# Foods named after geography

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343>\
**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:** 6\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/41 "2004-02-24T00:21:44Z")

</div>

Brazil nuts … “here, we just call them nuts” …

(from that summertime movie with the Rock & Christopher Walken … Rundown?)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/42 "2004-02-24T02:37:29Z")

</div>

> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#):
>
> Back bacon. I hadn’t ever heard the term ‘Canadian Bacon’ until the movie with John Candy came out.

It’s been “Canadian Bacon” since I grew up in Virginia in the 1950’s.

It goes back to the late 1800’s in US speech.

_Back Bacon_ is a mainly British expression, so it would be common to Canadians in the early 20th century.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/43 "2004-02-24T05:18:57Z")

</div>

> [@](#):
>
> 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. Tasty though.

You know, it never really occured to me that it was odd to name a drink made with a Detroit area beverage a Boston cooler. But I agree, they are quite tasty.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/44 "2004-02-24T08:36:14Z")

</div>

Berliners – the pastry made famous by everyone’s favourite misremembered historical oddity. Apparently, in Berlin they’re not called Berliners.

(Also, audio recordings have the audience clapping and cheering after JFK said that; they laugh a few seconds later after he makes an intentional joke.)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/45 "2004-02-24T09:11:34Z")

</div>

What? No mention of Catalina dressing yet? (For Catalina Island, of the CA coast.)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![OM\_Waterfall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/51bf81/32.png) [@OM\_Waterfall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OM_Waterfall)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343/46 "2004-02-24T12:14:18Z")

</div>

A Map of Tassie is considered a delicacy by some…

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-geography/230343.md?page=2)