Default User wrote:
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> Victor Sack wrote:
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> > Mark Thorson > wrote:
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> > > Victor Sack wrote:
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> > > > Okay, I'll bite and indulge you yet again: there is no such salad
> > > > in Germany. There is no such thing as a (pan-)German salad,
> > > > anyway, and none of the numerous regional versions contain brown
> > > > sugar.
> > >
> > > German potato salad is an American invention.
> >
> > Exactly. Yet, some people posting here seem(ed) to be of a different
> > persuasion for the longest time.
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> Wikipedia says German potato salad originated in southern Poland. Usual
> caveats apply.

Southern Poland was a part of Germany.