Nothing to say

I couple days ago, GF met me for lunch at work.  She brought picnic-ins of the sandwich and salad variety.  There were also surprise cookies.  One of the cookies was a “German Chocolate cookie”.  I remember having german chocolate cake when I was younger.  Coconut goodness.  But I got to thinking…

I live in a sub-tropical climate that’s perfect for growing coconuts.  You can find them on the side of the road here, seriously.  They’re on the beach.  They’re everywhere.  Cheap as free, and more abundant than any wild fruit I’ve seen back home in the midwest.  Unless acorns count, but they don’t.  Coconuts like heat and humidity.  Both in good measure.  So what in the hell is German about coconuts?!  If you don’t know what I’m getting at, you should know that German Chocolate has 2 main ingredients: chocolate and coconut.  So what gives with the coconut?!

First thing I did was looked up coconut to see if it has any special German connection.  It doesn’t.  So I looked up German Chocolate to see where it comes from.  What I found was a great wikipedia entry on German Chocolate Cake.  The original recipe called for German’s Sweet Chocolate, which was produced by the Baker’s brand.  German isn’t the country of origin.  It’s the last name of the guy who created it.  He was in fact an Englishman.  German chocolate cake was first created in Texas.  Germany has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Of course, as with the origins of most things, this cake’s invention is disputed.  That’s not relevant to this inquiry, though, as I was only trying to figure out where the Germans came into the picture.  Regardless of the true origin of German chocolate, their lack of involvement in it is pretty obvious.

So now I can get back to life.  Whew.