patties or burgers

[ostap77]

"I'll have beef patties with fries."

OR

"I'll have beefburgers with fries."

Would there be a difference?

[emsr2d2]

"I'll have beef patties with fries."

OR

"I'll have beefburgers with fries."

Would there be a difference?

Are you talking about an order in a fast food restaurant? If so, in BrE at least, we would say neither. We would say "I'll have a hamburger/cheeseburger/chickenburger and fries please".

"Patties" is not really used in BrE, though I think it's very common in AmE. They're called "burgers" in BrE.

[Tdol]

Doesn't patty refer to the uncooked item?

[TheParser]

[QUOTE=ostap77;830757]beef patties


beefburgers



NOT A TEACHER


(1) I may be wrong (of course!), but I think that most Americans use those two words

this way:

Mother: I am serving hamburgers tonight.

Father: Wow!

Son: Oh, boy!

Daughter: Mother, darling, I am on another diet. So I'll just have one

pattie, please.

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Hamburger = the meat and the bun (bread).

Pattie = the meat only.

EDIT: I have been reminded that the correct spelling is PATTY. Very sorry.

[Tdol]

Hamburger = the meat and the bun (bread).

Patty = the meat only.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[SoothingDave]

"Burger" could refer to just the patty as well. As in "I'm throwing some dogs and burgers on the grill."

I would never order a "patty."

A Big Mac has "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."

[Rover_KE]

If patty and burger appear as separate options on the menu, ask the server what the difference is.

Rover

[bhaisahab]

"I'll have beef patties with fries."

OR

"I'll have beefburgers with fries."

Would there be a difference?

As far as I know a patty is a Jamaican food item, it consists of meat (often beef), fish or vegetables in pastry. So to me a beef patty with fries is completely different to a beefburger with fries. Not that I would eat either, being a vegetarian.

[Rover_KE]

In Five Guys (an American burger franchise), the order clerks shout to the cooks 'One patty'/'two patties' etc depending on whether the customer has ordered a single or double burger.

Rover

[SoothingDave]

Five Guys is great. The double burger is the "regular" with a half pound of meat. You have to order the "little hamburger" if you only want a quarter pound.