On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Let's see if I can guess your meaning. A "berliner" is some sort of
> pastrie? Is a bagel referred to as a "New Yorker" out east? News to me.
> Anyway, if I were president I'd stay out of Frankfurt and Hamburg.
It was once explained to me, though this is possibly apocryphal, that a
"berliner" *would* be the Berlin equivalent of a frankfurter, i.e. some
sort of sausage whose origin is peculiar to Berlin. So a "New Yorker"
would be something whose origins are inextricably associated with New
York, I'd guess.
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