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Yep. And the best is: in Turkish language a turkey is called "hindi" (meaning India). And both of those words for the bird, turkey or hindi, come from the fact
by henearkr 4y ago
Yep. And the best is: in Turkish language a turkey is called "hindi" (meaning India).
And both of those words for the bird, turkey or hindi, come from the fact that in medieval times people where mixing up India, Middle-East, and America together, and thought of it as just "India".
So the bird was named after the country.
Thus, Frankurt should rename itself too, right? I mean, it's the same as a sausage, what a shame booo.
- prmoustache 4y agoIn portuguese the word for the bird is peru, probably for similar reason.
- laumars 4y agoThere are several sausages that share the prefix “Frankfurters” such as Frankfurter Würstchen (which is the hotdog style sausage that Americans have shortened to just “Frankfurter”). In fact it’s not just sausages that have that name, there’s also a cake called “Frankfurter Kranz”. And why do all these dishes have that name? Because they are specialities believed to have originated from Frankfurt am Main. In other words, they got their name from the city. This is pretty common to. In the U.K. we have Cornish Pasty, Yorkshire Pudding, English Breakfast, Scottish Breakfast. There’s Eccles Cake, welsh Cake, Bath buns, Chelsea Buns and Bakewell Tarts. You can get Irish Coffee and Irish Stew. Americans have no shortage of the same too. Like Mississippi Mud Pie.
- lstodd 4y agodon't forget hamburgers