You might make your German Chocolate Cake with Baker's Chocolate, a popular American brand of baking chocolate, named for Dr. William Baker, who founded a chocolate importing company.

Not so much you might, but you most likely would have used Baker's chocolate: Mr. German, the baker/chocolatier, worked for Baker's chocolate when he invented his dark chocolate formulation, and German's chocolate was sold under the Baker's Chocolate brand. All this took place over 150 yrs ago.

The cake made from German's chocolate was invented by a housewife in the 1950's and the recipe published in a newspaper; General Foods, by then the owner of Bakers, took notice and started to include the recipe in its packaging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baker_%26_Company

This sounds like one of those explinations for how they make Starbursts so juicy.

except it was just a factual description of history, condensed, but taut and clarifying of possible misconceptions, and nothing about recipes or flavors or any other organileptic properties.

I get the impression that my comment came across as an insult. If so, that was not my intent.

Not to sound like I'm on Reddit, but in the category of surprising and infuriating, this one takes the cake.

That's a great one