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[–] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Hamburgers, meatloaf, gumbo, and all sorts of southern food is American.

*Edit. Some of you think hamburgers weren't an American creation. Y'all are incorrect. The humburg meat was never put between bread. The sandwich hamburger is a US creation.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I have to think of a lot of fish dishes too. Since we only have them here. I don't think Walleye is from anywhere else. Maybe I'm wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Walleye isn't a preparation, it's an animal.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Literary all of those dishes have origins outside of the US lol

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    So does all human society, this is a stupid argument.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I find it fascinating that almost half of the world has their own dumpling (ie. a small ball of a cheap source of protein and fat held together by a wrapping of flour dough; a peasant dish that's most often boiled).

    I bet if you they would all dispute the origin of that food item.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    My point is that US people tend to claim ownership to a lot of things that were not invented there. I'm all for sharing culture and food and transforming them to something new, but don't claim they are your invention.

    Like as american as apple pie is an expression for a dish from Germany and the Netherlands.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Nah, I as an naturalized American citizen I do not want stuff I create to be called "Chinese", its xenophobic. I mean, you can say "Chinese-American" to refer to me but not "Chinese". Cuz why is a white US Citizen creating stuff labeled as "American" while stuff I make is not "American"? Double standards.

    If I come up with a new food receipe, its American food. If I make a painting, that's made by an American artist. If I publish a book, that's written by an American writer. Don't fucking try to "other" me.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Meanwhile, German Chocolate Cake has nothing to do with Germany!

    It was created by a guy with the last name of German...

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The chocolate was made by a man named Samuel German in the 1850s, but recipe for the cake that uses the chocolate was made by a Mrs. George Clay, who sent her recipe into the Dallas Morning News in 1957.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Dude, Hamburgers are literally named after the non-US city they originally came from...
    But I have to admit that the refinement to its delicious present day form is an American achievement!

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Na, buddy. You're wrong. The Hamburg thing is just about a mashed up piece of meat. Not the hamburger. Putting the meat in the bun to make a sandwich is 100% US like 125 years ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    That's quite disputed.
    One of the more likely theories states that the bun idea together with the ground meat steak originated in Hamburg, where it was a variant of the common "Rundstück warm", which has been around since 200 years ago or so.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    It's less disputed than most food origins. I looked up your rundstuck warm food. Dunno why you're trying to make that argument, because because that sure looks nothing like a hamburger, nor does it get eaten like one. That it didn't use ground beef aside, it being covered in gravy is a dead giveaway.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    The original hamburger was more like a meatloaf. It was a hamburg steak, meant to be eaten with a fork and knife just like a modern meatloaf. The modern hamburger is 100% an American invention, because America was the place that first turned it into a sandwich.

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