What do they call german chocolate cake in germany, i wonder
then again it's not named after the country so maybe it won't matter
@Felthry I've never seen that so I'm guessing it'd just be called chocolate cake
@noiob The "german" part of german chocolate cake is the icing. it's chocolate cake with buttercream icing but with coconut flakes mixed into the icing
it's really good
despite the name german it's named after a person with afawk no connection to the country of germany, just happened to ahve the last name german
@Felthry yeah but I doubt anyone here would know what it is so people would probably use a generic name
a propos, do you know we have a baked good called "Amerikaner" (American) that has nothing to do with America?
@noiob no, but I'm not surprised at all.
@Felthry they're apparently called "black and white cookies" elsewhere, the German name comes from "Ammonikaner" because of the leavening agent ammonium bicarbonate
now it *would* be weird if they translated german as though it were the demonym and not a personal name, but I strongly doubt that would happen