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.
I don’t remember seeing anyNanaimo bars in Nanaimo itself… 
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!
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Well, since we don’t call it Canadian Bacon, you probably couldn’t get it.
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What do we call it?
Really? Germans willing to go to that length to defend besmirched French honor? Maybe a truly united Europe really is in the offing.
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.
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.
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.
Going to the Outback Stakehouse makes me laugh. I had never heard of half those dishes:
http://www.outbacksteakhouse.com/menu/menuprinterfriendly.asp
It almost made me chock on my prawns (NOT shrimp… PRAWNS).
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”.
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.
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Well, since we don’t call it Canadian Bacon, you probably couldn’t get it.
Back bacon. I hadn’t ever heard the term ‘Canadian Bacon’ until the movie with John Candy came out.
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.
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.
I hear tell that you can’t get English muffins in England.
Actually, you can get a California burger in California. But out here, the accepted definition of a California Burger includes avocado.
I heard the same thing with Chinese food, apperentley they just call it ‘food’.
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.
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!
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.