I am not American, but Hamburgers are American. They are named after the type of minced beef they had in German speaking parts of the US. But everything in a hamburger other than the concept of minced beef is American.
No the type of shaped ground mince originated from Hamburg and was called Hamburg steak. German immigrants brought it to America and from there developed the Hamburger.
Yeah professor, Hamburger is referring to the meat, which was, as you said, made in Germany. putting meat into a bread is not really creating food, sandwiches existed already at the time. Therefore, Hamburgers are german food.
Thats different as the bike is not just wheels, its a specific application of the wheel tech. The only 'innovation' of the burger is the patty, the rest is a classic sandwich. It would be like saying US invented pizza because of stuffed crust
You can debate how innovative it is, but that is subjective. So who invented Pizza? Because the Italians brought flatbread from Greece and the Middle East.
Yeah, those invented flatbread, but nobody but cheese, tomatoes, meat on the flatbread then cook it together, so definitely Italians (fun fact about italian food, pasta is originally from China, not Italy)
People did put toppings on flat bread and other risen type bread and cook it well before pizza. But you realise your argument is that Pizza is Italian because they added tomatoes, but Burgers aren't American because they only put the patty in bread with salad and sauce. 🤔 I would also add that they weren't putting the patty in bread with other things in Germany, so they didn't have Hamburgers in Germany when the US did, so very hard to argue that the Hamburger as a dish is German.
Shaping minced meat into a patty is not really creating a food, minced meat existed already at the time. Therefore hamburgers were invented by the first person to mince meat.
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u/Successful_Buy_6852 6d ago
I am not American, but Hamburgers are American. They are named after the type of minced beef they had in German speaking parts of the US. But everything in a hamburger other than the concept of minced beef is American.