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The hamburger, from the city of Hamburg.
And German chocolate cake from Deutschschokoladenkuchen
Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can't remember which) was named "German" and I think the original name was "German's chocolate cake"
It's also just a super German state from an immigration perspective. At the time, the Mexicans were very upset by all of the Europeans jumping the borders and taking work they didn't particularly want anyway.
A lot of folks don't realize that. We have cities like Fredericksburg and New Braunfels and events like Wurstfest and water parks like Schlitterbahn. We have Shiner Bock and Ziegenbock beer.
There's a lot of German heritage running around here.
Pretty heavily found in parts of Michigan and Ohio, too.
German-American culture was heavily downplayed, in the 20th century... for some reason.
Honestly it'd taken a huge hit before either war. New York City's wealthy German families had an annual cruise together. One year, the boat sank.
This sounds like a Darwin Award:
The disastrous fire was fueled by the straw, oily rags, and lamp oil strewn around the room.: 98–102 The first notice of a fire was at 10 a.m.; eyewitnesses claimed the initial blaze began in various locations, including a paint locker filled with flammable liquids and a cabin filled with gasoline.
And schadenfreude: the joy that comes from others suffering!
Wasn’t the hamburger invented in the US? There they had Frikadellen, which are arguably much better.
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.
When you go back further it was the romans that brought that concept to Germany. Romans invented it, Germany tweaked it, and USA went further with it.
So they
- Applied previous knowledge
- Created something observed to be new
- Named it
And that doesn't count? What's the definition of inventing something? If I create a new flavor of bread, does it not count because flour was already invented?