On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:02:12 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:

> Default User wrote:
>>
>> Victor Sack wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Thorson > wrote:
>>>
>>> > Victor Sack wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > 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.
>>
>> Wikipedia says German potato salad originated in southern Poland. Usual
>> caveats apply.
>
> Southern Poland was a part of Germany.

there's a joke along the lines of 'eskimos have a thousand words for snow':

'germans have a word for invading poland in the winter when it's snowing,
in the spring when it's raining, or in summer when it's hot...'

your pal,
blake