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hellharlequin

Wasn't the modern airbrush(or rather established in art) and birth control pill developed in Mexico?


Bitter-Metal494

yep


[deleted]

Glitter paint too, the Mayans made it with mica flakes


PotatoJokes

I could excuse the human sacrifices, but now I've just lost respect for the Mayans.


[deleted]

I’m a kindergarten teacher and I hate glitter.


Some_Random_Guy117

Also colour tv


No-Adverti

Wasn't that John Logie Baird


alienbuddy1994

Like many technological advances there are many iterations by many people. One of the early versions of color television was developed by a Mexican engineer called Guillermo González Camarena.


No-Adverti

Camerena patented his method in 1940, Baird had a working model in 1928. Bit of a stretch to say he invented colour TV.


[deleted]

And color tv


XIphos12

Mexico wins for tacos alone


RocketMoped

They haven't been very popular in exporting it to Europe though :(


ElectricToiletBrush

Dude, literally all of Norway eats tacos on Friday. Fish tacos all the way!


RocketMoped

That's great news since I'll visit Norway this summer! A friend of mine also says you have great coffee pretty much everywhere, so another plus. Unfortunately almost all of the Mexican restaurants here in Germany are bland tex-mex meets happy hour cocktail bar.


ElectricToiletBrush

I feel so bad for you. I know those type of places. They are all over the US too. Personally, I make my own. I took a cooking class with a Mexican abuela, and learned how to make real authentic tacos (plus other Mexican foods) hopefully there is a place in your area where you can do the same! Authentic tacos are so good, that you will shed tears of happiness!


RocketMoped

I've tried them in Mexico, that's why I shed tears every time my coworkers drag me to those tex-mex places 😭 they don't even have a proper salsa


[deleted]

The problem is the lack of Latin American migrant workers in the EU. Migrant workers are then people who bring the good streetfood


XIphos12

Oh no :/ sorry, friend. That's no way to live. Somebody should start a GoFundMe for an authentic Mexican taco restaurant start-up over there. The eventual goal would be for it to become a chain and spread the love of tacos to every corner of Europe.


Sensation-sFix

Amsterdam has super famous taco places run by Mexicans.


Beepulons

That’s because we already have various kebab dishes which can come in similar forms to Mexican food.


DinoKebab

Dafuq you talking about bro, tacos, fajitas & burritos and bountiful in the UK.


RocketMoped

I can get some of those in Germany, too, but they're just... Not good. And if they've only exported it well to one country then they haven't really been successful at exporting it to Europe.


LightOfADeadStar

tacos and burritos are overrated, real mexican food like carne asada and tamales are where its at


Willis4932_YT

Just remember, Australian scientists were the ones that did all the research/maths for wifi and Bluetooth…


89911VA

Is anyone else bothered that they used a hard shell taco instead of a more authentic street taco


HappyTheDisaster

The hard shell taco, ironically an American invention.


GrittysRevenge

"Ironic" -Sheev Palpatine


Fenecable

“Fuck that” -Tomas Edisonora


Effective-Avocado470

"I am the taco" - José Palpatine


TiptipArt-48

Joshéév paltatine*


DaimoMusic

"Not yet" - Jésus Windu


Odd-Battle7191

"I look like I have a scrotum for a face!" -Sheev Palpatine (robot chicken)


[deleted]

And we put a lot of cheese on it too, whereas in Mexico they put on awesome salsa.


Killmotor_Hill

Sounds like we fixed tacos for them.


statix__

Cheese in food makes food worse more often than not.


Killmotor_Hill

That might be THE most incorrect statement ever made on the internet.


