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Settle this debate chicken burger or chicken sandwich?
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Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Burger in the US: any meat, any bun, but the meat must be ground and in a patty. Turkey, chicken, beef, don't matter
GuitarAtomik
Member
Just to be clear though, there are chicken burgers (and turkey burgers, and ostrich burgers, etc), but they are specifically ground up meat just like a hamburger is ground up beef.
Chicken sandwich: a piece of chicken in between bread/buns. Often breaded.
Chicken burger: the chicken is grounded and formed into a patty, just like beef.
You will almost never encounter a chicken burger.
frankie_baby
Member
Chicken sandwich: a piece of chicken in between bread/buns. Often breaded.
Chicken burger: the chicken is grounded and formed into a patty, just like beef.
You will almost never encounter a chicken burger.
Mcchicken sandwich is just the name of that particular chicken burger
AlexFlame116
Member
Who the flip says chicken burger? I've never heard of that ever being said where I live.
i was afraid this was the case.
This is how I handle it.
For example, the Chicken Sandwich menu item at Wendy's is a fried chicken breast, whereas the dollar menu version is more like a patty-shaped nugget. I'd say the big sandwich is undoubtedly a sandwich, but you could make a case for the dollar menu version being a burger due to the fact that it's ground chicken.
Starfish Hero
Member
I was born in Iowa, raised in Michigan, and live in Ohio. I have never seen the words "Chicken" and "Burger" back to back until this thread.
OG Shaka Zulu
Member
Sandwich. The meat lacks the texture to ever be a burger. A turkey burger is real, chicken burgers are nonexistent.
TheCochese
Banned
You keep being wrong. Why?
It triggers me too. I didn't know I had this trigger, but apparently I do.
Chicken sandwich: a piece of chicken in between bread/buns. Often breaded.
Chicken burger: the chicken is grounded and formed into a patty, just like beef.
You will almost never encounter a chicken burger.
Hilariously enough your example of the McDonalds menu item... is grounded patty in most (if not all, never seen otherwise called specifically McChicken Sandwich) territories. As in, literally what you're calling a chicken burger in your post.
Source: I've eaten likely 1,300 of them in my lifetime.
Fluffhead14
Member
It's probably a regional thing, but I don't think "chicken burger" is used as a name of a food item anywhere in the US.
A McChicken is essentially a giant nugget, which is essentially the definition of a "burger" that we normally would use (ground meat between buns). I still wouldn't ever call it a "chicken burger" though. It's a chicken sandwich.
Turkey burger, sure.
Salmon burger, yup.
Never have even heard chicken burger except for this thread.
A McChicken is essentially a giant nugget, which is essentially the definition of a "burger" that we normally would use (ground meat between buns). I still wouldn't ever call it a "chicken burger" though. It's a chicken sandwich.
Turkey burger, sure.
Salmon burger, yup.
Never have even heard chicken burger except for this thread.
UK here, Chicken Burger
Chicken between two pieces of flat bread = sandwhich
I'd call that a Chicken roll
I'd call that a Beef roll
Chicken between two pieces of flat bread = sandwhich
Look at all these burgers
I'd call that a Chicken roll
What is this then? Roast beef inside.
I'd call that a Beef roll
Anoregon
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OG Shaka Zulu
Member
Chicken burgers are haram.
Mr.Shrugglesã
Banned
The McChicken Sandwich disagrees with your baloney.
One and done. If it's not ground up or something akin to being ground up (like those veggie patties) it's not a burger, it's a sandwich.
Hell, they're BOTH sandwiches, but burger's a further clarification. Like how dogs and cats are mammals, but you don't go calling cats dogs just because they're both common household pets.
EDIT: With that said the fact it usually IS processed chicken is probably the biggest weak point here. It's not really prepared like a burger otherwise though, and this still means you wouldn't call a fillet sandwich a burger.
TheCochese
Banned
naa son.
That's a chicken roll.
Nice stromboli.
naa son.
That's a chicken roll.
Never seen that in my life, dunno if we have them in the UK, but i want one.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Nope. Stromboli's are similar but a stuffed roll is a different menu item.
This is how I feel as well.
well a turkey burger is made from ground turkey. So if the chicken is ground up into a hamburger patty, then yes it becomes a chicken burger. Otherwise its a chicken sandwich, local colloquial uses notwithstanding.
now if australians want to call their chicken sandwiches chicken burgers fine no one cares. I liked when they called them chooks, but hey what the fuck ever, right?
now if australians want to call their chicken sandwiches chicken burgers fine no one cares. I liked when they called them chooks, but hey what the fuck ever, right?
Etrian Oddity
Member
Burger is ground meat. A chicken breast or thigh is a sandwich.
You are all crazy.
You are all crazy.
Likewise, your American nomenclature means nothing to us. We'd never grind up good turkey meat when making a turkey burger. I think that should settle it.
lol well when you take regular turkey meat, in America, and put it in between some bread it becomes a turkey sandwich. That's the rules from the Earl of Sandwich himself. He didn't call his beef sandwich a burger, did he? When we, in America, put things between bread or in a bun, it doesn't automatically, in America, or anywhere else, become a burger.
But you can call them whatever you like.
But you can call them whatever you like.
Extra Sauce
Member
Breaded chicken patty: burger
Cooked pieces of chicken: sandwich
Simili-chicken: mistake
Cooked pieces of chicken: sandwich
Simili-chicken: mistake
Well then you'd be making a sandwich.
Slapping meat in between two buns isn't what makes it a burger.
GKSilKamina
Member
Why do y'all gotta make it so complicated? Can't we just eat chicken and be at peace?
The answer is chicken sandwich.
I Stalk Alone
Member
A burger is a type of sandwich.
here's your chicken burger.
yep. ground meat w/o breading - burger.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I looked at this and thought chicken sandwich and hamburger hamburgers.
but you could also talk about pork e.g. Pork burgers
So that leaves
Hamburger
Chicken burger
You can't add "ham" to it.
I guess it's another one of those "soda" or "pop" ordeals.
but you could also talk about pork e.g. Pork burgers
So that leaves
Hamburger
Chicken burger
You can't add "ham" to it.
I guess it's another one of those "soda" or "pop" ordeals.
Etrian Oddity
Member
A sandwich with ground meat.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
Chicken sandwiches aren't really shaped like burgers.
The bun doesn't matter. I've eaten a hot dog in a hamburger bun but nobody would say I ate a hot dog burger.
The bun doesn't matter. I've eaten a hot dog in a hamburger bun but nobody would say I ate a hot dog burger.
GoldenEye 007
Member
A burger is ground meat. Not finely minced or form pressed into a shape and battered.
If it was ground chicken, it's a burger. Same as beef. Same as salmon, etc. Anything else is a sandwich. All are sandwiches, but only some are burgers.
All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
If it was ground chicken, it's a burger. Same as beef. Same as salmon, etc. Anything else is a sandwich. All are sandwiches, but only some are burgers.
All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Sandwich. Burgers are only made from ham, you silly goose.
gutter_trash
Banned
hamburger is not about the bread,
hamburger is about the ground beef/meat
if it's not ground chicken, it's not a chicken burger
hamburger is about the ground beef/meat
if it's not ground chicken, it's not a chicken burger
Walter White Walker
Member
I've of course heard of hamburgers with beef, as well as turkey burgers. Can't recall hearing of fish burgers or chicken burgers - always heard those called sandwiches. Also with ham - ironically I suppose everything with it between two slices of bread I've always heard called a ham sandwich and not a ham burger.