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TIL that after WW1, Americans dubbed sauerkraut “Liberty Lettuce” as a dig at German culture & Germans in general. In addition, the United States also banned German from being taught in schools, bars & saloons stopped selling pretzels, Dachshunds became “Liberty Pups, & German composers were banned.

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