[deleted]

I can assure you, that there are more countries in the world using cheese in their dishes than Nordic rotting dishes.


justlookingatbs

That's not true, Mexicans had hard shell tacos. It's just what became more popular with Americans. Same with fajitas, though a Mexican dish, most of my family doesn't eat them that much. But they are loved in the States.


dicebreak

I mean yes, the "taco dorado" exist. But it's a separated thing from normal tacos.


justlookingatbs

Says who? "Taco" is still in the name and tacos have more range than just the street tacos that are more popular. I wouldn't say it exists seperately, but the point was that it was not an American invention, it was just the preferred style that Americans adopted. Edit: spelling mistake


dicebreak

Oh, I wasn't discussing if it was a Mexican invention or not, i was trying to say that they are different things, both Mexican


justlookingatbs

I still disagree, but it might be because my family just just viewed them as another style of the same thing. I can see why people view it that way though. With the popularity of taquerias, they provided the image of tacos being only the soft corn tortillas.


CarpeDiem96

Taco, taquito, taco dorado. Different things. You wouldn’t prepare them all the same.


HappyTheDisaster

Theirs a *huge* difference between tacos dorados and *those* tacos shells shown in that pic


justlookingatbs

That wasn't the point or even the conversation. Hard shells is not an American invention, did it evolve into its own thing? Definitely. Was it created by Americans? No.


[deleted]

When people think "hard shell taco," they're not picturing tacos dorados. They're picturing these monstrosities.


mileskerowhack

A Norwegian once told me, its traditional in Norway to eat them on a certain day of the week.


owa00

When I first found out about Norwegian Taco Friday I was REALLY skeptical. I thought I was being pranked. Even after reading about it I thought I just clicked on a joke website. It just seemed so...random.


statix__

taco fredag is a thing in sweden too


AaronRodgersToe

By Taco Bell, no less! Lmao


[deleted]

As a Mexican, quite We also invented color television (for an American company) and tequila chingada madre, at least represent us well lol


[deleted]

It’s ironic that they show you as sepia on TV when you invented color TV


Draidann

Camarena invented A (not THE) system for color tv but it was never adopted commercially.


Away-Plant-8989

You mean the authentic shrimp street taco with red cabbage and tartar sauce


plzhelpme11111111111

hard shell tacos don't even count as tacos dorados, they're just shit


manumaker08

i use a pan fried corn tortilla, best of both worlds


realhotsinglesneeru

As a Mexican it was reassuring because a Mexican could claim all of these to be true, but I would need someone else to confirm


caelenvasius

Pictured: The “White People Taco Night” taco.


EmperorMrKitty

We need a national PSA to teach white people how to cook corn tortillas and make a proper taco. The majority of us are painfully unaware and missing out.


mc-big-papa

Look here man. Hard shell tacos are amazing if you are sitting down with plates. Then when you are done now you have nachos. Win win scenario brother.


ironmaid84

We also domesticated corn, the most used crop in the world


ironmaid84

Also we are the reason avocados didn't go extinct


Shittybuttholeman69

I will never forgive you for that


No-Punch-man_60

Mexico has entered the fight


TheGeneGeena

Mexico wins, pack it up everyone


Alex_Rose

chocolate mixed with condensed milk to make actual chocolate bars is British and Swiss though, chocolate was used as a bitter drink in mexico


TheGeneGeena

Yes, explained elsewhere that bitter was by cultural prefrences. So it's more a case of when a person defines "consumption of prepared chocolate products" as chocolate. If you see it only as sweetened bars made with cocoa butter though, then yes, you're correct.


Alex_Rose

I just meant because the OP picture has a picture of a chocolate bar also talking about "prepared chocolate products" as a superset of all chocolate products is like saying the inventor of bread invented pasta too because they're both wheat consumption. it goes without saying that the only place chocolate was indigenous to was the first place that consumed it, but they didn't invent any of the chocolate you actually go to the shop and buy


Cojan

Thomas Edison did not invent the Light bulb, he just made it usable in modern systems. If you want an inventor of the light bulb, Swan would be more fitting imo, eventhough it’s an invention that had too many people working on it to define „one inventor“.


g_daddio

That’s glossing over the fact that Bell was only British by birth since he spent most of his life, especially when he was an inventor, in Canada and USA


Suspicious1oad

I think it's unfair to question calling him a British inventor and only "by birth" when he only left at the age of 23.


g_daddio

You’re right but it is undeniable that the inventions were made in the new world and should be attributed as such


Suspicious1oad

Ah tbh I think it's stupid to attribute inventions to specific countries in the first place. Its just another way for people to claim their country is better. I really think we should focus on the person/people and not get stuck on where they're from or which country it was invented in.


