Things named after places
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- 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
- 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.