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Java isn't Javascript, but that ham analogy is dumb as fuck and I feel bad for anyone who internalizes it after hearing it from someone else.
How is it dumb? Ham and hamsters are two totally different things but sound similar. Java and JavaScript are two totally different things but sound similar. It's a way to immediately explain to a non technical person in a way they can grok.
It's dumb because it can't be reliably extrapolated to other instances.
It's perfectly reasonable for someone to think Java and JavaScript are related. It's not reasonable for people to think ham and hamsters are related.
This is a result of badly naming something because the ECMAscript creator wanted to ride the coattails of the 'hot new thing' at the time, which was Java.
For example, people shouldn't immediately doubt whether Godot and GodotScipt are related because Java and Javascript are not. Your hamster analogy falls apart here because it only describes an exception, not a rule.