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.
And you can’t make babies from adding water to baby powder, either.
Texas hots are not from Texas, but from Western New York.
and Texas Pete’s is from North Carolina.
I also hear the Cleveland Steamer is not really from Ohio.
The Mars Bar originated in the UK by an American.
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?
Every time I see a “home-made pie” on a restaurant menu I want to ask whose home it was made in.
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.
What about Brownies?
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.
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.
Every time I see ‘homegrown’ vegetables. I have asked produce department workers this and they look at me like I have three heads.
Personally, I’d prefer a ho-made pie.
“English” muffins are American, although they do kind of resemble crumpets, which are indeed English.
Oh, and the dish that English settlers in North America called “Indian pudding” wasn’t actually made by American Indians.
It’s thanks to people like you that we have to put up with reading “housemade” now?
Thanks.
Boston Pizza/Boston’s started in Edmonton. Curiously, there are no franchises in Boston.
Zildijan genuine Turkish cymbols are made in America.
Cuba libre is an oxymoron.