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A Most Delicious Debate: Who Invented the Hamburger?
最美味的爭論：誰發明了漢堡

Mark: And for the last stop on our trip, we visited the birthplace of the hamburger.
Klaus: Hold on a second. The hamburger was invented in Germany.
Mark: I think you're mistaken. It was invented in the United States. Hamburgers are "American as apple pie," as we say back home. For proof you need look no further than McDonald's.
Klaus: Rubbish! Every German knows that hamburgers come from Hamburg. The proof lies in how the word is spelled.
Waitress: Excuse me, gentlemen, but I couldn't help overhearing your argument. I'm a bit of a foodie, and I happen to know a lot about hamburgers. In a way you're both right. The ground meat part came from Germany. The bun, on the other hand, was an American nvention. It was added because factory workers had to eat their Hamburg steaks" quickly and get back to work.
Klaus: Well, the meat is the most important part.
Mark: What? The bun is what makes a hamburger.
Waitress: Oh, dear...

馬克：我們旅途的最後一站還去造訪了漢堡的發源地。
克勞斯：等一下，漢堡的發源地是德國。
馬克：我想你誤會了，漢堡是美國發明的，我們在家鄉常說：「漢堡就像是你聽到蘋果派就會想到美國人的意思一樣。」要證明這件事的話，很簡單，看看麥當勞就知道了。
克勞斯：胡扯！每一個德國人都知道漢堡來自漢堡市，光看單字的拼法就是證據。
女服務生：不好意思兩位先生，我不小心聽到你們爭論的內容，我算是個老饕，也剛好熟悉漢堡的二三事，其實某種程度上來說，你們兩位的論點都對。漢堡肉排的部分是來自德國，但漢堡麵包的部分則是美國人發明的。多加了漢堡麵包的原因，是因為工廠工人必須快點吃完「漢堡肉排」，才能繼續回到工作崗位。
克勞斯：所以肉排是最重要的部分。
馬克：什麼！漢堡麵包才是製成漢堡的靈魂。
女服務生：老天啊??