All this hamburger talk makes me hungry... The meaning of the word hamburger is vague. It refers to the meat and the combination of the meat and bun. But the difference is if you want a hamburger, or some hambuger. It was probably called a "Hamburger on a Bun", until no body had every heard of a hamburger without a bun. So it just became "hamburger", then "burger", and probably in the future just "burg". --- DrinkingBeer.net - Always a good idea