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People always say that, but it's never true.
It's still a sausage.
KFC is deep-fried roasted chicken. Frying chicken in fat was something that people were doing in Scotland hundreds of years ago. The fact that KFC is an American corporation doesn't mean that it's not fundamentally making a European dish. As for McDonalds, Frisadelle is basically a hamburger patty, and it's been a German / Scandinavian dish for centuries. Slapping bread around meat was popularized by the Earl of Sandwich around the 1760s. Maybe the hamburger in its current form is a US thing, but it's merely a slight refinement of a few European ideas.
I've eaten all over North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. That's why I know that British food is basically just European food, just as North American food is also mostly just European food.
"The Earl of Sandwich" is just the most greatest thing or I am just too high. I hope he has a statue somewhere
What's interesting is that "The Earl of Sandwich" was just a title like "The Earl of Devon", "The Earl of Suffolk", "The Earl of Essex", etc.
Sandwiches got their name because that Earl liked playing cards and wanted food he could hold that wouldn't mess up his cards. So, it's like calling one of the things he (or his cook) invented "A McDonalds". But, now, we're so used to the name "A Sandwich" that the title "Earl of Sandwich" sounds weird. Even though "wich" is a pretty common place name ending, like "Norwich", "Dunwich", etc. And, "Sand" is pretty normal as part of a place name, but not as part of food.
Sandwich is also near the village of ham
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ham_Sandwich_road_sign,_Kent.jpg
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