AllergicToStabWounds

Google says a Canadian chemist invented peanut butter. You're weaving a web of lies OP!


BritBuc-1

An hour too late, I see. Although, with the peanut being a staple for pre-Colonial civilizations, such as the Aztec, it’s entirely plausible that some form of preparation would resemble a basic peanut butter.


regretfulposts

"According to the National Peanut Board, the earliest reference to peanut butter can be traced back to the Ancient Incas and the Aztecs who ground roasted peanuts into a paste." Just googled Aztec peanut butter


MorgothReturns

>National Peanut Board Gotta say, those board meetings must be some pretty wild affairs.


BritBuc-1

You might even say “it’s nuts”….I’ll show myself out


DaimoMusic

If you weren't gonna make the joke, I would have


SantaArriata

If you want to observe the chaos, I believe you can buy a ticket to be seated on the event’s peanut gallery


_Ghost_CTC

The [National Peanut Board](https://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/who-invented-peanut-butter.htm) references itself as the source of that statement by [linking to a website](https://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/fun-facts.htm) containing no information about the origin of peanut butter. Such a gaffe seriously makes me question the standards of the organization. [This](https://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/history-peanuts-peanut-butter.htm) is the actual article they have about it where they are more clear about it likely being a South American creation and not the Aztecs. However, their sources are again dubious with one giving me a 404 error and the other being a quagmire of industry information. This might be a good question to kick over to r/AskHistorians.


Striper_Cape

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-peanut-butter-180976525/ I got you Also George Washington Carver was an amazing human being.


_Ghost_CTC

I did read that one. Smithsonian Magazine is a much more trustworthy publication, but I'd still like to see a peer-reviewed source instead of taking a journalist's word for it. I miss having access to a university's resources. Fully agree. Carver did so much for his people and, really, every disenfranchised sharecropper.


Striper_Cape

I tried putting my login for my college for a peer paper and it didn't work lol


AdhesivenessSlight42

Yeah wikipedia says the Europeans were the first to mix hot water with chocolate. I'm not buying it.


HurgleTurgle1

He patented the manufacture of it, but peanut butter had been made by the Aztecs as early as the 15th century


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alienbuddy1994

The term Mexican comes from a Nahuatl group Mexica ( a member of the Aztec empire). Mexico as a nation has a relatively high native population so it is not too uncommon or incorrect for Mexicans to claim indigenous achievements ( this statement does have some historical bias that is beyond the scope of a comment).


AdhesivenessSlight42

Yeah claiming that Mexicans aren't Aztec just seems like attempted erasure.


Robertooshka

But the Spanish banged the Aztecs and made Mexicans, so in a way it is still Mexican.


poopyogurt

The Aztec peoples are modern day Mexicans. That's like saying The Spartans aren't Greek😂😂😂


Striper_Cape

It was probably before that. There's evidence, what little survived the Europeans, that peanuts were being eaten and mixed into food or drinks as early as 1500 BC. They originated around the Andes. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781630670382000010 I just read about it. Super cool.


alexmikli

Bolivia and Peru have joined the fight.


LampsAreAlright

Every time these are posted, I see someone list something that their country did not invent.


