It is certainly a blessing that John F. Kennedy did not make his Ich bin ein Berliner speech in Hamburg. It is odd though, that no one alerted him to his idiomatic faux pas: he should have said Ich bin Berliner. Ein Berliner refers to a local pastry: at that crucial moment in the Cold War, the President of the United States was actually saying I am a cookie.
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