Why is the Filet-O-Fish called a sandwich and everything else is a burger? They're all served on buns!?

Well, we call them Filet-O-Fish burgers AND McChicken burgers over here anyway.

Crab burger, shrimp burger, hamburger...then, fish sandwich.

Fish burger sounds, somehow, wrong, or is that social conditioning?

Answer is...social conditioning mandates.

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its not a burger and thats just a name for the sandwhich

Because the filet-o-fish is fish and not hamburger.

Maybe because it sounds better when you say Filet-O-Fish sanwich instead of burger.

burger as in hamburger?
hamburger is a type of ground beef..
fish is not ground beef
mc chicken is no called a burger

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Fishburger sounds disgusting.

Even BK's "Whaler" was better.

Burger refers to the meat. You can have a burger without the buns.

You should be asking. Why is it called a hamburger when it's made out of beef. Shouldn't it be a beefburger?

A burger is a type of hot sandwich.

the "O" stands for "On a bun"...=)

Easy, burger is the shorter form of hamburger. We get hamburger from the place called Hamburg, Germany. This is where hamburgers orginated. To be a "true" hamburger, there needs to be ground meat. The Filet-O-Fish does not contain ground meat (its a filet). Also, chicken sandwhiches are not burgers, because again, there is no ground meat. A sandwhich is anyfood placed on or between two pieces of bread. It was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. (I'm not joking)

isn't the chicken sandwich also called a sandwich?
(in the U.S.)

Over here we call them crap.

I think the 'burger' bit, for us uncouth Americans, implies chopped or ground meat. Nobody wants a fishmash sandwich...

sir edmund burger ruled it so in 1899.