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American cheese (lemmy.world)

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The story I heard was that it came to America with Russian Jewish immigrants who took transatlantic ocean liners from Hamburg, which is where it got its name from. (The Jewish origins are important as apparently the beef patty we know originated as a way of prepreparing kosher meals for travelling through areas where options were unknown.)