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  • #16
    Quoth Jester View Post
    Not sure if I'm repeating any,
    Ctrl+F is your friend!

    Quoth Jester View Post
    White Russian. (Cocktail.)
    Or someone from Belarus. Or apparently, some tasty nugs.

    German Potato Salad

    Spanish Rice

    Turkish Delight

    Mexican Jumping Beans

    Swedish Meatballs

    Swiss Bank Account

    My fun one of the day: Belgian Sandwich. Apparently this is only here in the Green Bay area? It's a slice of rye bread with a slice of onion, commonly seen at fish fries.

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    • #17
      Quoth sms001 View Post

      My fun one of the day: Belgian Sandwich. Apparently this is only here in the Green Bay area? It's a slice of rye bread with a slice of onion, commonly seen at fish fries.
      Never heard of it, and I'm half an hour away.

      Polish Flat, a kind of house commonly found in Milwaukee that looks like this or this.
      Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

      "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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      • #18
        French press coffee
        French Letter (euphimism for a condom)
        Swedish Steel (metal finish)
        Polish joke (not told in polite company)
        Nigerian scam
        Somalian pirates
        Persian rug (Persia being the old name for Iran)
        Yankee whaler
        Scottish dancing
        British Properties (community on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, across from Vancouver)
        Confederate Railroad (country music group - I know, the country no longer exists)
        to Welsh on a bet
        Prince of Wales
        Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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        • #19
          Quoth mathnerd View Post
          Anatolian Shepherd Dog
          Bernese Mountain Dog
          Chihuahua
          Dogue de Bordeaux
          Newfoundland
          Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
          Pyrenean Shepherd
          Rhodesian Ridgeback
          Siberian Husky
          Well done on your list, but technically the above are not nationalities. Just saying.

          "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
          Still A Customer."

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          • #20
            Quoth sms001 View Post
            Ctrl+F is your friend!
            Not on my iPad it isn't, as there is no such key!

            "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
            Still A Customer."

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            • #21
              Haitian Divorce
              Jamaica Inn
              and I suppose the Hungarian Horntail
              The Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.

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              • #22
                Quoth mathnerd View Post
                Dog themed:

                Newfoundland [i]actually Newfoundland Water Dog[/s]
                Rhodesian Ridgeback
                Quoth Jester View Post
                Well done on your list, but technically the above are not nationalities. Just saying.
                Technically these 2 qualify. Before 1949 (when it was absorbed into Canada) Newfoundland was a separate country. Also, Rhodesia still exists, having been renamed "Zimbabwe". Since you didn't comment on Seshat's "Prussian Blue" (Prussia was absorbed into Germany) and my "Persian rug" and "Confederate Railroad), absorbed/renamed/otherwise defunct countries should be fair game.

                Following on the absorbed/renamed theme:

                Texas bumper (the big flat chrome bumpers on some trucks)
                Texas Tea (crude oil)
                Siamese Twins (Siam is now known as Thailand)
                Siamese cat
                Bavarian purity law (restricting what can be used to make beer)
                Ceylon tea (Ceylon now known as Sri Lanka)

                Others I forgot in my earlier post:

                Dodge Monaco (full-size car from the '60s/early '70s)
                Columbian Gold (marijuana)
                Thai sticks (ditto)
                Scotch oatmeal (grains are steel-cut, rather than rolled - served cooked with salt but no sugar)
                Irish moss (seaweed used to make carageenan - a food additive)
                Australian rules football
                Tasmanian devil
                The Vatican Rag (Tom Lehrer song - and yes, the Vatican is a sovereign nation)
                Ukranian easter eggs
                Last edited by wolfie; 05-13-2014, 03:07 AM. Reason: clarification
                Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                • #23
                  Quoth wolfie View Post
                  Technically these 2 qualify. Before 1949 (when it was absorbed into Canada) Newfoundland was a separate country. Also, Rhodesia still exists, having been renamed "Zimbabwe".
                  I knew about Prussia and Persia. I did not know about Newfoundland. And as for the second one above, I was thinking of Rhodes, not Rhodesia, when I made that comment.

                  With former nations in play, I offer:

                  Byzantine art.
                  Byzantium.
                  Spartan accommodations.

                  "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                  Still A Customer."

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                  • #24
                    [Belgian Sandwich]
                    Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                    Never heard of it, and I'm half an hour away.
                    Yeah, right? Guy who told me about it said it was extremely local, but given that the bulk of the lowlanders seem to have settled toward the lake and east of GB, maybe that's not surprising?

                    Quoth Jester View Post
                    Not on my iPad it isn't, as there is no such key!
                    url textbox, find on this page then. Or the search box in the upper right.
                    Or just repeat 'em; can't see that it does any harm.


                    Quoth wolfie View Post
                    Texas .... the Vatican is a sovereign nation)
                    (Quickie clarification for those not into U.S. history minutiae: Texas was a sovereign state (a republic) from 1836(?) to '45/)


                    Sparked by Bavarian Purity Law and Ukranian Eggs:

                    Bavarian Cream and Russian Nesting Dolls.

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                    • #25
                      Greco-Roman wrestling.
                      English strawberries.
                      Georgia peaches. (Yes, I know that the Georgia famous for peaches is not its own sovereign state, but there IS a sovereign state that is named Georgia, so it works!)

                      Some beer styles named after countries that are not just produced in those countries. As in, these are the names of the actual styles themselves.

                      India Pale Ale.
                      English Bitter.
                      Scotch Ale.
                      Irish Stout.
                      American Hefeweizen.
                      Belgian Strong Ale.
                      Belgian Dubel.
                      Belgian Tripel.
                      Belgian Quad.
                      Belgian Witte.
                      Russian Imperial Stout.
                      Last edited by Jester; 05-14-2014, 01:40 PM.

                      "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                      Still A Customer."

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                      • #26
                        Ah and of course... Singapore Sling
                        The Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.

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                        • #27
                          Quoth Jester View Post
                          Some beer styles named after countries that are not just produced in those countries. As in, these are the names of the actual styles themselves.

                          India Pale Ale.
                          O/T, but for people not familiar with beer trivia, IPA got its name because it was a type of beer that could be shipped TO India without going bad. This was in the days of British rule, when beer was unpasteurized, there was no mechanical refrigeration, and long-distance travel was by sailing ship. Needless to say, the high hop content has a lot to do with the beer's durability.
                          Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                          • #28
                            Quoth Kit-Ginevra View Post
                            Ah and of course... Singapore Sling
                            D'oh! How did I miss that?

                            Along with Bahama Mama, Mexican Coffee, and Irish Coffee.

                            Quoth wolfie View Post
                            O/T, but for people not familiar with beer trivia, IPA got its name because it was a type of beer that could be shipped TO India without going bad. This was in the days of British rule, when beer was unpasteurized, there was no mechanical refrigeration, and long-distance travel was by sailing ship. Needless to say, the high hop content has a lot to do with the beer's durability.
                            Tell expound on this for people who don't know, India Pale Ales, despite their name, are indeed of British origin. To keep the beer from spoiling on those long trips to India, the brewers would go way overboard with the hops during brewing, as hops is a natural preservative. Well, naturally this made the beer super hoppy, and for some reason I will never fully understand, people developed a taste for these overhopped beers.

                            "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                            Still A Customer."

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                            • #29
                              What a Fun Game/Do I dare/Put in this form/The One/I Would Like to Share/Burma Shave



                              Mike
                              Meow.........

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                              • #30
                                Quoth JustaCashier View Post
                                Burma Shave


                                Nice one!

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