I was thinking about it and we, as americans, name a lot of food after a specific culture. Sometimes it's for good reason, sometimes it's not.
Take a Canadian Bacon for instance, most canadian's I've talked to just call it ham. It's real origin is from what some Canadian's call "Back Bacon."
Or take French Fries, although they are named French, their origin is not from France. It's actually from England where "to French" something is to cut it lengthwise. It's original pronunciation was ?frenched and fried potatoes.? The french on other hand call them "pommes de terre", so they do infact eat them.
Another example, French Toast, it's origin points back to France in which they call it "Pain Perdu" which means "Lost Bread." It was called French Toast first in the French Quarter of New Orleans as it was made from stale french bread.
Another example, Baked Alaskan, has nothing to do with Alaska. It is a made from Sponge cake covered with Ice Cream with a layer of stiffly beaten egg whites on top, then brown in the oven. It's origin date back to American physicist Benjamin Thompson in 1804 in which he made a dish called Omelet surprise which is identical to Baked Alaskan. In 1867 a chef by the name of Charles Ranhofer made a dish to honor the purchase of Alaska by naming a new disk Alaska-Florida Cake, but soon changed the name to Baked Alaskan.
I could go on, but I'm sure you are bored by now... anyone else have any other good example of this?
Jugs
Take a Canadian Bacon for instance, most canadian's I've talked to just call it ham. It's real origin is from what some Canadian's call "Back Bacon."
Or take French Fries, although they are named French, their origin is not from France. It's actually from England where "to French" something is to cut it lengthwise. It's original pronunciation was ?frenched and fried potatoes.? The french on other hand call them "pommes de terre", so they do infact eat them.
Another example, French Toast, it's origin points back to France in which they call it "Pain Perdu" which means "Lost Bread." It was called French Toast first in the French Quarter of New Orleans as it was made from stale french bread.
Another example, Baked Alaskan, has nothing to do with Alaska. It is a made from Sponge cake covered with Ice Cream with a layer of stiffly beaten egg whites on top, then brown in the oven. It's origin date back to American physicist Benjamin Thompson in 1804 in which he made a dish called Omelet surprise which is identical to Baked Alaskan. In 1867 a chef by the name of Charles Ranhofer made a dish to honor the purchase of Alaska by naming a new disk Alaska-Florida Cake, but soon changed the name to Baked Alaskan.
I could go on, but I'm sure you are bored by now... anyone else have any other good example of this?
Jugs
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