I am a jelly doughnut...

[Wetzelbill]

Thank you all.

[Droopy]

1. I suppose you want us to eat you.

[Wetzelbill]

2. or help me win the Cold War

either way, I'm cool.

[otherlander]

17. How d'ya win?

:popcorn:

[InternalDialogue]

20. The only way to win this game...

...is not to play in the first place.

[krispos42]

3. If you were Boston Cream, I'd be interested

But jelly.... nah, I'm good.

[Wetzelbill]

4. originally I was, I suppose back in the states I am

it's complex.

[BuelahWitch]

5. Is this a reference to "Ich bin ein Berliner"?

:shrug: This guy says he didn't say that:

http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth06.htm


"...Part of the problem here stems from the fact that in statements of nationality or citizenship, German often leaves off the "ein." But in Kennedy's statement, the "ein" was correct and expressed that he was "one" of them. Over the years there have been translation or interpreting errors with U.S. public officials abroad, but this isn't one of them..."

[CBHagman]

6. Thank you!

I'm getting a little weary of the jelly doughnut legend. Anyone who's seen the footage knows that the Germans roared their approval at JFK's words.

However, I was none too crazy about JFK's pronunciation. Bill Clinton did a much better job inserting a German phrase into a speech. But maybe it's all down to instructional techniques for pronunciation, huh?

[BuelahWitch]

7. You are welcome

I don't know if I wandered into one of those "it's not what it seems" Lounge threads, but I thought I would participate anyway.

[Wetzelbill]

16. sort of

Once Pearl Jam was in front of a huge German crowd and Eddie Vedder goes: "I don't know what else to say, except I am a doughnut."

So I am making fun of Eddie Vedder who was making fun of the JFK urban legend.

But mainly I am a fuck off, so I'm pretty much doing that. :)

[Gormy Cuss]

8. Homer? Is that you?

[Hand]

10. Dang! Ya beat me to it! nt

[Forkboy]

9. "Did he just say he was donut?"

[Shakespeare]

11. He's a donut....a fuckin' donut....

I am a hamburger, a frankfurter and a donut!

[taterguy]

12. WWJD: We want jelly doughnuts

[jmowreader]

13. Berliners knew what he meant

The jelly doughnut can be called a "Berliner," a "Pfannkuchen" or a "Bismarken." In Berlin they're called Pfannkuchen (which means pancake) because there's a legend that a cook in an artillery unit many hundreds of years ago was tasked to invent a pancake that the cannon cockers could eat while they fired missions. Obviously counterbattery fire had not been invented yet.

This gentleman decided the perfect pancake for fire missions would have the topping on the inside, so he created this enclosed pancake with plum jam in it so you could eat it with the pancake in one hand and the lanyard in the other. And because he was from Berlin, they named the pancake in his honor--the Berliner Pancake.

It's also called the Bismark because Count Bismark was the Berliners' hero and they named this wonderful dish in his honor...of course, since the count didn't like sweets he probably wouldn't have eaten them anyway, but them's the breaks.

Trust me, evilDUers, when someone stands in front of Rathaus Schoneberg with thousands of weary Berliners in front of him and says he's a Berliner, no one there thought he was claiming to be pastry.

[Wetzelbill]

14. yeah I was more or less doing the Eddie Vedder thing

I'm down with JFK. :)

[Shakespeare]

15. Izzard. Eddie IZZARD.

Vedder could never be that funny. ;-)

[Wetzelbill]

18. no Eddie Vedder did it too

Izzard does it as part of his act. Vedder did it at a Pearl Jam show in '96.

[Deja Q]

19. And I am a big banana.

:P :D