Name something the Germans invented without googling

They invented Germany, that was a pretty big deal

Meh. Strongly derivative work, and they kept reinventing the wheel.

They didn’t invent East Germany.

The hamburger, from the city of Hamburg.

And German chocolate cake from Deutschschokoladenkuchen

Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can’t remember which) was named “German” and I think the original name was “German’s chocolate cake”

It’s also just a super German state from an immigration perspective. At the time, the Mexicans were very upset by all of the Europeans jumping the borders and taking work they didn’t particularly want anyway.

Correct, the credit for that goes to Texas – the use of Coconut and Pecans should have given it away, those were very ingredients rare in Germany (still kinda are to this day).

The first known instance of this recipe comes from a lady from Dallas, who named it after the brand of chocolate she was using to make it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake

And schadenfreude: the joy that comes from others suffering!

Wasn’t the hamburger invented in the US? There they had Frikadellen, which are arguably much better.

As far as the story goes, the meat-in-a-bun concept was taken by sailors from Hamburg to the USA, where it was tweaked for local preferences and then called a hamburger. So the Germans invented it, USA marketed it.

So they

Applied previous knowledge
Created something observed to be new
Named it

And that doesn’t count? What’s the definition of inventing something? If I create a new flavor of bread, does it not count because flour was already invented?

When you go back further it was the romans that brought that concept to Germany. Romans invented it, Germany tweaked it, and USA went further with it.

Name something the Germans didn’t invent.

But they were the first to have a bakery attached.

Nope. The Brits did that, in South Africa, iirc.

You are supposed to mention things the Germans didn’t invent in this section.

Oh, right. Somehow I only noticed the original post.

And what about Mozart?

Civil engineering. And they’ve been confused at how the Italians beat them to it ever since

Germans known inefficiency pretty damn well, I can tell you that much.

IN THIS HOUSE IT WAS ANTONIO MEUCCI, END OF DISCUSSION!

Okay then, glass. Invented in 9th century in Spain.

The number zero, sanitation, statistics.

Germany actually did invent this. The brothers Wright only stuck an engine to it. The first glider that actually deserved its name was inveted by Otto Lilienthal. He died in it. Without his work, the Wright brothers would not have been able to build their plane.

All inventions being based on some previous work, is it not the Wright who invented the airplane, and Lilienthal who invented the glider?

Technically, the Wrights’ main contribution was the 3-axis steering mechanism, which is what made powered flight practical.

Greggs sausage rolls. Or are we counting the Anglo-Saxons as ex-pats?

The bicycle
The car
The computer (arguably, with the Zuse Z3)

Spoiler: I’m German.

Not the computer, but the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer (which would be a stage in computer hardware.)

It would be Babbage’s machine as mechanical computers precede digital ones and only if we only allow nonspecific turing complete machines.

It was the first programmable, fully automatic, digital, turing-complete computer (although they only found out the last part after Zuse died).
So I’d argue, it was the first computer in the sense we understand and use the word today.

Schadenfreude. I mean they probably didn’t invent the feeling but I can give them credit for it along with the word.

" I also like hiraeth. It’s a Welsh concept of longing for home."

Weird way to spell “Heimweh”

Or homesickness. Fernweh, on the other hand, only exists (somewhat) in English in idioms, afaik: itchy feet

Any word in Welsh is a weird way to spell a word.

TIL that’s a feeling and not just the TF2 laughing emote

Its more than a feeling.

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