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“Krapfen has its origins in Austria "berliner" in Germany, it is a typical Carnival doughnut with a ball shape, fried in deeph oil, powdered with sugar and filled with jam, cream or vanilla custard.”
“SORENSEN: Apparently, I didn't know all I should have known about it, because some people say that a "berliner" is a jelly doughnut.”
“Ich bin eine berliner, I bawl back, replete with JFK's grammatical error that turns me into a doughnut instead of a resident of the Prussian capital.”
“Wait wait... can we have ANOTHER comment explaining the JFK berliner/ein berliner faux pas, please?”
“The first thing I did when I was in Germany last week was consume a berliner.”
“Wait wait... can we have ANOTHER comment explaining the JFK berliner/ein berliner faux pas, please?”
“Having little German myself, I'd kind of hoped "fliegend Fekalie" was, well, what one should take at a rolling berliner.”
“One berliner and one bratwurst, sliced and topped withred and whitecabbage (sauerkraut), grilled onions and German potatoes, plus a small soup and a roll ($9).”
“Ich bin ein berliner" JFK 3. When a nation has been "artificially" divided, it's OK to ignore restrictions on freedom of movement within the nation's "true borders.”
The Economics and Philosophy of the Wall, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Not to mention fruit additions to krieks and lambics and wheat beers and berliner weisses.”
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Place names that have entered general speech. Toponyms that interest me in other ways are on Place Names Of Distinction
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sionnach Ich bin ein irrer Ire. Dec 1, 2007
reesetee Trivet, funny video! :-) I'd always heard it had to do with whether the article "ein" was used before the word. On the other hand, why it should become such a legend when Jimmy Carter's mistranslated "carnal lust" episode hasn't is beyond me. ;-) Dec 1, 2007
sionnach I agree that "ich bin ein Berliner" has attained legendary status. Occasionally the History Channel (aka the Hitlery Channel) or the Discovery Channel will run a program about the history of Berlin from 1945 onwards, always including the clip of that JFK speech - it remains extraordinarily moving, even after repeated viewing. And Berliners still retain a huge amount of residual good will towards Americans to a degree that would be hard to find anywhere else in Europe.
I have a particular soft spot for the city and its people, having worked there every summer while I was in college and studied there for a year, living just two blocks from the Wall. The only book of Leon Uris that I ever found even halfway palatable was the one about the Berlin airlift - generally I found his insistence on couching all his stories in crudely broad-brush, good guy/bad guy terms irritating and reductive. In the case of the Berlin airlift it didn't seem completely inappropriate though.
Ooh, I could go for a currywurst right about now. Dec 1, 2007
chained_bear I did not know this was considered an urban legend. Very interesting reading--thanks.
Also, bilby, I love your last comment, "a few presidents since then..." Too right. Dec 1, 2007
trivet More here. Dec 1, 2007
bilby I tried this on a few people when I lived in the former East Germany and generally they opined that Kennedy had not said he was a jelly doughnut. The video footage of the speech appears to bear this out as the crowd do not roll about laughing when he says it. Not like I did when I first heard it :-) In any case, the fact that there's a reasonable amount of interest in what he implied - we know what he said - so many years later means that it has attained legendary status.
Unfortunately there have been a few Presidents since then who really were jelly doughnuts and did not have the grace to admit it. Nov 30, 2007
sionnach Well, sometimes Wikipedia is even more annoying than Weirdnet. when I lived in Berlin, all of my German friends agreed that Kennedy's inclusion of the indefinite article was incorrect, albeit unimportant.
Also, I'm not sure I would classify this as an urban legend - there is no dispute about what he actually said.
Regional and temporal variation in The naming of baked goods is an issue I'm not going to touch with a ten-foot pole. In 1974, in Westphalia, "Berliner" did mean jelly doughnut, but by now the meaning could have morphed to "a snail-shaped contraceptive device to be used by men". Nov 30, 2007
bilby Thanks WeirdNET. Also a jam-filled doughnut made famous by John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" and the fascinating, humorous urban legend that has grown up around this line. Nov 30, 2007