Talk:Monkey bread

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Interesting article. I am German and spent most of my life in Germany, but I have never heard of this. Germans usually don't eat cake or treats for breakfast. Could you please doublecheck how relevant this breakfast item is? There isn't even an article about Affenbrot in the German WP. I haven't checked but I admit that it might be some regional specialty. When I found Affenbrot mentionned even in the breakfast-article, I found it kind of misleading. --Stilfehler 13:34, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

It will take me a while to go back and view the Good Eats episode, but you are free to verify yourself. Also, multiple trivial references equate Affenbrot with Monkey Bread in recipe sites, and the recipes for Affentbrot in German are substantially as the English-language recipes for Monkey Bread. I don't know what occasions the German speaking people were serving their Affenbrot recipes. This article does not claim that the Germans eat it for breakfast, just that Monkey Bread has a German name. There was an Affenbrot article in the German WP that was deleted, but I don't know what it said. Here in America Monkey Bread has reliable sources and coverage in a nationally recognized Food Network program. Also this is a redirect from an Affenbrot article which was a WP:COATRACK for promoting somebody's bed and breakfast, and they claimed the Germans eat Affenbrot/ Monkey Bread for breakfast all the time. I took out the claim (because I lived in Germany, too and saw no breakfast pastries of any kind), took out the advertising, made a Monkey Bread article with reliable sources, and here we are. Americans eat Monkey Bread as a breakfast treat. That and the fact that it has a German name are verifiable.OfficeGirl 23:58, 14 September 2007 (UTC)