Hamburgers are called hamburgers because sandwiches of a bun and a ground beef patty were first popularised in Hamburg (New York) not because they have any ham in them. So terms like beef burger, chicken burger, lamb burger, fish burger and veggie burger are all misnomers. As indeed is the word burger unless you?re speaking Dutch or Afrikaans and what you mean is citizen. I?m not quite sure where I stand on cheeseburger. I don?t know why but this is really important to me. Now if you?ll excuse me I?m sure I had a life around here somewhere.