# Foods named after geography **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343 "2004-02-21T07:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/21 "2004-02-23T01:31:51Z")
> [@](#): > > The Ceasar Salad is named after the Ceasar hotel in Tijuana, Baja California (the hotel doesn’t exist anymore) More likely, named after Caesar Cardini, an Italian immigrant, who _perhaps_ ran a hotel in Tijuana in the late 1920’s and invented it. It really only became an item, when it suddenly appeared in Hollywood around the mid-40’s. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/22 "2004-02-23T01:39:11Z")
I don’t remember seeing _any_Nanaimo bars in Nanaimo itself… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/23 "2004-02-23T01:48:54Z")
> [@sam239](#): > > not sure, but how 'bout Canadian bacon? Well, since we don’t call it Canadian Bacon, you probably couldn’t get it. **Sunspace** , a pox on you. I was about to come in here and say Nanaimo Bars! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/24 "2004-02-23T01:52:58Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Well, since we don’t call it Canadian Bacon, you probably couldn’t get it. [QUOTE] What do we call it? ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/25 "2004-02-23T02:09:52Z")
> [@ITR champion](#): > > … I read an article saying that some bakeries were renaming “The Americaner” to “The Peace Pastry” as revenge for the whole freedom fries business. Really? Germans willing to go to that length to defend besmirched French honor? Maybe a truly united Europe really is in the offing. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/26 "2004-02-23T02:22:30Z")
In the US a number of years ago I bought a sandwich with “Australian Cheese” on it that had far more similarity to American Plastic than it did to Coon or Bega Tasty. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/27 "2004-02-23T06:07:22Z")
Not only have I never seen a “California burger” in California, I have never seen it outside of central Minnesota. And before you ask, it’s a hamburger. With lettuce and tomato. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/28 "2004-02-23T06:18:27Z")
In the Detroit area, there are places you can order something called a Boston cooler. It’s a float made with vanilla ice cream and Vernors, which is a locally bottled ginger ale you’d be hard pressed to find outside of Michigan. :rolleyes: Tasty though. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Sparky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Saint\_Sparky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Sparky)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/29 "2004-02-23T06:33:14Z")
Going to the Outback Stakehouse makes me laugh. I had never heard of half those dishes: [http://www.outbacksteakhouse.com/menu/menuprinterfriendly.asp](http://www.outbacksteakhouse.com/menu/menuprinterfriendly.asp) It almost made me chock on my prawns (NOT shrimp… PRAWNS). ---
**Author:** ![electrozion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@electrozion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/electrozion)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/30 "2004-02-23T08:56:12Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > Really? Germans willing to go to that length to defend besmirched French honor? Maybe a truly united Europe really is in the offing. Living in Germany I never heard of that, but i saw a bakery displaying “Nasen Amis” - “Nose Americans”. They were Amerikaner with a face an a plastic clown-nose. Then there is Wiener (Wien = Vienna) and “Wiener Schnitzel” and the very similar “Costoletta alla milanese”. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/31 "2004-02-23T16:56:46Z")
Somebody mentioned Danish pastry (Kopenhagener in German), so I would just like to point out that this bread is called _Wienerbröd_ in Danish and Swedish (Norwegian I don’t know). However, if what a friend once told me is true it has nothing to do with Vienna, but was inventented by a Copenhagen baker called Wiener. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/32 "2004-02-23T17:13:39Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] [QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Well, since we don’t call it Canadian Bacon, you probably couldn’t get it. > [@](#): > > What do we call it? Back bacon. I hadn’t ever heard the term ‘Canadian Bacon’ until the movie with John Candy came out. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/33 "2004-02-23T17:22:13Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Long Island Ice Tea > > Baked Alaska > > Yorkshire Pudding Yorkshire pudding? Of course you can get Yorkshire puding in Yorkshire! And very nice it is too. When I was in New York, I saw Irish Swiss cheese on sandwich bar menus, which threw me a bit. Someone has since explained to me what it is, but I have never seen it here, so I suppose it is made and named for the American market. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/34 "2004-02-23T19:10:04Z")
Well you can get Maryland chicken in the south, but I have no idea what it is as I’ve never seen it in Maryland. I also got a packet of tea once called Maryland tea, I think I got it in Wyoming. Never seen that around here either. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/35 "2004-02-23T19:26:00Z")
I hear tell that you can’t get English muffins in England. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/36 "2004-02-23T19:48:21Z")
> [@chique](#): > > Not only have I never seen a “California burger” in California, I have never seen it outside of central Minnesota. > > And before you ask, it’s a hamburger. With lettuce and tomato. Actually, you **can** get a California burger in California. But out here, the accepted definition of a California Burger includes avocado. ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/37 "2004-02-23T20:21:36Z")
> [@FisherQueen](#): > > I hear tell that you can’t get English muffins in England. I heard the same thing with Chinese food, apperentley they just call it ‘food’. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/38 "2004-02-23T20:27:15Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I don’t remember seeing _any_Nanaimo bars in Nanaimo itself… 🙂 Well you weren’t looking hard enough! I grew up there and I saw them everywhere. 🙂 In sushi land there are usually some locally named rolls (BC rolls and Seattle rolls) and also the more common California roll. ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/39 "2004-02-23T20:40:15Z")
It seems to me that virtually everyone has missed the point of the OP. It is supposed to be foods named after places that are not available in the named place. Its actually pretty hard to think of them to be honest! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/40 "2004-02-23T21:58:08Z")
French fries. They didn’t originate in France and they are called simply “fried potatoes” (_pommes frites_). But I guess this doesn’t actually address the OP either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343.md?page=3)