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By including the indefinite article "ein," he supposedly changed the meaning of the sentence from the intended "I am a citizen of Berlin" to "I am a Berliner" (a Berliner being a type of German pastry, similar to a jam- or jelly-filled doughnut), amusing Germans throughout the city. However, this is incorrect from both a grammatical perspective ...
German is a highly precise language and "Berliner Pfannkuchen" means jelly donut, and "Berliner" means "(male) denizen of Berlin." Any controversy to the contrary is purely a media fabrication. 65.29.47.55 08:56, 25 January 2011 (UTC) Your German knowledge is rather limited. Berliner is a perfectly common word to refer to jelly doughnut.
1 "Jelly doughnut" urban legend (the long version) 1 comment. ... 16 comments. 3 Edited the donut legend, cut alot of irelevant information, did this and that. 4 ...
I absolutely remember reading an account of JFK’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” as meaning “I am a jelly doughnut” in the early 1970s in some book about either linguistics or misconceptions. (The actual book is probably at my dad's place across the country.) 73.223.3.143 ( talk ) 08:30, 12 May 2023 (UTC) [ reply ]
Jelly Roll talks about where his name came from and love of doughnuts in a new Dunkin' ad to celebrate National Doughnut Day.
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John F. Kennedy's words "Ich bin ein Berliner" are standard German for "I am a Berliner", meaning a person from Berlin. Mentioned in Len Deighton 's 1983 novel Berlin Game , an urban legend has it that due to his use of the indefinite article ein , Berliner is translated as "jelly doughnut", and that the population of Berlin was amused by the ...
The first record of a jelly doughnut appeared in a German cookbook published in 1485. It is uncertain whether or not that was the precise date of the jelly doughnut's invention. Known then as Gefüllte Krapfen , it spread throughout Europe over the next century, sometimes with other fillings considering sugar and jelly was sparsely found at the ...