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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

“I am a jelly donut.”

— President John F. Kennedy Jr.

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

Is there a way to say you're a "Berliner" or can you only say "from Berlin"?

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That’s technically what he said, but a donut called krapfen is also very commonly called a Berliner. I am from Berlin (Ich komme aus Berlin) is the more common way to say it.

So he wasn’t really wrong, so much as it was funny colloquially.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Actually there are many words for this specific German kind of donut. Krapfen is common, where I live it's Kreppel. Since it's arguably the Berlin way of pancake (Berliner Pfannkuchen), in Berlin it's just called Pfannkuchen and in some spaces it's called Berliner.

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