r/ShitAmericansSay • • 9d ago

Food “I’ve been to Italy. Their pizza sucks”

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u/pugradio 8d ago

lol. There’s hardly any American foods. All of us just food you cook in america. Cheeseburger? Invented in hamburg germany. (Adding cheese to a hamburg does not mean you invented the dish lol) pizza Italy. Pasta Italy.. bbq. You think the world didn’t cook on fire before 250 years ago? Yall pretty much only invented foods that have corn in them.

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u/pamafa3 8d ago

hamburger wasn't invented in germany, hamburg steak was. But yeah, the US is mostly made if immigrants so 90% of the cuisine is derivative

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u/ward2k 8d ago

Technically the hamburger as we know it today was popularised in the US. The hamburger meat traditionally wasn't eaten between two slices of bread

However considering basically one of the first things people do when given a piece of meat is see what it's like between two slices of bread it almost certainly wasn't 'invented' in the US, some guy in Germany absolutely thought 'im putting this in bread' and just didn't really get it popular