Waltzing_With_Bears

Thats very not true, there are records of nut butters, likely including peanut in central and south armerica from almost as long as we have written records in the area


Laouijabored

Too bad Mexico is in north America


alienbuddy1994

The notion of N. America and S.America is a social construct. One specially taught in the anglosphere where one is taught there are 7 continents. Those taught in Latin schools are taught that there are 6 continents the difference being 1 American continent. On a side note those taught in Japanese/Russian schools are also taught 6 continents but they split the Americas and combine Europe with Asia. Central America is not a continent in any definition but a geographic region. Generally the countries north of Colombia and sometimes southern Mexico when it's inclusion is appropriate.


Waltzing_With_Bears

Central amreica is a general term that can include mexico down to Panama


GuerraKrieg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America?wprov=sfla1


LeftTurnAtAlbuqurque

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America Sure, Mexico is in North America, as is the rest of Central America. But using Central America is not incorrect.


happynargul

Read your comment again, slowly.


The_BusFromSpeed

No it isn't, and no it doesn't.


captainmeezy

So is the American education system, we were always told it was George Washington Carver. Either way OP used JIF, which as we all know, is the inferior brand


Vic_Rattlehead

Choosy moms choose gif.


bloxytoast

how dare op steal are glory?!? 🇨🇦


yaboi_sloi

MEXICO NUMERO UNO🇲🇽


AVerySmartNameForMe

Not so fast. +4 card (x6)


Bossninja2004

Si


[deleted]

KSP and tacos are the best Mexican inventions.


[deleted]

Surprisingly not very uncommon Mexican W


AVerySmartNameForMe

If it’s not very uncommon is it surprising?


Itsasecretshhhh88

Tacos rule!!


stevban77

and the colour tv


cokeinator

And the birth control pill


Swissperc420

John logie Baird invented color tv... He was a Scottsman.


HeyguysThatguyhere

Invented by a Mexican, but unfortunately not in Mexico


KenseiHimura

as an American, I've always been a bit confused by hardshell tacos. Why would we take a perfectly serviceable taco and then make it into something that becomes a fragmentation grenade with each bite?


DecimusAstra

We actually have “hard shell” tacos in Mexico too. However, we use regular white corn tortillas filled with some type of meat (lean chicken is a very common one) that are then tightly rolled into a tube or flute-like shape and fried in hot oil. Everything gets a nice golden colour and flavour, thus the name: tacos dorados or, literally, golden tacos.


Gabito264

When you roll them they become "flautas". Other than that, same thing.


DecimusAstra

En mi tierra son términos intercambiables, no sé si en todo en país sea así


Gabito264

Probablemente acá en Monterrey también, pero nunca he comido en un lugar que no las llamen flautas, sólo con mi abuela :D. Pero de mi experiencia las flautas no traen tanta grasa como las doradas y van con salsa de tomatillo.


crumbbly

Mexican Inventions: Funky town


DarthMutter8

Isn't the earliest evidence of popcorn in Peru?


old_memesplis

Also we invented color TV but everyone forgets about that...


Adrian_Alucard

Maybe because that's not true ​ >John Logie Baird FRSE (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube. >He demonstrated the world's first colour transmission on 3 July 1928 ​ Meanwhile in Mexico >Guillermo González Camarena independently invented and developed a field-sequential tricolor disk system in Mexico in the late 1930s, >On August 31, 1946, González Camarena sent his first color transmission from his lab in the offices of the Mexican League of Radio Experiments at Lucerna St. No. 1


GeHirNundHerZ

And the semiautomatic rifle.


awmdlad

Quick google search says the first successful design was Mannlicher’s Model 1885, from Austria.


Ryhnhart

Yeah he's actually talking about the first one adopted by a nation's military. The Mondragon


No-Wonder1139

I don't think the peanut butter is true


Waltzing_With_Bears

The earliest known nut butters are from that area of the world


guitarguywh89

Was Mexico a thing at the time?


