• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wasn’t the hamburger invented in the US? There they had Frikadellen, which are arguably much better.

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      2 months ago

      As far as the story goes, the meat-in-a-bun concept was taken by sailors from Hamburg to the USA, where it was tweaked for local preferences and then called a hamburger. So the Germans invented it, USA marketed it.