Hawaiian pizza was not invented in Hawaii, but Canada.
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AdmiralShat@programming.dev 6 months agoHamburgers are also American despite being named after a place in Germany
idunnololz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
poppy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Also Turkey (the bird) has to be the most hilariously named bird. Different languages attribute the bird to a different location.
slate.com/…/turkey-in-turkish-and-other-geographi…
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But English, Turkish, Hindi, and French aren’t the only languages with geographical confusion over the origin of this gobbling bird. Irish and Welsh call it after Turkey, but that’s probably just borrowing via English. Armenian, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, and Russian also refer to it as some sort of Indian bird, while Dutch, Indonesian, Icelandic, and Lithuanian get slightly more specific with their inaccurate Indian geographical references and call it a bird of Calicut. Khmer and Scottish Gaelic, on the other hand, call it a French chicken, Malay calls it a Dutch chicken, and various dialects of Arabic refer to it as a Roman, Greek, or Ethiopian chicken. The most sensible of the geographically confused names are the languages that name it after Peru, including Croatian, Hawaiian, and Portuguese. I mean, at least Peru is on the right continental landmass, even if it’s home to the Incas while it was the Aztecs who domesticated the turkey.
Fun!
UmeU@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nobody wants to take responsibility for this bird
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I don’t blame them
washingtonpost.com/…/minnesota-wild-turkey-attack…
cbsnews.com/…/turkeys-terrorizing-residents-north…
One year later in pittsburgh
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The explanation ive heard as to why its called a turkey in English is cause the Turks took a liking to it early on and the association just kinda stuck.
squid_slime@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Little known fact, hamburgers are served with a slice of ham 🙂
explodicle@local106.com 6 months ago
Mmmmm, steamed hams!
CbtB@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
casmael@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Steamed clams?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They started life as the hamburg steak, which was brought to the US by Germans.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
So basically Americans or even German American immigrants went “this would be better as a sandwhich” and it stuck.
casmael@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Disappointed that it’s not a type of burger made of ham tbh
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cheeseburgers are named after the German city of Cheeseburg.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh? I thought it was from Cheesebaden.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Big Macs are named after Bernie “Big” Mac