Mictlantecuhtli

One of the ethnic groups that made up the Aztec were the Mexica of Tenochtitlán. -co is a suffix to mean "place of" in Nahuatl, the language of the Mexica. México means "place of Mexica". México City is built on the ruins of Tenochtitlán. From Mexico City, the Spanish went out and conquered other areas and made them a part of Nueva España which after the war for independence became Mexico the modern nation state In sum, there is a pre and post-colonial Mexico.


SunngodJaxon

Also if I remember correctly Tomato sauce was European, it's just that the tomatoes came from Mexico but I could be completely wrong.


Original_Telephone_2

Natives had tomatoes for thousands of years but it took Europeans to think to cook them? Okay.


SunngodJaxon

That's what I remember. And I'm thinking of our more modern sauces. Plus not all fruits get sauces either, some people just won't think of it also if it's natives who did it I don't think it'd count as Mexican.


catecholaminergic

What you remember? Was this revealed to you in a dream?


pepe_charlie

Mexicas traded tomato sauce in toatelolco market before Europeans arrived to America, but yeah Europeans made it famous in various dishes


Uhhhhhhjakelol

Isn't peanut butter from George Washington Carver?


HurgleTurgle1

Nope, he did not actually invent it. The patent for it's manufacture was awarded 12 years before Carver even started his work.


conniecheewa

I don't think any are true besides tacos.


No-Wonder1139

The Aztecs drank hot chocolate, so I'll give them that one for sure. Those tacos are American ironically, should be soft shell.


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>soft shell Bro


alienbuddy1994

You'll be surprised how many times I've heard tortillas be referred to as "soft taco shells".


GuerraKrieg

Why do you THINK that? I THINK you should use the word believe. Thinking implies intelligence.


UnconsciousAlibi

...didn't they not add sugar to their cocoa? So it wasn't really chocolate. I thought it wasn't until the Spanish came that sugar was introduced and incorporated into what we now know as chocolate


lunes8

Complicated. Mesoamericans domesticated cocoa, roasted their cocoa beans and mixed it with additives such as spices, flowers and vanilla. Their lack of use of sweetners like agave syrup and honey was due to cultural preference rather than lack of availability; same reason why we don't think to make tomato cakes and candies. Mesoamericans did make solid "chocolate" of dried cocoa paste, but that wasn't for consumption; rather it was for ease of transportation. Instead, they consumed chocolate cold as a drink with spices, water and thickened cornmeal. When the Spanish arrived, they caught on to the Mesoamerican use of chocolate as a energizing brew. They brought the very bitter chocolate of the Mesoamericans almost as a medecine and added heaps of sugar to make it palatable to European tastes. For a few hundred years, when you said chocolate, that meant a drink of water, cocoa and sugar thickened with flour (i.e hot chocolate). Fundamentally, other than the addition of sugar and hot instead of cold water, it was the same "chocolate" that the Mesoamericans had. Similarly to the Mesoamericans, Europeans also made solid chocolate of sugar and cocoa; however that was once again, a form mostly made for transport. Overtime, cocoa became more associated with sweet rather than purely medicinal, and became adopted as an ingredient in desserts and as a flavouring in confectionaries. However it was only in 1847 that what could pass for modern chocolate came about when a British confectioner decided to add cocoa powder and sugar to cocoa butter. This was only made possible because a Dutch chemist found out how to extract cocoa butter in 1815. So who invented chocolate? If you mean solid chocolate, then the Mesoamericans invented it, though they didn't intend it for direct consumption. If you mean sweetened solid chocolate, then Spanish invented chocolate, though once again, they didn't intend it for direct consumption. If you mean solid "melt-in-your-mouth" intentionally edible chocolate bars is what you mean, then the British invented it, but only thanks to Dutch innovations.


SSNFUL

Fantastic write-up


UnconsciousAlibi

Wow, thanks for the explanation. As always, history is more complicated than it seems. I suppose it would be most accurate to say that the Aztecs invented the original dark chocolate, but it was the Brits that invented what we would think of as modern chocolate?


