Let's settle this debate.

Ground beef or hamburger? What do you call it?

Everyone I ask seems to call it one or the other and is convinced that whatever they call it, it is the correct term. So, it had me wondering what the actual difference was.

Are they actually the same thing? Well, I googled it and this is what I found... 

Hamburger meat is essentially the same as ground beef, which can contain meat and trimmings from any of the primal cuts. But there's a difference between the two. Ground beef can't have extra beef fat added to the mix, while hamburger can, as long as it doesn't contain more than 30 per cent total fat.

I feel like people will still use the terms interchangeably and I'm sticking with calling it ground beef. 

What about you?

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~ Lauren