The Bison neighborhood of Hamburg, of course!
Buffalo, NY.
The home of buffalo wings.
And boneless wings.
Rochester is the home of the garbage plate, which is not garbage until the leftovers are thrown out.
Tom Lehrer: The Irish Ballad
Someone made a modest proposal related to fixing that.
That’s what initially came into my head.
Hmm, I’ve always thought of these as Lady’s (Ladies’??) Fingers!
As we are in Germany by now, I must mention Kinderschnitzel, Jägerschnitzel and Zigeunerschnitzel here. Neither is made of what it promises. And cat’s tongues are made of chocolate or biscuit!
Then I will repeat that buffalos have no wings until the cows come home. (hmmm… ninja’d?)
Wow, never heard that name, but Okra doesn’t grow well in Minnesota. We import it from down south where they have a longer growing season.
as a kid, I was pretty nervous after my mom told me she was making “porcupine balls” for dinner, but they were just beef meatballs with rice (some grains did in fact stick up like a quill) and became one of my favorite dinners she made us
pets de nonne
A special case for a special German region: in the Kölsch dialect of the city of Cologne, “e halve Hahn” translates to High German “halber Hahn” and “half a chicken” in English. Everywhere else in Germany, if you order “ein halbes Hähnchen” (Hähnchen is the diminutive of Hahn), you’ll get just that, a half roast chicken, but if you order a “halve Hahn” in a Cologne pub, you’ll get half of a bread roll with a thick slice of Gouda and mustard. Those Colognians are a strange bunch…
What do you expect from someone that drinks beer out of test tubes?
Yeah, Kölsch, the only dialect in the world with its own beer.
Or dachshunds, either! They were originally called red hot dachshund dogs and changed to just red hots, and then simply hot dogs.
I’m pretty sure Girl Scout Cookies don’t contain any Girl Scouts.
A Coney Dog does not contain any dogs or rabbits, I would hope.
Boston cream pie is actually a cake, not a pie.
And then you have turkey that does not come from Turkey. In Turkey it is called Hindi (from India), but it does not come from India, in Arabic it is called “Roman chicken” and you guessed it - it does not come from Rome. And the Portuguese - they call it Peru and funnily enough that’s what it is called in India as well!
Guinea pig (cuy) is eaten in South America, but it’s not from Guinea and is not a pig, either.
Cheesecake does contain cream cheese, but it’s not very cake-like.