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Fact of the day: Wiener are strictly called Frankfurter in Vienna because their inventor was a German who moved to Austria.

• haunter 4y ago
  Bologna sausage is Lyoner (from Lyon) [0] in german, and parizer (from Paris) [1] in hungarian 0, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyoner https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyoner 1, https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parizer https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parizer
  • tcmb 4y ago
    And a 'Pariser' is a condom in German.
    • Archelaos 4y ago
      And "Hamburger" is a person from Hamburg, where the "u" is pronounced ⟨u⟩ like in engl. "boot". (The same pronounciation btw. as in the German surname "Trump".)
• DocTomoe 4y ago
  Ironically, Frankfurter in Germany refers to another kind of sausage made of beef (originally invented to circumvent jewish food laws against consuming pork), which has absolutely nothing to do with Wiener (or vienna "Frankfurter")
• the_mitsuhiko 4y ago
  Even weirder fact: at the time it was not legal to mix pork and beef in Germany because there were different trade licenses for both meet types. Supposedly mixing in beef was thus first done in Vienna.
• Torwald 4y ago
  The dominant Portuguese manufacturer Nobre has adopted the Austrian notation. e.g. https://www.emporiopt.ch/content/uploads/2021/08/salsichanobrelata-4.jpg https://www.emporiopt.ch/content/uploads/2021/08/salsichanob...
• csours 4y ago
  Danish Pastries are called Austrian Pastries in Denmark. In Austria they are called Pastries.