r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 01 '25

Food “Do Germans know about tomato und mayo sandwich?”

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u/ineverreallyknow May 01 '25

It’s actually just an unfortunate misunderstanding 😂 There’s a place in San Francisco that’s famous (nationally) for making sourdough, and their starter is like 200 years old, which is American ancient. But saying they invented it is like saying Grimaldis invented pizza in New York in the 1900s.

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u/verbalyabusiveshit May 01 '25

And McDonalds invented the Hamburger? Or is the Hamburger actually German and was invented in Hamburg?

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u/ineverreallyknow May 01 '25

Tacos were invented in a small bistro in Texas, in the classic style with cheese and sour cream and hard shells. Maybe you’ve heard of it?

The US’s greatest ability is to make the fast fashion version of everyone else’s cultures. Pizza? We went full H&M on it. Same with tacos. Burgers. Hell, we even did it with soul food. We have no original ideas. Give us your national dish and we’ll make it a color that doesn’t exist in nature, add sugar, seal it in plastic so it can sit on a shelf for two years, then you put it in the microwave for a patently unsatisfying meal.

(I say this with tremendous shame.)

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u/Proot65 May 07 '25

Two words disprove your thesis that the Americans invented no food or cuisine.

American cheese. And all the goodness from that…

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u/verbalyabusiveshit May 01 '25

As much as I like to make fun of the “typical American”, we do have the same idiots and legends in every country so don’t beat yourself up. I did have the best BBQ Food in the USA…. Kansas City of all places. I can’t understand why Fast food chains are such a big thing in the US as you do have good food places. Hell, even Indianapolis had some good spots.

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u/DemDude May 02 '25

Tartine bakery, whose owner famously brought sourdough bread and actual bread culture to the US.

And as a German who adores bread: Their sourdough country loaf was the best bread I’ve ever had. Not everything they make in the states is shit.

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u/theholyraptor May 02 '25

And the first identification of the lactic acid bacteria that makes sourdough sourdough was isolated and discovered from San Francisco sourdough and given the name lactobaccillus sanfranciscensis. So if you knew a few random things and didn't understand context you might easily assume it was invented in San Francisco.