I love European bakeries. In Budapest to Vienna we found mostly cakes in the bakeries, but in Berlin we finally find what I have been looking for: European pastries! What we in the US generally call donuts appears to be more of a western-European thing. But in this display is an “Amerikaner” donut. I buy one but find this to be like nothing I have seen in America. So why the name? After some thought, I have the answer: this is Berlin joke. John F. Kennedy, when he visited the Berlin Wall in 1963 said “Ich bin ein Berliner” which literally means “I am a jelly donut” since that is what a “Berliner” means in German (I am from Berlin would be “Ich bin Berlin”). So, among the Berliner donuts, this bakery has an “Amerikaner”!