• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 hours ago

    Hamburgers, meatloaf, gumbo, and all sorts of southern food is American.

    *Edit. Some of you think hamburgers weren’t an American creation. Y’all are incorrect. The humburg meat was never put between bread. The sandwich hamburger is a US creation.

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      6 hours ago

      Hamburger were invited in Athens Texas. Just go ask that city they advertise that it was a man from that town at the World Fair in the 1930’s.

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      8 hours ago

      I have to think of a lot of fish dishes too. Since we only have them here. I don’t think Walleye is from anywhere else. Maybe I’m wrong.

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          7 hours ago

          Preparing pineapple or mango isn’t native either and included in these comparisons.

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            7 hours ago

            I didn’t say anything about nativeness. Also seems like you forgot to finish your sentence, I’m really not sure what you are trying to say here.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 hours ago

        You’re literally wrong. A hamburger as a sandwich is a US creation. So is gumbo. Literally do a 2 minute search about it before “thinking” you know what you’re talking about. Lol

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          I find it fascinating that almost half of the world has their own dumpling (ie. a small ball of a cheap source of protein and fat held together by a wrapping of flour dough; a peasant dish that’s most often boiled).

          I bet if you they would all dispute the origin of that food item.

        • neo2478@sh.itjust.works
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          7 hours ago

          My point is that US people tend to claim ownership to a lot of things that were not invented there. I’m all for sharing culture and food and transforming them to something new, but don’t claim they are your invention.

          Like as american as apple pie is an expression for a dish from Germany and the Netherlands.

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      8 hours ago

      Dude, Hamburgers are literally named after the non-US city they originally came from…
      But I have to admit that the refinement to its delicious present day form is an American achievement!

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        The original hamburger was more like a meatloaf. It was a hamburg steak, meant to be eaten with a fork and knife just like a modern meatloaf. The modern hamburger is 100% an American invention, because America was the place that first turned it into a sandwich.

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        6 hours ago

        That’s a Hamburg steak. Not a hamburger, since there’s no bun

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        7 hours ago

        Na, buddy. You’re wrong. The Hamburg thing is just about a mashed up piece of meat. Not the hamburger. Putting the meat in the bun to make a sandwich is 100% US like 125 years ago.

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          5 hours ago

          That’s quite disputed.
          One of the more likely theories states that the bun idea together with the ground meat steak originated in Hamburg, where it was a variant of the common “Rundstück warm”, which has been around since 200 years ago or so.

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            4 hours ago

            It’s less disputed than most food origins. I looked up your rundstuck warm food. Dunno why you’re trying to make that argument, because because that sure looks nothing like a hamburger, nor does it get eaten like one. That it didn’t use ground beef aside, it being covered in gravy is a dead giveaway.