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*[[Frankfurt]]er - a [[hot dog]] named after the German city but not often eaten there | *[[Frankfurt]]er - a [[hot dog]] named after the German city but not often eaten there | ||
*[[Hamburg]]er - a [[hamburger|sandwich]], named after the German city | *[[Hamburg]]er - a [[hamburger|sandwich]], named after the German city | ||
| + | *[[Wien]]er - a [[hot dog]] sausage named for the capital of Austria (German: Wien) | ||
*[[Parma]] [[Parma ham|ham]] | *[[Parma]] [[Parma ham|ham]] | ||
*[[Champagne (France)|Champagne]] - [[champagne]] | *[[Champagne (France)|Champagne]] - [[champagne]] | ||
Revision as of 13:22, March 30, 2009
- French fries
- Panama hat - not made in Panama (according to Ripley's Believe It Or Not)
- Buffalo wings - style of chicken made there
- Bermuda shorts
- Canadian bacon
- Dutch oven
- English muffin
- Frankfurter - a hot dog named after the German city but not often eaten there
- Hamburger - a sandwich, named after the German city
- Wiener - a hot dog sausage named for the capital of Austria (German: Wien)
- Parma ham
- Champagne - champagne
- Mayonnaise - mayonnaise after Mayon in Menorca
- Danish pastries - called Viennese Pastries there
- Vaudeville theater
- Ebola - virus
- Belgian waffles waffles
- Shanghai - a darts term meaning to hit the single, double and treble of the same number in three darts.
- Bombay mix - named after the old name for Mumbai.