Re: [OM] OT: Ich bin ein Zuik (was "Still OT but it's my turn")

[Barks]

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
> > Let's see if I can guess your meaning. A "berliner" is some sort of
> > pastrie? Is a bagel referred to as a "New Yorker" out east?  News to me.
> > Anyway, if I were president I'd stay out of Frankfurt and Hamburg.
>
> It was once explained to me, though this is possibly apocryphal, that a
> "berliner" *would* be the Berlin equivalent of a frankfurter, i.e. some
> sort of sausage whose origin is peculiar to Berlin.  So a "New Yorker"
> would be something whose origins are inextricably associated with New
> York, I'd guess.
>
> --
I think that a 'Berliner'  is a sort of doughnut in that part of Germany.

Chris

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Chris Barker
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