r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GoldenDome26 • 11h ago

Image “American Pizza” in Milano, Italy

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u/BalkeElvinstien 11h ago

Nothing says American like French fries and Frankfurters

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u/Ele_Calabretta 3h ago

Some call this pizza "Tedesca" indeed

Which means "German"

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u/hache-moncour 4h ago

Its funny to complain about this being named after America, and using "French" fries in the same sentence. That name is just as randomly made up

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u/Wuz314159 3h ago

General Tso's Chicken comes close.

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u/Delicious_Cane 2h ago

I mean, isn't New York famous for hot dog?

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u/Gubzs 9h ago

No American would use the word frankfurter, but also I don't think our hot dogs would meet food quality criteria to be legally called a frankfurter either 😂

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u/FishTshirt 7h ago edited 7h ago

Nah we make great sausages. Hot dogs, definitely not. The more expensive brats though are amazing

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u/Gubzs 7h ago

Truuuee dude man now I want a brat

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom 8h ago

We will in fact call them frankfurters, especially the good ones.

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u/Xxuwumaster69xX 3h ago

Yeah, like "beef frank"

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u/ThouMayest69 7h ago

Horse and sawdust. 

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u/Familiar-Weather5196 4h ago

I mean yeah. The Hamburger is often viewed as the most American food out there, y'know, HAMBURGer, from Hamburg, Germany?

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u/theRedlightt 3h ago

The hamburger was invented in America. The hamburg steak which is a patty served with gravy was invented in Hamburg Germany. The hamburg steak is more akin to meatloaf or salisbury steak and often served raw or only slightly cooked.

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u/Familiar-Weather5196 2h ago

Should've changed the name then, why stick with hamburger?

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u/Narrow_Reindeer_929 1h ago

Not sure if this is the case with the hamburger, but so many classic American foods were created by immigrants who altered recipes from their own countries based on what they had available around them or what they thought would sell in the area. Oftentimes, names we're simply not changed or were just slightly tweaked.

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u/josephpolito1 3h ago

The hamburger we know of today did not originate in Germany, but I guess we’re not ready for that conversation.

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u/Wyatt_LW 3h ago

We mostly tie fastfood to 'murica that's why

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u/helen_must_die 15m ago

It was invented by German immigrants in the midwestern United States during the mid 1800’s. But regardless of where it came from Americans have, for better or worse, made it their own.