Things named after places
From Conservapedia
- French fries
- Frankfurter - a hot dog named after the German city but not often eaten there
- Wiener - a hot dog sausage named for, Vienna, the capital of Austria (German: Wien)
- Hamburger - a sandwich, named after the German city
- Ebola River virus
- Panama hat - not made in Panama (according to Ripley's Believe It Or Not)
- Buffalo wings - style of deep fried chicken wings invented at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York
- Bermuda shorts
- Canadian bacon
- Dutch oven
- English muffin
- Hollywood Values - anti-Christian deceit foisted upon us by the liberal elite
- Wiener Schnitzel - a fried veal cutlet called "Viennese Schnitzel" in German
- Milanesa - a fried meat cutlet made in the "Milanese" style popular among Mexican-Americans
- Parma ham
- Champagne - named after Champagne, a region in France
- Mayonnaise - mayonnaise after Mayon in Menorca
- Danish pastries - called Viennese Pastries there
- Vaudeville theater
- Belgian 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.
- Bikini bathing suit - this was being promoted just after a hydrogen bomb test in the Bikini atoll in the Pacific, and that word was in the news. The promoters of the bathing suit thought that it would be a good name.