Re: foods named after places

Joe Fineman:

> "retrosorter" <hrichler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Is there a process whereby names for foods are named after foreign
>> locales? I ask this because I am bemused that what we call "Danish
>> pastry " in North America is called vienerbrod in Denmark but called
>> copenhager in certain German-speaking countries.
>
> I gather that the English have no need of a name for English muffins,
> because they do not have the things. Are Frankfurters & Viennese
> acquainted with frankfurters & wieners?

Frankfurters are; it's "Frankfurter Würstchen" like everywhere else in
Germany.

Mainzers have the "Mainzer Handkäse" even though it is from Groß Gerau.

The Hamburgers I know _never_ talk about Hamburgers. They go "Einen
McDonalds essen".

Joachim
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