• Blackout
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      302 days ago

      And German chocolate cake from Deutschschokoladenkuchen

      • NielsBohron
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        162 days ago

        Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can’t remember which) was named “German” and I think the original name was “German’s chocolate cake”

        • @[email protected]
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          62 days ago

          It’s also just a super German state from an immigration perspective. At the time, the Mexicans were very upset by all of the Europeans jumping the borders and taking work they didn’t particularly want anyway.

          • @TexasDrunk
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            132 days ago

            A lot of folks don’t realize that. We have cities like Fredericksburg and New Braunfels and events like Wurstfest and water parks like Schlitterbahn. We have Shiner Bock and Ziegenbock beer.

            There’s a lot of German heritage running around here.

            • faust
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              31 day ago

              Pretty heavily found in parts of Michigan and Ohio, too.

    • @jaybone
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      Wasn’t the hamburger invented in the US? There they had Frikadellen, which are arguably much better.

      • @SlopppyEngineer
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        As far as the story goes, the meat-in-a-bun concept was taken by sailors from Hamburg to the USA, where it was tweaked for local preferences and then called a hamburger. So the Germans invented it, USA marketed it.

        • @StaticFalconar
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          When you go back further it was the romans that brought that concept to Germany. Romans invented it, Germany tweaked it, and USA went further with it.

        • Victor
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          18 hours ago

          So they

          1. Applied previous knowledge
          2. Created something observed to be new
          3. Named it

          And that doesn’t count? What’s the definition of inventing something? If I create a new flavor of bread, does it not count because flour was already invented?