Boston Cream Pie is a custard cake, but not German.
Nope, just a little shpilkis in my gonectigizoink.
Actually, yes, I did know that. And French’s mustard isn’t French, but that one’s more obvious.
“French’s is an American manufacturer of prepared mustard condiment. Created by Robert Timothy French, French’s mustard debuted to the world at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair”
And Mr. French of Family Affair was not French, he was English. Fortunately, this show did not air after 9/01 or they would have changed the character’s name to Mr. Freedom, which unfortunately makes one think of a superhero wearing spandex and you really don’t want to go there.
I did know that it got it’s name from Baker’s Sweet German Chocolate. The recipe on their chocolate is the one I use. I probably wouldn’t know this if I wasn’t into baking deserts.
I have known about the German Chocolate Cake story for years.
First of all, having lived in Germany, most were quite perplexed when asked about such a cake. Germans coming to visit me are often amused to see it on the menu and if I forgot to tell them the story, report back on eating a cake they have never heard of, but supposedly comes from Germany.
In Berlin, the name for the traditional black and white cookie (half vanilla frosting, half chocolate) is “Ami” (short for “American”). The reason they started calling them “Ami’s” is after the war when they would see black GI’s and white GI’s roaming through the streets and the name of cookie evolved from there.
Nope, it’s actually Bostonian (imagine that!) Cite
