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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm here to ruin the joke: both the Russian and German word for "Emperor" are "named after" Caesar (Czar and Kaiser).

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And the salad after Caesar Cardini (Italian immigrant running a restaurant in Tijuana in 1924).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who was named after Gaius Julius Caesar in one way or another, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Technically Sextus, no?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wait until you learn about where the name of the month of July came from.

[–] RamblingPanda 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's not named after Julius Cesar, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your spelling of Cesar betrays french autocorrect, yet your name German/Alpine. So I'm guessing Swiss?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Poepleguessr

[–] RamblingPanda 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, but after his adopted son

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Who coincidentally liked to call himself "Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus" later in his life.

[–] RamblingPanda 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Subtility didn't run deep in this family.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

"Subtlety is my middle name. And also my first and last name in case they miss the point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Julie Andrews, close though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I wasn't aware you could get a diploma in yodelling

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I learned recently that Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Yup, at a hotel restaurant that ran out of ingredients during the dinner rush. Kitchen was like

well fuck… Okay, the manager ran to the store but it’ll take him like 15 more minutes to get back. We have an entire floor full of hungry patrons in the meantime. What do we have left? We have some lettuce, anchovies, olive oil, Worcestershire, some lemons, mustard, and a fucking block of Parmesan cheese… Oh I guess we also have some stale bread we could toast… What can we make with this?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Caesar Cardini rolls in his grave again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

He recently had ball bearings installed. So much smoother now!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

With the capitalisation as it is it sounds like Gardening Fürst Pückler was an expert on modern landscape, and I respect that 🤗.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Pückler Eis sucks tho

How about the Earl of Sandwich. That rocks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

And a code cipher

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t get the first one

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Simon Bolivar & Bolivia?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It is a good salad though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Outside English no one knows that b*tch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You forgot the smoothies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Justinian be like:

SO YOV ARE MAD BECAVSE THEY NAMED A SALAD AFTER YOV?