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sohi-
Yes.
It's a joke on the JFK speech and the whole donut thing. We have really fun pr people here!!!
A jam filled donut is a Berliner everywhere, but in Berlin it's a Pfannkuchen.
But then a Pfannkuchen is a pancake and so on.I just go to the expensive vegan donut place nowadays because I got grumbled at more than once when my south German/swiss past got obvious.
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Absolutely delightful
c.h.e.
youramericanlover
Ok I wikipedia'd it and apparently it was just JFK's Bahstin accent (and some apocryphal reporting) that circulated the misconception