My parents and parents-in-law pronounce it “hamburg”

Are they from Pittsburgh?

Mang, dey is sho stoopit!

Are they also the kind of people who say "whip cream" and "mash potatoes"?

Upstate PA, r1.

Is it a PA thing?

Gumband

It needs washed.

[quote] It needs warshed.

FIFY

Oh my god, that was a New England term many years ago.

I HATED that word. it sounds disgusting.

I'm a vegetarian now.

My husband's family says hamburgs or burgs. They are from Grand Rapids MI. I'm from Minnesota and had never heard that until I met him.

I think it's an age thing. I've heard it from older people where I grew up in PA and in OH, but also in the Midwest.

R7: my MA mother uses it as to mean raw ground (minced) beef, but never for a cooked burger itself.

I grew up with "Tose new Hamburg steaks what like on das Kommißbrot und dee Zwiebel und Essiggurke" and plenty of salt, pepper and Dusseldorf mustard, but the OP's family one generation up sounds a little rough.

Do they have tardy kinesha?

Sometimes old people make up their own slang. They’re allowed to do that.

“Getting a hamburg, then onto murd Moth!”

“Good, you’ll need your strength to kill that old bitch!”

When we moved from KY to Grand Rapids, I heard "hamburg" for the first time. We had also never heard the term "sleep in."

In olden days, they were referred to as a “Hamburg Sandwich,” which eventually was shortened to “hamburger.” If you look at menus from the first half of the 20th century, you sometimes see it this way.

You’re making me hungry, I’m jumping in my grocery getter

R17, I learned the term “grocery getter” from a Brady Bunch thread a week or two ago.

R11 Schwabisch?

My grandfather called it that too.

"Run down to the butcher and get a pound of hamburg!"

They don't, OP.

When I lived in Western New York, it was occasionally shortened to "hamburg" or "cheeseburg" by both people and restaurants.

Fun fact: Hamburg is a suburb of Buffalo (located in Western New York, for those of you not up on your New York state geography), and claims to be the origination point OF the hamburger.

[quote]R7 Oh my god, that was a New England term many years ago.

My Boston grandmother used to use the term “hamburg” for ground sirloin in general. Like, an ingredient.

R15: “sleep in” was novel?

It was to us Kentuckians!

“Sleep in” is a phrase I didn’t hear until I was an adult. I grew up in New Jersey and am an eldergay. We would say “sleep late.”

I’ve always wondered where it came from. Of course I slept in. I didn’t sleep out. What does “in” have to do with how long I slept?

'Cheebarger, cheebarger, cheebarger, chip, chip, Coke, Coke...'

R23, my parents would do the same. Refer to ground beef as ‘hamburg’. But the actual burgers were called burgers.

My father’s mother would call the whole hamburger a ‘hamburg’, though. Growing up around this, I assumed it was normal. It took me a while to realize the actual ground beef was called… ground beef.

And yes, I’m from “upstate PA” myself. Couple hours north of Pittsburgh, with some Great Lakes inflection, too.

We Kentuckians also got confused by the words "soda" and "pop" regarding a beverage. Don't remember which was which, but there was a difference in how it was used.

Epic Fail, r27!

"Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi!"

I'm a NJ raised geezer, and recognize "sleep in".

A funny NJ story that someone in a NYC writing class used the term "chop meat" for hamburger. I asked where he was from (originally), getting a response of a New Jersey town near where I'm from.

So, OP?

OMG!,!!!! My dearly departed father always said a Hamburg! It drove me crazy!!! I grew up in California so that was crazy. BUT he grew up in Erie , PA so that makes sense. Awww - I haven’t thought about that in years!!!

[quote]R30: Epic Fail, [R27]! "Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi!"

I checked, and you're right.

How odd. Sometime during the four-and-a-half decades since that SNL episode aired, my memory got 'Pepsi' switched for 'Coke.' Probably from listening to friends repeating the sketch incorrectly (and I know exactly who, too, but I can't bitch him out for it, 'cuz he died some seventeen years ago).

Did Joan Crawford guest star on SNL?

Incidentally! My vagina has been described as looking and smelling like HAMBURG by my victims for YEARS!

I never knew what they meant!

Thanks, friends!

[quote]My parents and parents-in-law pronounce it “hamburg”

They're idiots.