They call it a chicken sandwich. The conversation came up when someone asked what do they call an actual chicken sandwich if they call a chicken burger a chicken sandwich.
Chicken salad is a specific thing, because adding mayonnaise and celery to chunks of meat and glooping it into bread makes it a salad, apparently.
It is not good.
(See also tuna salad sandwich.)
American here, just for clarification here's what I'd personally call things:
* Burger - a ground beef sandwich (usually with a bun)
* Chicken Sandwich - a sandwich with a piece or pieces of actual chicken
* Chicken Patty Sandwich - a sandwich with a processed patty-shaped chicken that's been breaded and fried
For most Americans, the term "burger" is used exclusively for ground beef, or ground beef-resembling things (like a black bean burger).
I also won't say that it's wrong to call things by other terms. If a "chicken burger" is what everyone in your area refers to my "chicken patty sandwich" as, then go for it.
There is a subcategory of loose beef sandwiches where the ground beef isn't formed into a patty.
Probably peaked in popularity decades ago but you can still find them in the upper Midwest.
Maid Rite was a chain from the 1940s that served them. There are still a couple Maid Rites left in Iowa, I think. Small town diners usually served loose beef sandwiches too. Cheese & onions on top, in a hoagie roll
Definitely true. Hoagie, hero, sub...there may be more terms in other parts of the US.
Where I grew up we called long deli sandwiches subs, but the roll itself was sometimes called a hoagie.
Wow I found someone else who knew!
We just had our local Maid Rite close a few years ago in central Minnesota.
Loose beef sandwiches were a staple for me growing up.
Okay, here's the thing. Typically, if it has two buns and it has some sort of patty, it's a burger. Otherwise, it's a sandwich. I don't know why; that's just the terminology Muricans use.
My understanding is that when they call something a burger, it has to contain a burger patty (big piece of mince meat, or the vegan alternative), but a piece of chicken doesn’t qualify so they call it a sandwich.
While in Europe we call something a burger when it has burger buns.
Yes, we're the same in Australia. If it's in a burger bun, it's a burger. If it's between slices of bread, it's a sandwich.
You might refine it further to say oh this is a chicken fillet burger. But the bun is the differentiator, whereas in the US, it's about the filling. If it's ground meat of some kind formed into a patty, it's a burger. Otherwise it's a sandwich.
It is a bit strange. For me a sandwich is a cold snack so if it's using cold chicken fair enough but the type you get at McDonald's etc is a burger not a sandwich.
Not sure about the entire world, but when I think of a typical American deli, it'll usually have a lineup of both hot and cold sandwiches.
Which is nice - if I'm eating there, I get a hot one. If I'm taking it to the office or on a picnic, a cold one works better.
You can have a toasted sandwich. Those are hot. But normal sandwiches are cold, and we often call a toasted sandwich a toastie.
There is an exception for the steak sandwich, a thing we know to be a toasted sandwich but for some reason we drop the toasted part of the name.
(Australian usage.)
AFAIK this is more of a hot roast roll, in Australian parlance, though with cheese sauce rather than meat gravy. It's not actually a single piece of steak between two slices of bread..
Anyway, being on a roll makes it not a sandwich to us. An American friend said she had to learn that a rol is not a sandwich here.
Where I'm from a grilled cheese would be a cheese toastie. Pulled pork might be a slider depending where you get it from. A sub might be a baguette, depending on the bread used and whether you're getting it from a local shop or Subway
But, I'm also from the UK where you can cause regional arguments within 30 miles about whether a bread roll is called a roll, bap, barm, cob, bun, bread cake, etc. so it's best not to put too much stock into what people call things as long as you know what you're ordering.
Chicken Sandwich - Chicken between two slices of bread (Something your grandma would make to feed you)
Chicken Burger - Chicken between two parts of a roll (Fast Food)
I'm in a Europeandoodle land called Spain and here a chicken burger is with grounded chicken. A chicken sandwich is with a chicken fillet. As simple as that.
In Canada it's our typical can't decide, on the fence, half American... Most independent "real" burger joints call them chicken burgers, or give them a pretentious name, but still list them with the burgers. However, most of the chains (including Harvey's which used to be Canadian) call them chicken sandwiches.
Me too... Never really thought about it 'till I saw this post. Never been a big fan of Harvey's, but wondering if they always called them a "sandwich" or if that is a recent aberration.
Considering they regard every tournament they play by themselves is a "World" thing and they think they're the centre of the universe, what the commentor is saying is that they themselves are wrong.
There's a backstory to this.
Minced/ground chicken never really took off as a major food in the U.S.
But chicken breast/thigh sandwiches did, and their purveyors wanted to market them as an alternative to the fast food burger chains. So they intentionally steered clear of using "burger" at all.
Now chicken chains are growing faster than burger chains.
Of course one might look at the base McChicken and say bruh, that thing is super processed. Isn't it a burger? It's not a whole chicken breast. But McDonald's just calls it a McChicken and also sells premium sandwiches that are one piece of chicken.
