[Grammar] I am a hamburger

[Snappy]

"I am a hamburger" is a strange expression. It should be "I'd like a hamburger" if I want to order a hamburger.
A Japanese site explains that it is acceptable in the following conversation. Is that true?

You go to a burger place with some of your friends.

Attendant: May I help you?
A: I'd like a Big Mac.
B: I'd like a hamburger and a small order of fries.
C: I am a cheeseburger.

 

[Barb_D]

No, that doesn't sound natural to me at all.

One way it does work is when the server comes to your table. Then one person might say "I'm the lasagna" and the other person might say "And I'm the burger." This would be a shortcut of saying "I'm the person who ordered the..."

But just "I'm a cheeseburger"? No.

 

[TheParser]

"I am a hamburger" is a strange expression. It should be "I'd like a hamburger" if I want to order a hamburger.
A Japanese site explains that it is acceptable in the following conversation. Is that true?

You go to a burger place with some of your friends.

Attendant: May I help you?
A: I'd like a Big Mac.
B: I'd like a hamburger and a small order of fries.
C: I am a cheeseburger.

***** NOT a teacher *****

I think that C could say:

I feel like a cheeseburger.

That is: I feel like having/eating a cheeseburger.

***** NOT a teacher *****

 

[SoothingDave]

It's what JFK would have said, had he given his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Hamburg.

 

[Barb_D]

Sadly, I had the same thought...