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A burger's load-bearing wall — everything else is just decoration.
means A flat, round, often pan-sized cake of ground meat, vegetable matter, or other food, cooked and typically served inside a bun or alongside other dishes.
from Patty comes from French pâté, which originally meant a pie or pastry filled with meat — itself from Old French paste, related to our word 'paste.' English speakers borrowed it, flattened its meaning along with its shape, and by the 1800s 'patty' had shrunk from 'filled pastry' down to just the meaty disc inside — the pastry wrapper got lost along the way, but the name for the filling stuck.
- name origin
- Comes from pâté, French for paste or pie
- shape science
- Dimpled center prevents puffing into a meatball
- not just beef
- Jamaican patties are pastry, not meat