People from Hamburg are definitely Hamburgers, but you are only a true Hamburger if your grandparents were born there.

People from Frankfurt are also Franfurters.

However, children from Brussels are not Brussel Sprouts.

Are people from Crete, Cretins?
And people from Malta maltesers?

;-)

Muck

And "freedom fries" was really unnecessary because US English French fries originate from Belgium.

I my speech "Danish" is viineri. Stem is Wien.

Maltesers: yummy chocolate balls filled with a light filling. You can buy them in the candy / sweet aisle at any grocery store.

Hi

I think the danish that you are talking about is called "winerbrød" here in Norway. According to Wikipedia "In the Scandinavian countries (including Denmark) it is called wienerbrød or wienerbröd (Viennese bread) after the itinerant Viennese bakers who brought their pastry skills to Scandinavia."
and
"In Wien (Vienna) it is called "Kopenhagener Gebäck" which means "Copenhagen bread"."

But it doesn't matter what it is called as long as you enjoy it

Regards
Gard
http://gardkarlsen.com - trip reports and pictures

What you call an English Muffin bears no resemblence to a muffin that we English eat.

In fact I don't think we've got a word for those little cakes.

I like the fact that they're made by Otis Spunkmeyer though. That's funny.

Budman : "Why do they call it "Filet American" when it's nothing more than raw ground beef with an egg and some spices?" Do they ? (Who ? ) Sounds like what we call steak tartare.

There are no virgins in the Virgin Islands.

So what are people from Wank in Austria called?

Geordie

Austrians

Geordie

What about people from here....?

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genIn...ocIndex=267574

caroline_edinburgh, in Belgium.

Gosh really ? How interesting !

English muffins = crumpets
French toast = pain perdu (or what we call eggy bread)

The Americans have something called London broil.
I'm sure that no Londoner has ever heard of it.

Also, creme brulee originated at Trinity College Cambridge.

Fish and chips are supposed to be a sort of Marks and Spencer thing.
In London, Jews sold fried fish and Belgians sold fried potatoes. A Jew and a Belgian suddenly had a brainwave and Robert is your proverbial

So what do they call what we call muffins?

And when we had parties in Holland where everyone brought something, it was called an American party. NOT going Dutch!

And yes, in Belgium filet americain is raw finely ground beef.

In Australia, English muffins are English-English muffins and crumpets are English crumpet-crumpets.

However, the American version of the crumpet is rather dry and not as tasty!

Liz
ozmum.com

Syphillis in Paris: "English Pox"

Syphillis in London: "French Pox"

and unfortunately for some it doesn't seem to have changed much over time.

Has anyone ever found an English muffin in England?