Common ground meat used include beef, bison, elk, turkey, chicken, ostrich, and salmon.

[1] The term "patty" is used in many varieties of English, but less frequently in Britain and Ireland than in the United States.

[citation needed] Veggie burger patties are made without meat and instead use legumes, grains, other mixed vegetables, and/or soy products such as tofu or tempeh or seitan, a product made of wheat gluten, often mixed with a binding agent.

[12] Rissoles are meat (typically beef), or fish and other ingredients, coated in breadcrumbs or less frequently battered, and deep-fried; they are found in various European cuisines.

[19] An arepa is a dish of maize and other ingredients shaped into a patty and griddled; it has been eaten in parts of Central and South American since pre-Columbian times.

[26] Some patties, like steak tartare and Middle Eastern kibbeh nayeh, are served raw.

[9] With mass-produced patties, it is not uncommon to find them with seemingly abnormal shapes or a bumpy perimeter.