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Just read up on the various names for this:

Pain au chocolate, in that barbarous faux-French /pæn əʊ ʃɒkəʊlɑ/

Careful: a man once died for calling it [pæ̃ o ʃokola] instead of [ʃokolaˈtinə].

I'd call it gross, but I then I don't like chocolate, so... :p

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Holy shit what is that article. I mean I've seen an old man yell at a girl for not calling a pastry the local name, but that was general Berliner grumpiness.

Pain o' chocolate is called Schokobrötchen "chocolate bun" here, in case anyone wonders. Or Schokocroissant even though it isn't technically a croissant, but Schokobrötchen is also this.

The only term I've ever heard for that is "chocolate croissant".

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It's from Le Gorafi, a satirical news site. Basically a French The Onion.

Yeah, I basically had a Frenchman pick a fight with me on Facebook because I teased him for referring to pain au chocolat as "le vrai nom" as if we were living in some mediaeval philosophical paradigm. He immediately took me for a chocolatiniste when really, as we say where I come from, I don't have a dog in this fight.

The Onion could make a similar article about a Californian man getting killed for ordering a "soda" in the Midwest.

Never heard/seen it called anything other than 'pain au chocolate'. Though I'd probably say it something like /p{~ oU SQkQlA:/.

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I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

Thinking about it, I probably do say /ʃɒkɒlɑ/ as well, maybe /ə/ in the second syllable.

But it would miss the mark since millions of people native to the Midwest say "soda". (I know this because I'm one of them--and Onion staff would know this, too, since although their offices are in Chicago, not all of them are from here.)

IME, Midwesterners don't get het up about what you call certain foods. Some do get irrationally excited about how you prepare certain foods, as typified by how easy it is to troll Chicagoans with any mention of ketchup on hotdogs. But Philadelphians get at least as worked up over what kind of cheese you can put on a cheesesteak, so I think this is more a big-city thing than anything.

Wait, what? How are you supposed to eat a hot dog in Chicago then?

Aside from the soda/pop distinction, I think I agree with you.

(Soda is the correct word, by the way)

I've lived in Chicago for thirty years. I still call it "soda". I remember getting teased for that once or twice in college, when everyone's getting used to everyone else's accents. Literally no one else has ever cared.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_hot_dog

Well, if you have all that in a hot dog, then you certainly don't need ketchup. Oh, Americans and messy-ass food...

Here in the Milwaukee area, the word is soda, and saying anything else marks you as not being from here.

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Hey, it's better than messy ass-food!

I would take grilled chicken ass over that hot dog any day.

This is in accord with the American national character. Like the electric guitar, and NASCAR, and President Trump.

However, the Correct hot dog preparation is with sauerkraut.

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Sauerkraut is for sausages that can stand up to it, like brats and kielbasa. Why would you waste it on a hotdog?

The correct hot dog preparation is to throw it in the garbage and get some real meat. :p *sigh* Now I'm going to crave lamb kebabs all day--not that I don't anyway. (Is one good Middle Eastern restaurant in my city too much to ask?)

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New question: You make plans with someone and then they don't show up. What verb(s) would you use to describe what they did?

Boringly, "not show up".

I would probably use the same. I would also accept "flake out," "ghost," and "stand me up."