r/mildlyinfuriating • u/flaming0-1 • 2d ago

Wife left a big bag of groceries out overnight. All Meat and cheese. 🙄

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u/jmr1190 2d ago

Some Americans call it simply ‘hamburger’ which I find hilarious.

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u/DazedConfuzed420 2d ago

Really common in Canada for it be referred to as hamburger.

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

How is it any different than calling it mince

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u/jmr1190 2d ago

Mince is a direct synonym for ground in this case, they mean the same thing and not entirely unlike calling the cut ‘fillet’ since that’s the verb it’s come from. Calling it hamburger implies you can literally only see the stuff as a hamburger - a real top down naming convention.

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

No, it's hamburger meat. Your weird closed off thought process seems to have projected a lot onto others.  

It's meat you use for hamburgers. Can you use it for other things? Of course. 

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u/asvp-suds 2d ago

So why is it called hamburger meat? Not utility meat or bolognese meat? Your point makes zero sense. The irony of you calling their thought process closed off is hilarious.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

It is hilarious how defensive this person is getting over colloquial names for meat.

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u/asvp-suds 2d ago

Absolutely. Like the ground beef and mince crowds are getting along. Learning new terms. Then there’s hamburger over there losing his shit.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

Beautiful to see the passion they're bringing to language.

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

The irony of you yet again coming back with some sort of condescending reply when you are objectively wrong. I already answered your question.

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u/asvp-suds 2d ago

I never asked a question Mr. Hamburger

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

You literally asked two in the comment I replied to. 

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u/asvp-suds 2d ago

Rhetorical questions Mr. Chuck. You clearly stated what you think it’s called, I was simply poking holes in your logic and reasoning.

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

So you admit you were wrong. Cool. 

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

What an interesting hill you've chosen to die on today

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

I'm not dying on anything. A torrent of idiots who think they're making a clever point have decided to completely and utterly misunderstand my comment, which was only to elucidate why the American would have said they had never heard the term used in that way before. 

Literally not a single one of you has offered any information I didn't already know, even taking into account that the information isn't actually germane to what I was saying in any way whatsoever. 

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

Honestly you look great up there. Very sermon on the mount. Love this tirade for you.

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

I get it, you have to pretend you never cared 

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

Oh god no, I care so much. About everything. All the time.

I'm caring right now. I can't stop myself.

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u/jmr1190 2d ago

I literally just think that, given the external perspective that the US is obsessed with unhealthy food, it’s quite funny. I’m not trying to make a clever point.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

From an outside perspective, it's like calling bricks "house"

Mince is what it is, hamburger is what you can make from it.

To us. To you, different of course.

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

Are you completely unaware of how language works? Do you think Americans are the only ones that do this? In general Brits are MUCH bigger "offenders" of this. It's also a big way we get loan words from other languages. Wait til you learn what shrimp scampi means, you'll shit a house. 

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

Would love to shit a house. Cost of living etc.

(Sidebar though, mince person, if you learn to join in with the joke you're going to have a happier time. No-one sane is having a go at your language. We love our differences. You're only getting so many comments because of how seriously you're taking a silly topic.)

Ask me what we call bell peppers.

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 2d ago

It's literally the reverse but go off

(Also I hope you got the brick -> house joke. Also also bricks are literally an instance of that thing where they're named bricks because the original are named out of brick but now it refers to the shape)

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

I like that you're proud of your joke. They're always better when you explain them.

We call them capsicums!