# Foods Named after Places **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772 "2008-12-18T17:59:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/21 "2008-12-18T19:44:33Z")
Long Island Iced Tea Idaho Potatoes New York style cheesecake Welsh Rabbit Cheese Danish English Muffin Kentucky Fried Chicken (technically obsolete) Manhattan (cocktail) Blue Point Oysters (named after where they were originally harvested, though I believe the grounds are now depleted). California roll (sushi) Szechuan beef, chicken, etc. (a Chinese province). Pad Thai ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/22 "2008-12-18T19:46:42Z")
Yorkshire Pudding Parker House Rolls Toll House Cookies Rocky Mountain Oysters Sex on the Beach ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/23 "2008-12-18T19:50:43Z")
NY Strip Steak Georgia Peaches Pennsylvania Dutch Bread Coneys (After Coney Island) Cornish Pasties ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/24 "2008-12-18T19:51:12Z")
Philly cheesesteak Coney dog Manhattan (the cocktail) Long Island Iced Tea (also) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/25 "2008-12-18T19:51:33Z")
**RealityChuck** , there is a Kentucky Fried Chicken – not KFC – in downtown Cleveland. I used to pass it every day before my parking lot was reassigned, but that was only about five weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/26 "2008-12-18T19:52:09Z")
Eccles Cakes Pontefract Cakes Bath Buns Manchester Tart Bakewell Tart Whitley Goose Newcastle Brown Ale Gosforth Gridies ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/27 "2008-12-18T19:52:13Z")
Cognac ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/28 "2008-12-18T19:56:38Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Coney dog Singapore Sling Cafe Zurich (cocktails) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/29 "2008-12-18T19:59:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Hamburgers > … > Frankfurters and Wieners ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/30 "2008-12-18T20:00:56Z")
Thousand Island Dressing ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/31 "2008-12-18T20:10:48Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Thousand Island Dressing For that matter, Catalina dressing. And Ranch dressing (for Hidden Valley Ranch). And if you want to stretch matters, Italian, Russian, and French dressings, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/32 "2008-12-18T20:13:31Z")
A gentleman named Oscar Tschirky was employed by hotelier George Boldt as the maitre d’ of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel’s in-hotel dining facilities. Mr. Tschirky is responsible for both the following: 1. He suggested mixing chopped apples and celery into mayonnaise and serving it over a bed of lettuce. Later chopped walnuts and, optionally, grapes or raisins were added to the mix. This was named after the hotel, the **Waldorf Salad**. 2. Mr. Tschirky’s employer George Boldt loved the Thousand Islands resort area on the St. Lawrence River between northern New York and eastern Ontario. In honor of Mr. Boldt’s summer place, his idea for a creamy salad dressing, mayonnaise mixed with barbecue sauce and green pickle relish, was christened **Thousand Islands Dressing**. ================= On Czech beer: Anyone remember the Sudetenland, the German border area whose cession in the Munich agreement was one of the lead-ins to World War II? The Sudetendeutsch had lived there, as a part of Bohemia, for hundreds of years, mostly under Austrian rule until 1918. Their beers were famous, particularly those from Budweis, today’s Ceske Budejovice, and Pilsen, today’s Plzen – Budweiser and Pilsener. Anheuser-Busch brewery of St. Louis brought out an American beer intended to be as close a copy as possible of the beer from Budweis, and hence named it Budweiser. The area bordering the Maas River north of Liege, which ended up being divided between Belgium and the Netherlands, was famous for a very odoriferous soft cheese, named after the province: Limburg. ---
**Author:** ![Heropsychodreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Heropsychodreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heropsychodreamer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/33 "2008-12-18T20:13:32Z")
Cortland Apples (Cortland, NY) ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/34 "2008-12-18T20:17:28Z")
Fig Newtons are named for the town of Newton, Massachusetts (and not Isaac Newton). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/35 "2008-12-18T20:24:32Z")
New England Boiled Dinner. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/36 "2008-12-18T20:26:53Z")
Peking Duck Baked Alaska ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/37 "2008-12-18T20:31:05Z")
In these parts, Hawaiian pizza means ham-and-pineapple ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/38 "2008-12-18T20:45:28Z")
Humboldt Fog cheese. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/39 "2008-12-18T21:14:22Z")
Canadian Bacon! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772/40 "2008-12-18T21:19:33Z")
I’d call “-ian” names stretching it a bit. My understanding of the OP is that it involves place names, not just vague references to nationality. That’s why I noted that “Italian, Russian and French dressing” were stretching it. The list could jump to 4 or 5 times the likely size if we include those kind of references. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-named-after-places/477772.md?page=3)