“I was always eh… kinda wanted like to consider myself kind of a pioneer of the palate. A restaurateur if you will. I’ve wined, dined, sipped and supped in some of the most demonstrably demi-epitomable bistros in the Los Angeles metropolitan region. Eh-he-he-he… Yeah, I’ve had strange looking pattie melts at Norm’s. I’ve had dangerous veal cutlets at the Copper Penny. Well, what you get is a breaded Salisbury steak and a Shake‘n’Bake, and topped with a provocative sauce of Velveeta and half-and-half…, eh-he-he-he. Smothered with Campbell’s tomato soup. He-he-he-he… You see, I had kind of a eh… well, I ordered my veal cutlet, Christ it left the plate and it walked down to the end of the counter. (…?…) waitress (…?…), boy she’s wearing those rhinestone glasses with the little pearl thing clipped on her sweater. The veal cutlet come down trying to beat the shit out of my cup of coffee but… Coffee just wasn’t strong enough to defend itself. Eh-he-he-he…”

Maar wat is een Salisbury steak?

Salisbury steak is ground beef shaped to resemble a steak and usually served in brown sauce.

Salisbury steak is popular in the American South, where it is traditionally served with gravy and grilled onions. Salisbury steak is a common staple of public school lunches and frozen dinners.

En wat heeft het met Hamburg te maken?

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition), Salisbury steak was invented by an American physician, Dr. J. H. Salisbury (1823-1905) and named after him. The OED gives an 1897 citation. H.L. Mencken reported (in 1945) that the name was used to replace “hamburger steak” during World War I as a political euphemism.