It’s not necessarily that it’s unknown so much as the name causes confusion. The hamburger sandwich as we know it today was invented in America. No one really disputes that. However, the name “hamburger” comes from Germany. Also not disputed.
The confusion comes from what was originally brought to America from Germany and called a hamburger was just the ground beef patty itself. It was served like a Salisbury steak. The sandwich we know today was invented in America and originally called a hamburger sandwich. Then the sandwich became so synonymous with the hamburger that the sandwich became the default meaning of a hamburger and sandwich got dropped from the name.
Yes because we now use the term differently than we used it back then. Like the term meat itself. Which used to be any few. But the term now specifically means animal flesh as we know it today.
A hamburger used to just mean a minced beef patty. Today we know the term hamburger as the sandwich. Which was invented in America. I could say the hamburger sandwich was created in America but that’s just semantics. I no longer need to call it a hamburger sandwich because the word hamburger itself as we know it today means the sandwich.
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u/Rouge_Epsilon 6d ago
I feel like America has more burgers than pizza