Things named after places

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• 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.