Be aware, they're "Wiener" sausages in Germany, but "Frankfurter" in Austria. Same product though.
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There are also Nürnberger, a small Bratwurst.
Also, a lot of breweries resp. their beers are either called like the city they're from, or shortened to it.
Examples would be Tegernseer Hell, Erdinger Dunkel, and so on. There are likely hundreds like that all over Germany.
Berliner: a jelly doughnut
Amerikaner: a kind of pastry
Not a food, but Pariser is another word for condom.
Edit: Note that many of these depend on the regional dialect. People in Berlin say Pfannkuchen instead of Berliner.
But we all now that people in Berlin don't know that they are wrong about that one.
Lyoner, a type of sausage.
Kasseler, a type of meat.
The cinnamon roll, schnecke, is named after the town where the inventor's slimy ex-girlfriend lived.
Everybody repeated it already, but it's Schnecke (the first e is short), not Schneke (which doesn't exist, but the first e would be long).
Oh whoops, fixed
Why slimy? Where can I find this story?
schnecke is a really weird term of endearment
it's bullshit. Schneke just means snail, because the pastry looks like a snail.
Brioche Parisienne is a pastry that was invented – you guessed it, of course – in Venice, Italy.
Spaghetti Bolognese is a dish that comes from – you knew this, I'm sure – Germany.
Jaffa Cookies, named after the Israeli port city, are obviously a British specialty.
And Russian Bread was naturally invented by Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm Hanke.