They lied to us

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.
- Hamburgers are also American despite being named after a place in Germany
  
  Cheeseburgers are named after the German city of Cheeseburg.
  
  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.
  
  Little known fact, hamburgers are served with a slice of ham 🙂
  
  Disappointed that it’s not a type of burger made of ham tbh
  
  They started life as the hamburg steak, which was brought to the US by Germans.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  It what made freedom fries doubly absurd. Not even close to the freedom cut.
- Not to mention Chicken Tikka Masala.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala
  
  What part is a lie though?

Hawaiian pizza is from Canada.
- By a greek in Canada inspired by chinese dishes. Truly mr worldwide food.
- @OutlierBlue @sjmarf its inventor was also of Greek descent
- I knew I hated them for a reason

German Chocolate Cake is from Pennsylvania or New York. It's definitely American. The guy's last name was German.
- Considering the Amish proficiency for baked goods, I'd imagine it's from Pennsylvania, and actually German.
  But just like whoopie pies it's an American invention.
  
  No literally it was the brand name of the chocolate which was sold by a guy named German. Nothing to do with the country at all
  
  It was actually Texas.
- My entire life has been a lie

General Tso never even tried his sauce.
- General Tso died in 1885, yet General Tso's Chicken is invented around 1970. They are almost 100 years apart.
- IIRC the sauce was invented in San Francisco, as were fortune cookies.
  
  Except it's more generally accepted that it's from New York, and not San Fran.
  Where did you ever find information tracing it to San fransisco?

Belgium and Northern France have Filet Américain (American Filet). So an American dish right? Well no, it's raw ground beef, basically the last thing most Americans will ever willingly eat. Here it's basically the default sandwich topping.
- how does one safely prepare raw ground beef?
  
  By grinding it fresh under controlled conditions
  Though according to experts, there's still a health risk, like raw egg.
  
  The same way you safely prepare steak tartare?
  
  italians and other europoors eat completely raw or undercooked meats every now and then, including raw chicken and raw pork.
  plenty of european cultural dishes would be highly illegal to serve here in the US of A (and i am glad for that)
- actually...
  
  It's crazy to me that they felt the need to include safety instructions lol. Handmade Filet Américain for sure I'd eat same-day or at most next day, but the store-bought variety uses preservatives and can last for 3 days in the fridge no problem.
  Americans be acting like beef is like fugu or something, but if fresh raw beef gives you E. Coli you need to be suing people! My understanding is this pathological phobia of raw meat goes back to the mid-20th century where long supply chains and untrustworthy cold chains led to the advice that all meat had to be done well, but that's outdated advice that would not develop nowadays. Red meat just can't go bad that fast at 4°C, so if the supplier is trusrworthy there's no issue.
  Brits have kind of the same thing with electrical plugs in bathrooms, they're scared to death of them and you can't convince them it's safe and that the rest of the world does it just fine. Interesting how there are these localized "fear islands" around certain topics that people take for granted.
- Guess what americans call fries? :)
  
  Freedom fries
  
  I mean, they're close enough to French. As a Belgian, it pains me to admit that they probably originated in Paris anyway, though we perfected the recipe (and they're called French fries in American English for a different reason).
  
  Pomme frites
- In Japan they don't have cormeal as part of the diet, so a corn dog would've been a confusing name. They ended up calling it an American dog.

Yea, Singapore noodles are from Hong Kong and Tikka Masala is from the UK of all places.
- My favourite weird food thing is that Japanese curry is a reinterpretation of UK curry which is in turn a reinterpretation of Indian curries.
  I love the circuitous route it took to hop north east a ways, and how distinct it is due to this.
  
  It's also the absolute fucking best
- I don't like to get entangled with some food debate but I thought the common knowledge was that tikka masala is from Punjab. The restaurant owner who claimed to have 'invented' tikka masala using canned soup confessed they had spun up a story to entertain journalists.
  
  Could entirely be. I just remember seeing the UK as a country of origin when looking for a slow cooking Tikka masala recipe and being disgusted with myself for enjoying English cuisine. Like there was no warning, no beans involved or anything.

Taiwan has created so many incredible foods and drinks I gotta say.

"Damn mongorians."
- Keep ruining the shitty wok

Im living in Germany. We say "Wiener Würstchen" to some sausages. Wien = Vienna In Vienna/Austria they say "Frankfurter" to the same sausages. Frankfurt is a City in Germany.

They played us for absolute fools
- for absolute foods

Also:
- Wtf, it's not from Gingeria?
  
  Is that in Ireland?

What? Next thing you're gonna tell me is that sex on the beach doesn't involve any sand!

They just call it beef there. Kind of like how the French call toasted bread "le pain internationale" and French toast is just toast.
- French toast is “pain d’ici”
  
  That took me a second to click in for some reason lol.
- Is this a Quebec thing ? I have never ever heard anyone say "le pain international" in my entire life as a French man, sacre blue !
  Toast bread = pain de mie
  French toast = pain perdu
  
  It was a joke.
  I am actually half French Canadian but my dad had us raised English only, and now I'm trying to relearn it.
  It sucked going to my grandfather's funeral and the extended family thought I was my cousin's friend because I didn't speak French.