• Blackout
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    311 month ago

    And German chocolate cake from Deutschschokoladenkuchen

    • NielsBohron
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      181 month ago

      Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can’t remember which) was named “German” and I think the original name was “German’s chocolate cake”

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        It’s also just a super German state from an immigration perspective. At the time, the Mexicans were very upset by all of the Europeans jumping the borders and taking work they didn’t particularly want anyway.

        • @TexasDrunk
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          131 month ago

          A lot of folks don’t realize that. We have cities like Fredericksburg and New Braunfels and events like Wurstfest and water parks like Schlitterbahn. We have Shiner Bock and Ziegenbock beer.

          There’s a lot of German heritage running around here.

          • faust
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            31 month ago

            Pretty heavily found in parts of Michigan and Ohio, too.

      • MacN'Cheezus
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        21 month ago

        Correct, the credit for that goes to Texas – the use of Coconut and Pecans should have given it away, those were very ingredients rare in Germany (still kinda are to this day).

        The first known instance of this recipe comes from a lady from Dallas, who named it after the brand of chocolate she was using to make it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake