and I grew up in the southwest corner of MO.

[PrairieAir]

Hamburger and occasionally ground beef - born in Texas, mother from Texas, father from NJ, grew up all over (TX, NJ, NY, NM, MS, IN, OH). Here in Kansas they say "hambooger". That's just nasty!:ack2:

[tuckabella]

Ground beef or hamburger meat. Grew up in New England.

:iagree: I grew up in Rhode Island.

 

I mostly buy ground turkey now and still call it ground beef or hamburger meat.

[Kris]

Hamburger -- from Idaho and California. Here in Missouri, my neighbors call it "venison." ;-)

[SallyMac]

Ground Beef, unless we are watching our fat intake and then I get ground sirloin or ground turkey for my family. But I don't touch the stuff as I am a vegetarian. Grew up in RI, but lived in California, Mass. & NY.

[Sharon in SC]

Ground beef (born and raised in the Southeast)

[Diane]

I'm from NJ and FL and call it ground beef.

 

My friend is from Canada and CT and she calls it Hamburg.

[*anj*]

I call it ground beef, and I grew up in NJ and CT.

[Amy in Orlando]

Ground beef here. Grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and NJ.

 

Dh used to say hamburg until I cured him. His whole family says hamburg too. It makes me absolutely, irrationally insane. :tongue_smilie:

[*anj*]

We called it hamburger in upstate NY. My mil from Long Island always called it chopmeat.

Okay, you're on page 4 and I've been waiting since the first page for someone to say "chopmeat!" :001_smile:

[JenniferVA]

I call it chop meat. I grew up in VA, but my parents are from Long Island, NY. My mom always referred to it as chop meat. My dh has been in VA all his life and his family called it hamburger.

 

Jen

mom to 4boys

[JFSinIL]

Even if it is for tacos or meatloaf instead of burgers...it is hamburger.

 

Grew up in S. California (of Kansas-reared parents).

[Karen in CO]

I use ground buffalo for making burgers and just call it buffalo or ground buffalo.

 

But I grew up calling it hamburger meat - I'm from North FL / South AL.

[Wendi]

I grew up in FL. My mom (from MA) would call it hamburger. And my MIL (from NJ) would call it chopmeat.

 

Wendi

[Jolash]

here in So. AL we call it hamburger, but I always mean ground chuck!

[kat19]

hamburger.. Always have, always will(probably). I live in the midwest :001_smile:

[Mamagistra]

Growing up: hamburger meat.

Now: ground beef

 

I was born and raised in Texas.

[LisaNY]

nt

[Jean in Newcastle]

I grew up calling it hamburger. Now I call it ground beef because that is what the package says at the store. But I don't think you will be helped by where I grew up - I grew up in Japan! (But Mom grew up in Philly.)

[Kay in Cal]

Ground beef. Grew up lots of places, mostly midwest, west and east. I've never heard anyone say "hamburger meat"!

[Liz CA]

the ground meat that you use to make hamburgers? And with your answer, could you also say where you grew up?

 

I promise this is not a trick question. ;) I just didn't know before I moved to MA that there was more than one way to say this, and I'm wondering what other regional variations there are.

 

nt

[*anj*]

In CA it's been ground beef. Where I grew up it's Hackfleisch. (nt)

 

This is the reason that I love the German language. It is just so doggone descriptive. "Hacked flesh", right?

Love it!!

[TXMomof4]

Hamburger from Texas. And we drink coke (any carbonated, sweetened beverage)

[Melissa in Australia]

minced steak.

I am in Australia, and that is what everyone I know calls it. sounds so much nicer than ground beef

 

MelissaL

[Made Unfit]

Here in South Australia we call in 'mince'. Not minced beef or minced beef, just... mince.

[JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst]

I grew up in Michigan calling it either hamburger or ground beef. If you actually stood in a proper butcher shop (back then we had those) you might need to specify if you wanted a leaner cut (ie ground round or chuck). Of course I always thought the ground pork looked cooler because the shaped the tray of meat to look like a pig. I guess you can sculpt in many mediums. :001_smile:

 

Now that I live overseas I have to not only specify what animal I want my ground meat to come from but frequently I also need to order the percentage of fat to be included.

[Melanie in WI]

Hamburger and you drink it with a coke (generic name for any sort of soft drink).

 

Grew up in WI but my parents are from KY/IN. :001_smile:

 

I also grew up in Indiana and called it hamburger and drank with a coke. Here in Wisconsin it is usually called ground beef although we usually eat ground goat!