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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm here to ruin the joke: both the Russian and German word for "Emperor" are "named after" Caesar (Czar and Kaiser).

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And the salad after Caesar Cardini (Italian immigrant running a restaurant in Tijuana in 1924).

[–] trollercoaster 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who was named after Gaius Julius Caesar in one way or another, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Technically Sextus, no?

[–] agentshags 2 points 2 weeks ago

🤫 shh, they gonna ban the salad now for being to DEI woke or some shit

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wait until you learn about where the name of the month of July came from.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's not named after Julius Cesar, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your spelling of Cesar betrays french autocorrect, yet your name German/Alpine. So I'm guessing Swiss?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Poepleguessr

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, but after his adopted son

[–] trollercoaster 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Who coincidentally liked to call himself "Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus" later in his life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Subtility didn't run deep in this family.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

"Subtlety is my middle name. And also my first and last name in case they miss the point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Julie Andrews, close though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I wasn't aware you could get a diploma in yodelling

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I learned recently that Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, at a hotel restaurant that ran out of ingredients during the dinner rush. Kitchen was like

well fuck… Okay, the manager ran to the store but it’ll take him like 15 more minutes to get back. We have an entire floor full of hungry patrons in the meantime. What do we have left? We have some lettuce, anchovies, olive oil, Worcestershire, some lemons, mustard, and a fucking block of Parmesan cheese… Oh I guess we also have some stale bread we could toast… What can we make with this?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Caesar Cardini rolls in his grave again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

He recently had ball bearings installed. So much smoother now!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

With the capitalisation as it is it sounds like Gardening Fürst Pückler was an expert on modern landscape, and I respect that 🤗.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] zqps 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And a code cipher

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Pückler Eis sucks tho

How about the Earl of Sandwich. That rocks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t get the first one

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Simon Bolivar & Bolivia?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It is a good salad though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You forgot the smoothies

[–] trollercoaster 1 points 2 weeks ago

Justinian be like:

SO YOV ARE MAD BECAVSE THEY NAMED A SALAD AFTER YOV?