Yes, because vegan burgers, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, tastes almost, but not quite, completely unlike a real burger.
This conversation wouldn’t take place anywhere other than at a restaurant that is at least primarily vegan. The patron would (or at least should) be well aware of that ahead of time. Merriam-Webster defines a burger as 1. a hamburger(which is not exactly what is being ordered or offered) or 2. as “a sandwich similar to a hamburger” and gives a tofu burger as an example. It’s fine to call a non-meat burger a burger, just not a hamburger (not the case here; MW defines this as involving beef, which would also distinguish hamburgers from burgers made with other animal-based protein). I love beef burgers and would probably be dead by now if I ate them as often as I would like to, but if I’m being honest, I’ve had some non-meat burger that were very tasty. Some try to mimic beef (usually not very successfully) and some are a unique food stuff, but may acceptably be used culinarily in the same way as the meat patty in a meat burger. Describing a meat burger as a “real” burger doesn’t make sense unless you are comparing it to a burger made of non-food materials. Even a burger made with lab-grown meat would still be a real burger, provided that it is similar to a hamburger and edible.
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Yes, because vegan burgers, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, tastes almost, but not quite, completely unlike a real burger.
This conversation wouldn’t take place anywhere other than at a restaurant that is at least primarily vegan. The patron would (or at least should) be well aware of that ahead of time. Merriam-Webster defines a burger as 1. a hamburger(which is not exactly what is being ordered or offered) or 2. as “a sandwich similar to a hamburger” and gives a tofu burger as an example. It’s fine to call a non-meat burger a burger, just not a hamburger (not the case here; MW defines this as involving beef, which would also distinguish hamburgers from burgers made with other animal-based protein). I love beef burgers and would probably be dead by now if I ate them as often as I would like to, but if I’m being honest, I’ve had some non-meat burger that were very tasty. Some try to mimic beef (usually not very successfully) and some are a unique food stuff, but may acceptably be used culinarily in the same way as the meat patty in a meat burger. Describing a meat burger as a “real” burger doesn’t make sense unless you are comparing it to a burger made of non-food materials. Even a burger made with lab-grown meat would still be a real burger, provided that it is similar to a hamburger and edible.