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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That’s technically what he said, but a donut called krapfen is also very commonly called a Berliner. I am from Berlin (Ich komme aus Berlin) is the more common way to say it.

So he wasn’t really wrong, so much as it was funny colloquially.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Actually there are many words for this specific German kind of donut. Krapfen is common, where I live it's Kreppel. Since it's arguably the Berlin way of pancake (Berliner Pfannkuchen), in Berlin it's just called Pfannkuchen and in some spaces it's called Berliner.