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The problem is that the origin is "hamburger ~~beef~~ steak" which is the beef patty that came from Germany. This was combined with a sandwich to create a "hamburger sandwich". Over time, the sandwich part was dropped and now here we are.
It wasn't even really a patty as we know it in burgers, it was more like a slice of breakfast sausage.
I'd argue if you put breakfast sausage on a bun it adequately fits the definition of a burger.
No, that's a mcmuffin, or a breakfast sandwich.
I mean if you wanna get technical a burger is just ground meat between two halves of a bun. Therefore one could argue a McMuffin is also a burger
Nope.
A burger is ground beef patties between two halves of a bun. Any other meat is a sandwich. The reason is that "burger" is short for "hamburger," which is the term we use for ground beef, so by definition, a burger is beef.
Veggie burgers are in a weird place, because they should be sandwiches, but since they're intended to be a drop-in veggie substitute, we call them burgers. But they're always prefixed with a qualifier, like "veggie burger" or "bean burger."
Wikipedia- Hamburger
Note that "typically" and "always" are of different meanings. I've made sliders with ground pork before, what is a slider if not a small burger?
A burger is a sandwich with a patty made of ground meat. That meat can be beef, pork, turkey, hell, even chicken if that's your sort of thing. And, like you said, veggies.
It's really pretty uncommon to call a chicken sandwich or a sausage breakfast sandwich a "burger." The term comes from the meat inside of it, hamburger, so generally speaking, other fillings will be called a "sandwich" instead of a "burger." I guess you could call those things burgers, but it would be weird.
And no, a "slider" isn't a "small burger" (it can be), it's a sandwich. A burger is also just a sandwich, so calling a specific sandwich a "burger" vs a "slider" means two different things, a "burger" is larger and generally has ground beef (but occasionally veggies or similar), and a "slider" is a small, usually round sandwich.