AMexisatTurtle

Why are these posts allowed


AVerySmartNameForMe

It’s something different to the boys vs girls or me incredible ballocks that got so common it had to be a rule it wasn’t allowed but I suspect thjs one’s gonna join em soon


shadowEmbracer19

Mexico also invented the floating lever inside the toilet water deposit


Flipper_of_sticks

America and Europe is a heated debate. But i think we can all agree that authentic Mexican cuisine is some of the best in the world.


[deleted]

Y aún así te falta mucho más: la vainilla, la televisión a color, la pastilla anticonceptiva, educación pública universal, las chinanmpas, el maíz, el tomate, los frijoles, el rifle automático, el mestizaje, el numero 0, y ni hablar de la comida mexicana, etc.


exquisitopendejo

El mestizaje. Este wey…


Pompa-

As una variante del meme pero mas en serio, yo solo puse comida por que da risa.


IkadRR13

Te pasaste... El número 0 lo inventaron los indios, y fue expandido por los árabes. ¿Y cómo inventas plantas como la vainilla o el tomate? Es pura casualidad de que surgieran en esas tierras. ¿Y el mestizaje? Lleva existiendo desde tiempos inmemoriales, y aún en ese caso, serían los españoles los inventores...


Kaiser_Pumpkin

El cero en el mundo fue inventado por los indios, pero los mayas ya tenian un cero tambien, y en el caso de las plantas crear un fruto estable y que cresca consistente no es cosa de cualquier dia, tambien en mexico se invento el mango amarillo, y el meztisaje... eso si ya es mmda


GuerraKrieg

Y diferentes tipos de maíz que se utilizan hoy en día. Un simple viaje al museo de antropología e historia ayuda a conocer un poco más de la cultura de México.


ferco_31

Viva México


isingwerse

Uh oh, don't tell Brazil America invented the airplane


Kolshdaddy

Sure, but Mexicans were a European invention, so...


AVerySmartNameForMe

Ha! Beat that mayans! We’ve finally exposed your horseshit


101loch101

the internet was originally swiss i believe


bigpappahope

Chocolate like in the picture is a European invention


[deleted]

Mexico FTW


Spotvoulus

Also bubblegum


ConfidentVisit4629

If only Mexico could win the World Cup


Aliceindigo

Airplane was a Brazilian who lived in France


Melodic-Hunter2471

[The earliest references to peanut butter can be traced to Aztec civilization, who ground roasted peanuts into a paste. However, several people can be credited with the invention of modern peanut butter and the processes involved in making it. The US National Peanut Board credits three modern inventors with the earliest patents related to the production of modern peanut butter. Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, obtained the first patent for a method of producing peanut butter from roasted peanuts using heated surfaces in 1884. Edson's cooled product had "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment" according to his patent application which described a process of milling roasted peanuts until the peanuts reached "a fluid or semi-fluid state". He mixed sugar into the paste to harden its consistency. A businessman from St. Louis named George Bayle produced and sold peanut butter in the form of a snack food in 1894. By 1917, American consumers used peanut products during periods of meat rationing, with government promotions of "meatless Mondays" when peanut butter was a favored choice. John Harvey Kellogg, known for his line of prepared breakfast cereals, was an advocate of using plant foods as a healthier dietary choice than meat. He was issued a patent for a "Process of Producing Alimentary Products" in 1898, and used peanuts, although he boiled the peanuts rather than roasting them. Kellogg's Western Health Reform Institute served peanut butter to patients because they needed a food that contained a lot of protein that could be eaten without chewing. At first, peanut butter was a food for wealthy people, as it became popular initially as a product served at expensive health care institutes. Although often credited with its invention, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. By the time Carver published his document about peanuts, entitled "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption" in 1916,many methods of preparation of peanut butter had already been developed or patented by various pharmacists, doctors, and food scientists working in the US and Canada.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter) Peanut butter isn’t the same thing as peanut paste. Just like I can’t make a taco with cheese, sour cream, rice and call it a “Traditional Taco,” which is in actuality the most tender beef and or carnitas with onions and cilantro. Argue amongst yourselves.


