Antedating of "Hamburger Steak"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Jan 1 21:28:38 UTC 2006


>hamburger steak (OED 1889)
>
>1873 _N.Y. Times_ 19 Jan. 5 (ProQuest)  We can have a Hamburger steak,
>which is simply a beefsteak redeemed from its original toughness by being
>mashed into mince-meat and then formed into a conglomerated mass.
>
Yum.  No wonder they've sold in the hundreds of billions, with that
kind of mouth-watering description...

Larry



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