Which isn’t an artichoke either.
Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Labrador retrievers actually originated on the island of Newfoundland. They and Newfoundland dogs share an origin in the St John’s water dog.
Right. Everyone gets this wrong, but in different ways. In French, Turkeys are literally “from India” (dinde).
Chinese Checkers
Indian (when referring to native Americans)
Causasian
It is a chocolate cake with coconut in it. Damned swallows…
Black Forest cake is, however, most likely from Germany.
No. It originated in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Vichyssoise, the cold soup we know today, was invented in New York. It was, however, based on a similar hot soup that really indeed come from Vichy.
It’s a chocolate (but not very chocolatey) cake topped with a sticky and very sweet topping made from coconut and pecans. It’s named for an American brand of baking chocolate, Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate. The brand in turn was named for Samuel German who developed that type of chocolate, and James Baker who owned the company that sold it.
Vienna sausages!
AFAIK, Kansas City strip steak doesn’t really have anything to do with Kansas City, although a New York strip does have some relationship to New York.
It may have done, it may not. One story is that it was called “Old Bourbon Whiskey” because it came from the area known as “Old Bourbon” (where Bourbon County in Virginia had been), another has it named for Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Others say other things. There’s no definitive documented history though, and no requirement for it to come from Bourbon County now; it just needs to be from the US.
Oh…OK. I guess I’d vaguely encountered the American phrase “German Chocolate Cake”, but assumed it was another name for Black Forest Gateau.
Even if so, that doesn’t change my point that it originated in a place named “Bourbon” and is named after the place it originated in.
Caesar Salad has nothing to do with any Roman emperor.
Scotch tape
Interesting Thread name/poster combination, although Yorkshire Pudding does seem to have originated in northern England, possibly even in Yorkshire.
I recall a TV show about sexual matters back in the 1970s that observed that everybody named venereal diseases after some other country. syphilis was “The French Disease” to the British (and in Naples), the “Spanish Disease” by the French, and IIRC, “The Polish Disease” by the Russians.
Similarly, a Condom was called a “French letter” in the US (and, I think, Britain)
I’ll bet a Mexican standoff isn’t even Mexican
In the US we have French’s Mustard, which is not to be confused with the UK’s French Mustard. And of course, as the OP noted, neither are from France.
In fact if you go to the French’s Mustard Web site, their current tagline is “Not From France”.
Tabasco sauce isn’t from the Mexican state of Tabasco.
Hawaiian pizza was invented by a Greek man in Canada.
In Hebrew, too (“hodu”). In addition to “turkey” and “India”, hodu is also the plural of “give thanks”. Busy word, that.
A fair point, in both cases. But Bourbon might be more to do with its distribution than its origin, and the existence of a modern place named Bourbon makes it look to the uninitiated like that’s the source of the drink. Which it pretty routinely isn’t: virtually no (if any) Bourbon comes from Bourbon.
This discussion is particularly fun, I recall, when you’re a bartender being lectured by a drunk Englishman who clearly wishes he was a cowboy, and knows nothing about whiskey but thinks he wrote the book on it.