Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • MooseGas
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    21 year ago

    It’s not a chicken burger or a veggie burger, etc. It’s a chicken hamburger or a vegetable hamburger.

    Show me the city Chickenburg on a map and I will call it a chicken burger.

    • @fubo
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      1 year ago

      I’ll bet you’re not a chocoholic either; you don’t fly a quadcopter; you’ve never entered a hackathon or danceathon; never complained about stagflation, tipflation, greedflation, or bridezillas; and you don’t own a Goldendoodle.

      (These, and “chicken burger”, are all examples of linguistic rebracketing.)

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      The word burger has been separated from its origins in Hamburg. In modern use, a hamburger is a beef patty, and a burger is any meat patty. Deal wit it

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        The real question is…what should we call a burger made from ground ham?

        While traveling in Spain many years ago…and completely desperate for a good old fashioned American cheeseburger, I spotted a street vendor selling ‘hamburgers’…and in my haste and desperation, ordered two. You cannot possibly know the misery that came over me as I realized half-way into my first bite that it was ground ham.

      • MooseGas
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        11 year ago

        Why does a hamburger with cheese become a cheeseburger? When I put pickles on a hamburger it doesn’t become a pickle burger. None of this makes sense.

        What is just a burger?