I could easily name fifty beers, wines and cheeses - among them, being named after the place of origin is pretty much standard.
Anyone say Kobe beef yet?
I could easily name fifty beers, wines and cheeses - among them, being named after the place of origin is pretty much standard.
Anyone say Kobe beef yet?
Concord Grapes
Worcestershire Sauce
Georgia Peach
London Broil
Cuba Libre (Do people still drink these?)
Arkansas Wild Rice (Although as someone once pointed out, it isn’t wild, it
isn’t rice, and it doesn’t come from Arkansas)
Sure, why wouldn’t they? It’s a rum & coke with some lime.
There’s about a zillion apple varieties that are named after specific locations (e.g., the Roxbury Russet).
Delmonico steak
Fortescue Fries (fried oysters)
A few more cocktails:
Brooklyn
Bronx (actually named after the zoo)
Jersey (as in “New Jersey”)
Fish House Punch
…and a whole bunch of others, ranging from “Adirondack” to “Yale”
ETA: It’s also common for oyster varieties to be identified by their point of origin.
In the South, those are called “fiddlesticks”. How 'bout Tabasco? Made in Louisiana but named for a Mexican state.
Lancashire hotpot
Chorley cake
Eccles cake
Banbury cake
Cumberland sausage
Yorkshire pudding
Cornish pasty
Lancashire pasty
Bedfordshire clanger
Cullen skink
Everton mint
Montreal bagels and Montreal smoked meat.
Ah yes, I know her well;)
Lima Beans
Hawaiian Punch
Slingapore Sling
Dijon Mustard
Welsh Rabbit
Bavarian Creams
Vienna Sausage
Turkey
Java
Brilliant folks those Hawaiians… now I know what I want to make for dinner! I think I used up my emergency spam in the ice storm of 2008, so I may have to restock.
Emergency Spam. You are a Hawaiian at heart.
Tortilla espanola.
Vichysoisse
Peach Melba. Named after Dame Nellie Melba who took her name from Melbourne.
If we include Dame Nellie, we can include all four of the dishes Escoffier was inspired by her to create: Peach Melba, Melba toast, Melba sauce and Melba Garniture.
You could- I hadn’t heard of the other 3
Walla Walla sweet onions.
Copper River Salmon.
Wild Alaskan Salmon.
Saigon Surprise (Kind of an involved backstory that’s not friendly towards Americans)
Fight my ignorance: Isn’t hamburger named after Hamburg, NY?
Mars bars
Sandwich
Beef Wellington
It seems like both. Hamburger as a steak was invented in Germany but made into a sandwich in the US.