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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite is Hamburger and French Fries. Story is amazing.

At the Worlds Fair a guy basically invented the hamburger. He used a new invention actually made in Germany to grind meat. He then put it in a patty, BBQ it and put it between two slices of bread. It is American buy Hamburg comes from the German Grinding machine.

Now before fair he realizes he needed a side dish. He called a friend in Texas and he heard of a way to slice potato’s in strips and fry them. His friend lived in Paris Texas. The reporting covering event in his handwritten note wrote the Sliced Fried  potato recipe cane from France (he thought Paris France not Paris Texas) and the reporter called then French Fried potatoes hence French Fries.

How names happen is fascinating.

Ironically the one guy basically invented the Hamburger AND French Fries but never patented it or opened a restaurant. He could have made a fortune. [/quote]

Ok I don't know how the hamburger was invented but am now extremely suspicious this story since that's obviously not how "French fries" came to be. No one know who invented them but the French and the Belgians argue over where they originated. The are basically the national food of Belgium, after waffles. And the British call them "chips". Americans only call them French fries because we had to Americanize "frites". They were absolutely not invented by some guy in Paris, Texas.

I kind of like the idea that this is how a hamburger was invented, but Europeans have been grinding up meet and cooking it for a long time so I"m also guessing no.[/quote]

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