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It's just an urban legend. Most people don't speak German so you can tell them anything you want :-). Speaking of which, good thing Kennedy never visited Hambu
by locallost 4y ago
It's just an urban legend. Most people don't speak German so you can tell them anything you want :-).
Speaking of which, good thing Kennedy never visited Hamburg.
- mc32 4y agoWell, you're in luck, he did visit Frankfurt.
- weard_beard 4y agoOr Frankfurt!
- HPsquared 4y agoI suppose that raises the question, if people from Berlin do indeed call themselves Berliners - do people from Hamburg call themselves Hamburgers? (genuine question)
- triceratops 4y agoYes. Hence also the names Frankfurter and Wiener (Wien is Vienna, in German).
- tasuki 4y agoI don't see why not. Hamburger means "of Hamburg". If you're thinking about the food item, it isn't a funny coincidence or anything, its name is derived from Hamburg. I'm not German nor a linguist, YMMV.
- Symbiote 4y agoYes. Compare "Danish" as an American term for a Viennese pastry, "he's Danish" doesn't sound odd. We don't generally abbreviate foods named after places, but: "Cheddar is 200 miles from both Sandwich and Stilton." These are all places in England.