It is called a Traffic Light!

Kalvaer said:
Dont doubt that, but my point is, it should be ground beef helper, not Hamburger helper. You're not making hamburgers with it, you making pasta with it
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I guess you'd need to delve into why they're called hamburgers in the first place. Then it makes more sense.

Besides, Ground beef helper really doesnt have much of a ring to it. :)
 
bwana said:
I guess you'd need to delve into why they're called hamburgers in the first place. Then it makes more sense.

Besides, Ground beef helper really doesnt have much of a ring to it. :)
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LOL that it doesn't!

As to why its called hamburgers, I actually did check up on it once, and think it was incorrectly named back then as well since it came from Steak Tartar IIRC, and was also only cooked much later in an attempt to destory bacteria. and was taken to the USA by a Belgian?

With the cooking though, You could call "braai'ing" cooking, since its "the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat"
 
Hamburgers came from sandwiches, which came from english folk wanting to eat yummy things without getting greasy fingers after a match of tennis.

that's what I think anyway.
 
Hamburgers came from sandwiches, which came from english folk wanting to eat yummy things without getting greasy fingers after a match of tennis.

that's what I think anyway.
 
Keeper said:
Hamburgers came from sandwiches, which came from english folk wanting to eat yummy things without getting greasy fingers after a match of tennis.

that's what I think anyway.
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http://www.wordsources.info/words-mod-sandwich.html

Where did the word “sandwich” come from?

The sandwich, which is most popular with world-wide eaters, functions as a noun or a verb and usually prefers to have its name pronounced as SAND wich. Besides the more obvious occupation of being something edible between two or more slices of bread, metaphorically speaking, it also likes to squeeze in between two other people, places, things, materials, etc.; as, he is willing to sandwich an appointment in between two other meetings or her car was sandwiched between two other cars in the parking lot.

The word sandwich that we use today was born in London during the very late hours one night in 1762 when an English nobleman, John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry for some food. The legend goes that he ordered a waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread. The Earl was able to continue his gambling while eating his snack; and from that incident, we have inherited that quick-food product that we now know as the sandwich. He apparently had the meat put on slices of bread so he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy while he was playing cards. It’s strange that the name of this sex fiend should have gone down in history connected to such an innocent article of diet.
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Kalvaer said:
LOL that it doesn't!

As to why its called hamburgers, I actually did check up on it once, and think it was incorrectly named back then as well since it came from Steak Tartar IIRC, and was also only cooked much later in an attempt to destory bacteria. and was taken to the USA by a Belgian?

With the cooking though, You could call "braai'ing" cooking, since its "the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat"
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I was just reading the wiki article on them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger - and while I always thought they originated in Hamburg, Germany it looks like it could well have been Hamburg, New York.

There's an clear distinction between the Hamburger (sandwich) and the Hamburger patty which could well have originated in Europe.
 
Can't believe the OP's anality :p

I'm a proud South African, yeah we have our own funny terms but thats what unifies and identifies us as a diverse people. We have a Braai, the Yanks have a BBQ and the Aussies have a "Barbie". Funny enough I heard Brit chef James Martin refer to it as a braai too on the BBC :D (if ever there was a guage to see how many "Saffers" have taken over London!)

Each country has funny terms for different things. A robot is a robot. A lift is a lift. A sofa is a sofa. Tomato sauce is tomato sauce. Chips are chips.

Although I must admit I get peeved whenever I hear newsreaders and most of us South Africans calling football 'soccer'. I can understand the Aussies and Americans calling it that because they already call other sports "football" but why us? And yes I know it's an abbreviation the official name for the sport Association Football but it still bugs me. lol. There's my anality too :D
 
bwana said:
I was just reading the wiki article on them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger - and while I always thought they originated in Hamburg, Germany it looks like it could well have been Hamburg, New York.

There's an clear distinction between the Hamburger (sandwich) and the Hamburger patty which could well have originated in Europe.
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Interesting :)

Still would rather have one of my mad cow t-bones :p
 
Kalvaer said:
I have a friend who now works for Weber, and he has started calling it a "BBQ" or an "outdoor cooking experience". It wanna burst out laughing every time
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I have to agree with him, a Weber isnt a Braai, a Braai consists of a wood fire preferably Namibian hardwood such as Kameeldoring or Sekelhout, for the best coals. Occasionaly Namibian charcoal may be used on the side, but only really to feed under the Potjie.
Anything else is not a braai, gas, webers, etc, are rightly named as BBQ's.
 
bwana said:
There's an clear distinction between the Hamburger (sandwich) and the Hamburger patty which could well have originated in Europe.
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Just saw that as well with the Hamburger "sandwich".

My mother in law bought me a book on Carpaccio's and Steak Tartare after I made her some springbok carpaccio. In there, they had the explaination that the patty itself originally came from the Tartars, who would put the meat under the saddles to soften it while riding their horses (Not sure what meat it was, but it could of been victims they killed as well) It spread through to europe were it essentially became Ground beef. It was only cooked much later when fears of Bacteria started cropping up. The french made a sauce for it which of course is called Tartare sauce. Which for some reason, we now use with fish instead?

Nanfeishen said:
I have to agree with him, a Weber isnt a Braai, a Braai consists of a wood fire preferably Namibian hardwood such as Kameeldoring or Sekelhout, for the best coals. Occasionaly Namibian charcoal may be used on the side, but only really to feed under the Potjie.
Anything else is not a braai, gas, webers, etc, are rightly named as BBQ's.
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That would be the perfect braai. I have a "Cadac Gas Braai" and I am not going to be calling it a BBQ. I still have the box that it came in, and it says Braai :) even if Cadac have now started calling it a BBQ. You can also use a "weber kettle" to do the exact same thing you just explained, so where do you draw the line?

If somebody is sitting outside Ellis park and uses Charcoal as well instead of wood, does it mean he is not having a braai on the hoek <sp?> by the robot?
 
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. . . and it's a traffic light.
 
bwana said:
. . . and it's a traffic light.
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:D :D :D

I actually also call it a traffic light. Though I also use words like Elevator, Soda & sidewalk, and for some reason all the wakeboarders got me into using the word gasoline when filling the boat up instead of petrol (Not that I have done that in year :( )

BUT............ a Braai is still a Braai, Not an, outdoor cooking experience
 
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