On: The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic

[mikeash]

Funny how it works perfectly fine for "I am a Frankfurter," but I can't see it working for "I am a Wiener."

[dublinben → mikeash]

Unsurprisingly, wieners are called frankfurters in Wien (Vienna).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiener_W%C3%BCrstchen

[comrade_ogilvy → mikeash]

A Wiener might be a person from Wien, Osterreich (which translates to Vienna, Austria in English).

[mikeash → comrade_ogilvy]

I know, but at least when rendered in English, "I am a Wiener" does not work to indicate a city.

[dublinben → mikeash]

The correct English transliteration would be more like "vienner" which pretty closely follows the common English practice of adding an -er suffix to denote someone's place of origin.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/er_4