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English Muffin....

We thought it was from England, but it's actually from New York.
Samuel Bath Thomas actually called his creation "toaster crumpets" when he debuted them at his New York bakery, which opened in 1880. The term English muffin came later.
 

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German Chocolate Cake...

The man who invented this was not German, but his name was. Boston baker Sam German created a new type of baking chocolate for Baker Chocolate Company in 1852. 100 years later a Dallas paper popularized the recipe for German Chocolate Cake.
 

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Fortune Cookie...
Thought it was from China but it's actually from California. Tweaking a Japanese recipe, Makoto Hagiwari claims his San Francisco teahouse invented the modern paper-stuffed fortune cookie in 1914; David Jung says it was his Los Angeles noodle shop in 1918.
Your fortune says: Only fools go to war over cookies.
 
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