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They lied to us (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (4 children)

French Fries are from Belgium English muffins are invented in the USA Singaporean Noodles are invented in Hong Kong

Wuhan virus? Most likely from Wuhan.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The "french" in French fries refers to the style of cut that the potatoes are in. Hence why you just call curly fries, curly fries, and not curly French fries.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It what made freedom fries doubly absurd. Not even close to the freedom cut.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I like my fries uncircumcised

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

German chocolate cake is not German. It was originally called German's chocolate cake, as it was invented by a person with the last name German.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention Chicken Tikka Masala.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What part is a lie though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I assume it has to do with the part that says that its place of origin is Great Britain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's true though. In India it's butter chicken, and they made a slightly different version of it in the UK called chicken Tikka Masada, and they make a butter chicken there which is a sweet version of the OG butter chicken.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not a lie. I think in India it's weird because tikka already implies chicken. Like saying "beef hamburger" sounds a bit weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Kinda like “chai tea” is often said in English too!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Hamburgers are also American despite being named after a place in Germany

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They started life as the hamburg steak, which was brought to the US by Germans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

So basically Americans or even German American immigrants went "this would be better as a sandwhich" and it stuck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Hawaiian pizza was not invented in Hawaii, but Canada.

Also Turkey (the bird) has to be the most hilariously named bird. Different languages attribute the bird to a different location.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Also Turkey (the bird) has to be the most hilariously named bird. Different languages attribute the bird to a different location.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/11/turkey-in-turkish-and-other-geographically-implausible-names-for-this-bird.html

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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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 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.