• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    12 days 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.

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      12 days ago

      So they

      1. Applied previous knowledge
      2. Created something observed to be new
      3. 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?

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      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.