Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "The TRUTH about JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech | Feli from Germany" video.

At that time, the Berliner didn't even know, there is a donut named after them. Cause they themselves don't call this thing a Berliner. People from Munich, like Felicia do it. It's a regional term, and to missinterpret it, can only be stupid joke. A New Yorker can also be a merchant chain or a inhabitant of NYC, and nobody will ever mix this up.
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@helgaioannidis9365 However, this discussion is stupid. everybody knows a Hamburger can be food or a human, and the same is for a Berliner. There is no way of saying it wrong. If you say you are a berliner, you certainly don't mean you are something to eat.
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@celinerippl6466 Let's end this stupid discussion. If somebody says "I'm a Hamburger" nobody says he is food. Who set this stupid idea into the world ? It's a bad joke, nothing else.
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@sensei48 Thanks for clarification. Hadn't expected this has really gone that political, more like a bad joke of some Comedian. I'm born in 69 and haven't experienced this shock (of building the wall) personally. For me it was like "it's always there", and it has been the West-Berliners, who called themselve the "Free Berlin", cause they could go where they wanted to go. The people around Berlin (me) were the trapped people. I think nobody realized this, in 1963. The so called iron curtain was like prison bars for the east part of Europe. The westerner could pass, if they wanted to.
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It's as stupid as assuming, starbucks sells a buck from the stars. It's not dependent from any mood, to think like that (in serious). Either it's a cheap joke or an absolute idiot. I excuse the Americans who take the joke for serious, they can't know it better. It's the same as with a Frankfurter. Can be a human living in Frankfurt, can be a sausage. So what ? Do we discuss if one says "I am a Hamburger". Funny for Americans, Normal for Germans.
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@helgaioannidis9365 That has nothing to do with Mixing up a Krapfen with the population of Berlin. Both is a Berliner. Two Meanings. Two Meanings is something else than one meaning.
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