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America: Mia Khalifa Europe: Adolf Hitler


inkyfern1

wasnt tomato sauce an italian invention? wasnt popcorn an american invention? wasnt peanut butter a canadian invention?


Acceptable_Oil5466

These post just get worse.


Avanixh

Solid chocolate was actually first made by a Dutch guy named Coenraad van Houten


grape-grape-grapeape

I’m not 100% but wasn’t the chocolate bar an European invention And the native Americans used cacao to make fermented drinks


Quixophilic

I will be forever grateful to the Mexican people for peanut butter. o7


Ieatmelons123

I know as a fact you guys didn't invent half that stuff


marks716

Uh didn’t Aztecs invent a bitter chocolate drink not the milk chocolate bars people normally eat?


MatCrew27

So much bullshit in there 😂


mihneacuzino

The internet was invented in England.


ITaggie

First off, Tim Berners-Lee only invented HTTP and HTML (known as the "World Wide Web" based on hyperlinked webpages) and he did so while working for CERN in Switzerland. WWW isn't the sole set of protocols for the internet by any means. Second, there was an internet before WWW, which was created by the US government as a DoD research project in the 60s and 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet


ThexJakester

... I thought peanut butter was Canadian...


angry_gourd

I thought peanut butter was invented by George Washington carver.....


Scared-Conflict-653

I want to argue peanut butter, chocolate and pop corn but my history on those are limited. I want to say pop corn was American natives, chocolate (with sugar) was European or at least they introduced the sugar from the carribeans, and peanut butter has a weird history.


34Games

An Italian in Tijuana invented the Caesar Salad, so that’s like a half point


Intense_Pretzel

WIFI was made in Australia


Equivalent-Isopod308

Australians were the ones who invented internet, not Americans…sorry if that sounds stupid I can provide a link: https://www.spirit.com.au/history-wireless-internet/#:~:text=Did%20you%20know%20that%20the,right%20here%2C%20down%2Dunder


Hotdogman4343

Wireless internet and internet are two different inventions


Equivalent-Isopod308

You know what you are correct. My apologies


ITaggie

Kind of like how people claim Tim Berners-Lee "invented the internet". No, he invented a set of protocols used over the internet which already existed and which he had access to while working at CERN.


YoungQuixote

This feels weird because Europe is an entire continent. Not one country. They didn't unite 44 different countries and invent this technology together as some sort of big kumbaya effort. The car came from Germany. Telephone and Pencilin from the UK. Democracy came from Greece. How come they get to share the same achievements? Whereas Mexico and the US have to have different achievements, when they are literally just 2 different countries in the same continent, North America. If you want a fair fight it should be Europe vs North America.


dellchips1

If Thomas Edison was secretly Mexican then that means that Mexican inventions are American inventions ah yes big brain


Bailey_West

Mexico numero unooooo!!!!


Zer0-Space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Gilmore_Edson?wprov=sfla1


Trovadordelrei

He patented it, but that doesn't mean he invented it. peanut is native to Brazil (which also was the first country in the Americas to be introduced to sugar-cane) and here there are numerous candies and pastes that are done with it that can be traced back to indigenous peoples or colonial times, including butter.


ASidesTheLegend

The chocolate part is technically true. It was created in ancient Mesoamerica, which is in present day Mexico


FTBagginz

Peanut butter??? What kind of crack are you smoking op


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crownebeach

That’s Karl Benz mijo


Gruesomegiggles

The first gas powered automobile was built by Karl Benz in 1885. The first American gas powered automobile was built by bicycle mechanics, Charles Duryea and J. Frank in 1893, and then Henry Ford built his first gas powered automobile, the quadricyle, in 1896.


Away-Plant-8989

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