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I love finding examples of this in food too - for example hot dogs sold out of push carts in New York date back to the 1860s whereas ciabatta dates back to 1982

• ed_westin 3y ago
  From a Newsweek article, sliced bread was invented in 1928. French fries and baguettes in the 1920s. https://www.newsweek.com/food-invented-last-100-years-1643365 https://www.newsweek.com/food-invented-last-100-years-164336...
  • pfannkuchen 3y ago
    On (pre)sliced bread, the slices dry out unless you ruin the bread with weird industrial chemicals. I would guess that is why it wasn’t popular earlier.
• ed_westin 3y ago
  Heinz invented beans on toast in 1927 https://www.internationelle.org/beans-on-toast/ https://www.internationelle.org/beans-on-toast/
• icegreentea2 3y ago
  The defining feature of 'invented tradition' as a term is that it's presented or perceived as older than it is. The 'perceived' part gets weird when the tradition escapes its founding environment. I will admit that I thought ciabatta was older than 1982, but I do wonder what the perception and presentation of it was like when it did come out in Italy at the time.
• Avshalom 3y ago
  Italian food is full of stuff like this https://archive.ph/4gwGh https://archive.ph/4gwGh kind of a combination of facism era mythmaking then postwar recovery era mythmaking