# X Y is not Y made in X, it's Y made in Z. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009 "2010-01-07T06:41:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/21 "2010-01-07T19:57:43Z")
Baby oil doesn’t really come from babies. Wasted a lot of time before I knew that. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/22 "2010-01-07T20:25:40Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Baby oil doesn’t really come from babies. Wasted a lot of time before I knew that. …and, of course, Girl Scout cookies are NOT made with real Girl Scouts. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/23 "2010-01-07T20:29:22Z")
And you can’t make babies from adding water to baby powder, either. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/24 "2010-01-07T20:32:59Z")
Texas hots are not from Texas, but from [Western New York](http://www.google.com/search?q=texas+hots). ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/25 "2010-01-07T20:56:00Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Texas hots are not from Texas, but from [Western New York](http://www.google.com/search?q=texas+hots). and [Texas Pete’s](http://www.texaspete.com/) is from North Carolina. I also hear the Cleveland Steamer is not really from Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/26 "2010-01-07T21:00:46Z")
The [Mars Bar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Bar) originated in the UK by an American. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/27 "2010-01-07T21:01:01Z")
Brazilians apparently have nothing to do with nationality. And apparently the Chinese do not make their firefighters practice by running around vehicles and spraying them with shaving cream. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/28 "2010-01-07T21:05:19Z")
Every time I see a “home-made pie” on a restaurant menu I want to ask whose home it was made in. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/29 "2010-01-07T21:43:06Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > If you want Canadian bacon in Canada, you’ll have to order peameal or back bacon. Also, in France, French restaurants are just called “restaurants”. Same thing in Japan with Japanese restaurants, I’ve been told. BTW, the Cleveland Steamer did not originate from Cleveland, but rather Cleveland Heights. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/30 "2010-01-07T21:54:05Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > …and, of course, Girl Scout cookies are NOT made with real Girl Scouts. What about Brownies? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/31 "2010-01-07T22:03:02Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I think the French call it “pain perdu,” which means “lost bread.” The idea is, you’re salvaging stale bread that would otherwise be thrown away by dipping it in egg and milk and then frying it. We had a French foreign exchange high school student when I was in grade school. (My bro and sis were in high school at the time.) He always called it “l’oeuf bread” to us (yep, mixing the French and the English like that) - egg bread. Not sure what he’d refer to it as at home. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/32 "2010-01-07T22:03:23Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > BTW, the Cleveland Steamer did not originate from Cleveland, but rather Cleveland Heights. I can’t help but hope you hadn’t read my post. That two unrelated people would read this thread and think of the Cleveland Steamer, well that just makes me so . . . happy. ---
**Author:** ![slowpony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@slowpony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowpony)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/33 "2010-01-07T22:54:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Every time I see a “home-made pie” on a restaurant menu I want to ask whose home it was made in. Every time I see ‘homegrown’ vegetables. I have asked produce department workers this and they look at me like I have three heads. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/34 "2010-01-07T22:57:16Z")
Personally, I’d prefer a ho-made pie. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/35 "2010-01-07T23:05:22Z")
“English” muffins are American, although they do kind of resemble crumpets, which are indeed English. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/36 "2010-01-07T23:13:18Z")
Oh, and the dish that English settlers in North America called [“Indian pudding”](http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/HastyPudding_IndianPudding.htm) wasn’t actually made by American Indians. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/37 "2010-01-07T23:16:24Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Every time I see a “home-made pie” on a restaurant menu I want to ask whose home it was made in. It’s thanks to people like you that we have to put up with reading [“housemade”](http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/05/language-menus-housemade-is-the-new-homemade-menus.html) now? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/38 "2010-01-07T23:38:14Z")
Boston Pizza/Boston’s started in Edmonton. Curiously, there are no franchises in Boston. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/39 "2010-01-07T23:39:36Z")
Zildijan genuine Turkish cymbols are made in America. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-y-is-not-y-made-in-x-its-y-made-in-z/524009/40 "2010-01-08T00:49:00Z")
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