So explain the Turkeyburger…
No, it was invented in Denmark. cite
Are you referring to Thag with a G, after whom the Thagomizer on the end of a stegosaur’s tail is named?
That’s pretty self explanatory. Harder to explain is the nearby Syriaburger. Instead of a bun it’s served on a sword.
Turkeyburg is just south of Ankara.
Quoth BigBertha:
Humans have been eating and enjoying meat since long before we were humans. Despite what extremist vegetarian propaganda would have you think, we’re naturally omnivores. Meat may be more palatable cooked, but the same is also true of most plant-based foods, and in fact, unlike meat, many plants can’t be eaten raw (at least, not to any nutritional benefit).
Growing up in New England, I heard this often. I’m not sure if I ever used it myself, but it makes perfect sense to me.
…and nine months later a slider is born.
Try some steak tartare. Raw beef can be bloody delicious.
Now just about any ground up substance qualifies as a “burger” e.g. turkey, shrimp, salmon, etc. Except a mushroom burger. A mushroom burger is a hamburger with mushrooms.
Unless it’s a Portabella burger, which is a single Portabella cap on a bun (not ground up at all).
Wiki also says that the controlled use of fire pre-dates homo sapiens, but the use of fire for cooking is more debated (wiki’s numbers range from 40k to 1.5 million years, with 250k being the most accepted). Wiki says cooking with heat/fire is unique to humans.
I guess if fire was used to ward of night predators, maybe one tried to have a human-snack anyway, but fell into a fire, and died. Then humans go “why waste a good hyena?”. 
How did they taste?
C’mon, you know somebody had to ax.
Soylen Green Schweberen ist der Volk!
It is perfectly fine to take umbrage.
As long as one gives it back.
“Hamburgers” first–
The hamburger we know today(cooked ground beef on a bun) was almost certainly available in the US around 1880. While it’s possible that the Germans had something similar in that time frame, I doubt it had the popularity it did in the US. Prior to that time frame, Hamburger steak, at least in my opinion, was more of a cheap cut of beef which had been “tenderized” and then cooked. Kinda what we might think of today as a “cube” steak. Not minced, just mechanically tenderized.
“Hot Dog”–
Here’s the latest in the hunt for the origin of the “hot dog.” Barry Popik is the authority and always will be. The latest takes it back to 1892 in the US.
Prior to that time, it was a “frankfurter sausage” or other similar terms.
The ancient Romans had chopped beef sandwiches, fried, on buns. Flavored with pine seeds, I believe.
Et tu, Hamburglar?
Pronounced Wedgie Burg
I call ground beef hamburg, too. I thought everyone would know what I meant if I said, “Cook up some hamburg for that spaghetti sauce”. Maybe it’s a Massachusetts thing.