Hambaagu

[tabular_rasa]

So, the 5th graders are on the chapter in Eigo Noto about foods. The text comes with a page of flashcards in the back for the kids to cut out, and included is both a card for what the Japanese call hanbaagaa and for what they call hanbaagu-- with and without buns, respectively

Comments

[product_of_84]

Hamburg is hamburg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#Japan
Though you could make the argument it's the same as one of the other variations, I'd say the Japanese incarnation is unique.

[kattersface]

In my opinion, it's meatloaf, just cooked in a patty instead of a loaf. The ingredients are the same as meatloaf! It tastes like meatloaf! It's just that without an oven, it's easier to cook it as a patty than as a loaf.
I have heard of Salisbury steak on the east coast USA, but I don't think that generally includes all those bread crumbs and onions and spices and stuff that they put in "hamburgu."
However, all that is complicated to explain, so I just let it slide as "hamburg." For class I would just skip/replace the haanbagu card and avoid the issue, personally.

[ginapagott]

It's like a flat meatloaf patty!

[megaraptor]

Considering I have never, ever heard any English speaker refer to hambaagu as anything other than hamburg, I would say you should probably teach it as hamburg. We just don't have the dish as the kids know it in the states. If we did, we would already be calling it that.

[abbajen]

I thought a hamburger without a bun was a hamburg or Salisbury steak. (I'm from PA).

[nymphti]

Seconded. I'm from MA and we say that, too.

[konoichi]

Little did the textbook writers know what a field of meat concern they were dealing with.

[krillia]

The textbook writers did not think heavily on many things such as these.

/bitter

[moldypotatochip]

seconded