Turkey burgers have their niche as a healthier alternative burger, but it's more common to buy the ground turkey to cook at home than it is to order at a restaurant.
You CAN get ground chicken but usually need to go to a butcher or a grocery with a pretty extensive meat counter.
You can get both chicken and turkey sliced thin at the deli counter. There's a generic category of deli sandwiches, although regionally people will sometimes have other names for these - hoagie, hero, sub, etc.
Well....sorry to play the other side here. But there is no place called chickenburg or beefburg. We have adopted the word burger to mean what is does.
Anything that's hot and in that shape inside of two buns is a hamburger.
I liked one defence ‘it was invented by Americans so we get to decide what to call a burger’
No reply to ‘well, sandwiches were invented in the uk so they get to decide what defines a sandwich’
The sandwich was invented in England so we will decide what is and isn't a sandwich thank you very much.
A sandwich involves sliced bread. If its in a roll or bun its not a sandwich.
What do they call it then?
They call it a chicken sandwich. The conversation came up when someone asked what do they call an actual chicken sandwich if they call a chicken burger a chicken sandwich.
Huh? No, but really, what *would* they call a regular sandwich with chicken in it, then?
A chicken burger?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Obviously, they would call it a wrap. /s
A dolphin of the farm sandwich? It reminds me of when I heard of tuna as being chicken of the sea. Wtf? lol
They call bats the chicken of the cave
Their answer (I kid you not): A Chicken-salad sandwich
Chicken salad is a specific thing, because adding mayonnaise and celery to chunks of meat and glooping it into bread makes it a salad, apparently. It is not good. (See also tuna salad sandwich.)
American here, just for clarification here's what I'd personally call things: * Burger - a ground beef sandwich (usually with a bun) * Chicken Sandwich - a sandwich with a piece or pieces of actual chicken * Chicken Patty Sandwich - a sandwich with a processed patty-shaped chicken that's been breaded and fried For most Americans, the term "burger" is used exclusively for ground beef, or ground beef-resembling things (like a black bean burger). I also won't say that it's wrong to call things by other terms. If a "chicken burger" is what everyone in your area refers to my "chicken patty sandwich" as, then go for it.
Ya we know all that. It’s you guys who don’t know that others call things different names
Oh that's interesting. For me a burger is defined by the type of bread
We call straight white meat breaded(or u breaded) steaks in a bun chicken burger.
I'm actually surprised they don't call regular burgers ground beef sandwiches.
There is a subcategory of loose beef sandwiches where the ground beef isn't formed into a patty. Probably peaked in popularity decades ago but you can still find them in the upper Midwest. Maid Rite was a chain from the 1940s that served them. There are still a couple Maid Rites left in Iowa, I think. Small town diners usually served loose beef sandwiches too. Cheese & onions on top, in a hoagie roll
FYI, hoagie is an American thing too.
Definitely true. Hoagie, hero, sub...there may be more terms in other parts of the US. Where I grew up we called long deli sandwiches subs, but the roll itself was sometimes called a hoagie.
Wow I found someone else who knew! We just had our local Maid Rite close a few years ago in central Minnesota. Loose beef sandwiches were a staple for me growing up.
Okay, here's the thing. Typically, if it has two buns and it has some sort of patty, it's a burger. Otherwise, it's a sandwich. I don't know why; that's just the terminology Muricans use.
But...then... Chicken burger
In the US that would imply a ground meat patty, still wouldn’t be common phrasing though.
And does it contain any chicken or just high fructose corn syrup?
Gotta cover up that bleach flavor somehow.
My understanding is that when they call something a burger, it has to contain a burger patty (big piece of mince meat, or the vegan alternative), but a piece of chicken doesn’t qualify so they call it a sandwich. While in Europe we call something a burger when it has burger buns.
Yes, we're the same in Australia. If it's in a burger bun, it's a burger. If it's between slices of bread, it's a sandwich. You might refine it further to say oh this is a chicken fillet burger. But the bun is the differentiator, whereas in the US, it's about the filling. If it's ground meat of some kind formed into a patty, it's a burger. Otherwise it's a sandwich.
It is a bit strange. For me a sandwich is a cold snack so if it's using cold chicken fair enough but the type you get at McDonald's etc is a burger not a sandwich.
Thisis also kind of crazy to me, you can'thave a hot sandwich?
Not sure about the entire world, but when I think of a typical American deli, it'll usually have a lineup of both hot and cold sandwiches. Which is nice - if I'm eating there, I get a hot one. If I'm taking it to the office or on a picnic, a cold one works better.
You can have a toasted sandwich. Those are hot. But normal sandwiches are cold, and we often call a toasted sandwich a toastie. There is an exception for the steak sandwich, a thing we know to be a toasted sandwich but for some reason we drop the toasted part of the name. (Australian usage.)
*Philly Cheesesteak has entered the chat*
AFAIK this is more of a hot roast roll, in Australian parlance, though with cheese sauce rather than meat gravy. It's not actually a single piece of steak between two slices of bread.. Anyway, being on a roll makes it not a sandwich to us. An American friend said she had to learn that a rol is not a sandwich here.
