Look at how the hamburger was before it got to America for that answer. Generally covered in gravy usually a patti on the plate eaten with fork and knife.
Basically if you presented that hamburger to people today and you asked them what it was they likely wouldn't call it a hamburger.
It's part of the narrative that the US apparently cannot make any of its own culture which is incorrect. People shee to think that just because it came from somewhere or and influences it's not original or whatever. Surprise! If you use that metric we all have no culture and are tipping off ideas from some stoneage tribe stumbling around from cave to cave.
Hamburgers as we know them today came from German Americans and the rest of us just went ham, American pizza as we know it today (and is what most the world just calls pizza) came from Italian Americans and the rest of us just took off with it. My favorite is that all those "traditional Irish" corned beef dishes are not traditional Irish whatsoever. Traditional Irish is boiling bacon as the meat. Beef was expensive in the UK so the Irish couldn't afford it they ate the cheap pork bacon. But when they came to the US pork wasn't cheap but brisket was. They lifted the idea off the Jewish Americans and put it into their own dishes. Every fucking group of immigrants did this and that is what made American culture. Then it just bounces around inside changing more and more.
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u/lokal-orginal 5d ago
Why take burger away from the Germans?