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KarinInEuropeHard to believe. All not native Americans are "imported" from other parts of the world. Nothing, except native Americans, is original
USA.
WikiPedia isn't always correct.
Charlotte 
/Cinny 
@pikesley we have “russian bread” which is named that because supposedly the german baker got the recipe in st. petersburg (it is virtually unheard of in russia)
@pikesley i should also add, these are cookies in the shape of letters
LATIN letters. not cyrillic. as far as i can tell nobody ever mass produced a cyrillic version
(dubious) opinion haver 
Tenkoman
Wurzelmann@pikesley I could not believe this was true but...
Kingfisher@pikesley yea, it's really supposed to be German's chocolate cake, named after the guy who developed the type of chocolate used in the cake...it's not a cake from Germany!
Genette B 
PoempelFox🦊@pikesley That reminds me that "German" is actually also a male first name / given name in Germany - so a nearby town has a mayor whose name is "German Hacker". (n.b.: the pronunciation of this is of course entirely different from how you would pronounce it in english, but it looks fun in writing.)
skaphle@PoempelFox @pikesley I never met anyone named "German". Is it a regional thing?
Eugen P. 🏡 ユージーン
Travis LaFleur@pikesley some more of these via @jkottke https://kottke.org/24/02/things-unexpectedly-named-after-people
BattleBot23@pikesley My entire world view has been thrown off it’s axis. Now I need some German chocolate cake to calm down.
eighthourlunch@pikesley Now look up Caesar salad. :)
The Turtle@pikesley to fuck with things even more, in the US, it's now called "Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate, and you can still buy it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=german%27s%20sweet%20chocolate
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@pikesley I am German, and I can tell you that there are several kinds of chocolate cake from different regions of Germany, none of which bear any resemblance to American "German chocolate cake".
Her DoingThis was a QI gotcha question a few years ago. 👍
Mathias Micheel@pikesley an Indian friend of my wanted to make a surprise for me and my wife and learnt the recipe for "German chocolate cake" on YouTube. We told him this recipe was completely unknown and until now I did not know where the confusion came from😅
kaybee@pikesley I wonder if there's a word for this. Cf. "Outerbridge Crossing" in NY, so-called not because it's the outermost bridge in NYC (which it is), but for Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge.
melancholy olivia@pikesley a closely related story is "baker's chocolate", which is kinda crap for baking but is named after a dude named baker.
Bardnet@pikesley Have you heard of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Hacker? 😂
Bleistifterin@pikesley both coconut and pecan could have been a hint... Not common in Germany
Menno@pikesley
Well, soon it is to be called "Chocolate Cake of America" anyway.
Well, soon it is to be called "Chocolate Cake of America" anyway.
Lord Tom Klopf of CZ 
@pikesley let me guess, there’s a ‘Englischer Schokoladenkuchen’ in Germany named after Hans Englischer…
Mike P@pikesley GREEDOM CAKE
kirakira@pikesley samuel german, the inventor of german,
jaxter184@pikesley Also "baker's chocolate": https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/
Cæla 
@pikesley the surprises just keep coming. Further down the page:
Popular throughout Hawaii is the Chantilly cake, a modified German chocolate cake...
Despite its name, it does not contain Chantilly cream.
Jack, Digital Expat@pikesley That's it. I'm out. Cya.