• @jaybone
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    11 day ago

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

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      31 day ago

      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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        118 hours ago

        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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        21 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?