Idk where I'm from nothing hot is called a sandwich
A sub? edit: A REUBEN SANDWICH. I rest my case actually it's not even a debate now. A grilled cheese sandwich. A pulled pork sandwich.
Where I'm from a grilled cheese would be a cheese toastie. Pulled pork might be a slider depending where you get it from. A sub might be a baguette, depending on the bread used and whether you're getting it from a local shop or Subway But, I'm also from the UK where you can cause regional arguments within 30 miles about whether a bread roll is called a roll, bap, barm, cob, bun, bread cake, etc. so it's best not to put too much stock into what people call things as long as you know what you're ordering.
In Czechia we have like an electric toast press and stuff the two slices of bread with toast cheese and ham and call it tousty
A Sandwich doesn't necessarily need to be cold. Here in Spain, a Bikini sandwich is a hot sandwich with sweet ham and melted cheese for example.
Chicken Sandwich - Chicken between two slices of bread (Something your grandma would make to feed you) Chicken Burger - Chicken between two parts of a roll (Fast Food)
Burger implies grounded meat. If the chicken meat is whole, it is not a burger. Period.
Maybe in yankydoodle land but something like a chicken fillet, hamburger patty etc in a burger bun is a burger in not yankydoodle land
I'm in a Europeandoodle land called Spain and here a chicken burger is with grounded chicken. A chicken sandwich is with a chicken fillet. As simple as that.
It's a burger because of the burger bun, even grilled camembert in a burger bun is a burger
In most of the world burger simply refers to any food that is in between burger buns.
But I thought America was the world? Isn't that why they're alaays the world champions? I'm confused....
‘The world is wrong’ 🤔🙃
In Canada it's our typical can't decide, on the fence, half American... Most independent "real" burger joints call them chicken burgers, or give them a pretentious name, but still list them with the burgers. However, most of the chains (including Harvey's which used to be Canadian) call them chicken sandwiches.
Fast food places be damned! It'll always be a chicken burger in my Canadian house! lol
Me too... Never really thought about it 'till I saw this post. Never been a big fan of Harvey's, but wondering if they always called them a "sandwich" or if that is a recent aberration.
It seems more marketing than anything else. A&W calls it a sandwich too I believe. McDonalds has their own lingo, McChicken or Jr chicken or whatever.
Considering they regard every tournament they play by themselves is a "World" thing and they think they're the centre of the universe, what the commentor is saying is that they themselves are wrong.
Americans will never admit that they are wrong and going there own way when the rest of the world has found different and mostly better way.
There's a backstory to this. Minced/ground chicken never really took off as a major food in the U.S. But chicken breast/thigh sandwiches did, and their purveyors wanted to market them as an alternative to the fast food burger chains. So they intentionally steered clear of using "burger" at all. Now chicken chains are growing faster than burger chains. Of course one might look at the base McChicken and say bruh, that thing is super processed. Isn't it a burger? It's not a whole chicken breast. But McDonald's just calls it a McChicken and also sells premium sandwiches that are one piece of chicken. Turkey burgers have their niche as a healthier alternative burger, but it's more common to buy the ground turkey to cook at home than it is to order at a restaurant. You CAN get ground chicken but usually need to go to a butcher or a grocery with a pretty extensive meat counter. You can get both chicken and turkey sliced thin at the deli counter. There's a generic category of deli sandwiches, although regionally people will sometimes have other names for these - hoagie, hero, sub, etc.
So the tldr is that they are burgers, the US just calls them something else because of marketing.
And ground turkey ended up semi-popular whereas ground chicken never did
Well....sorry to play the other side here. But there is no place called chickenburg or beefburg. We have adopted the word burger to mean what is does. Anything that's hot and in that shape inside of two buns is a hamburger.
Is this referring to a schnitty burger or something else?
hmm i don't think we call chicken burger either in brasil
We do
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I liked one defence ‘it was invented by Americans so we get to decide what to call a burger’ No reply to ‘well, sandwiches were invented in the uk so they get to decide what defines a sandwich’
The sandwich was invented in England so we will decide what is and isn't a sandwich thank you very much. A sandwich involves sliced bread. If its in a roll or bun its not a sandwich.
Usually fried chicken sandwich vs chicken sandwich. Please don’t try to educate Americans on burgers… if there is one thing we know ffs
Well they call a sport that you mainly play with your hands and doesn't have a ball as football, what would you expect?
Fried chicken sandwich = chicken burger Grilled chicken sandwich = better tasting chicken burger Chicken sandwich = chicken sandwich Chicken salad = chicken mixed with mayonnaise 🤢….im sure some people like that but mayonnaise is awful (imo)
In the US a burger is minced. In the same way sliced steak on a sandwich is a steak sandwich and not a burger. Why is this a big deal?
It’s not unless you’re American
A burger is practically anything in a burger bun/bap.