[spanxx]

> Spanish flu of 1918

It was not Spanish. It's origins come from the battlefields of WWI.

[RmDen]

Everyone knows it as the Spanish flu.. it's called like that because the Spanish newspapers didn't censor these deaths like the other countries that were busy with World War I

[tntn]

Next you're probably going to tell me about French fries, right?

[simonh]

Freedom Fries

[derefr]

Hawaiian pizza does not come from Hawaii, and yet that is still its proper name (in English, at least.)