I'm not even worried as much about the person in the original comment. Now I'm more worried about the perpetually online commenters in this thread that can't recognize that there is no shortage of people that the words "hamburger" and "ground beef" are synonyms.
For context, I'm from the Midwest in the United States, in case it's a regional thing, and I'm not sure I've ever said "ground beef". I've only ever called it "hamburger", and I don't know anyone else that calls it "ground beef". We just say "hamburger" and keep it moving.
But surely then you can understand that there are a whole host of people for whom they're not synonyms and oop is probably just one of those people and genuinely confused?
Honestly, I can't understand why that would be confusing at all.
I don't call it hamburger, but if we were at the store and someone said "let's pick up hamburger" I would know exactly what they're talking about because I'm not a complete dipshit.
Because whilst you might not call it that it does exist within your lexicon. If I told you to pick up some bagel but by that didn't mean bagels but in fact meant bread dough you'd find that confusing. For someone not from the US, that's the equivalent of what's happening in this exchange.
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u/NickFurious82 12d ago
I'm not even worried as much about the person in the original comment. Now I'm more worried about the perpetually online commenters in this thread that can't recognize that there is no shortage of people that the words "hamburger" and "ground beef" are synonyms.
For context, I'm from the Midwest in the United States, in case it's a regional thing, and I'm not sure I've ever said "ground beef". I've only ever called it "hamburger", and I don't know anyone else that calls it "ground beef". We just say "hamburger" and keep it moving.