<P> A reference to this misconception appears in Len Deighton's spy novel Berlin Game, published in 1983, which contains the following passage, spoken by Bernard Samson: </P> <P>' Ich bin ein Berliner,' I said . It was a joke . A Berliner is a doughnut . The day after President Kennedy made his famous proclamation, Berlin cartoonists had a field day with talking doughnuts . </P> <P> In Deighton's novel, Samson is an unreliable narrator, and his words cannot be taken at face value . However, The New York Times' review of Deighton's novel appeared to treat Samson's remark as factual and added the detail that Kennedy's audience found his remark funny: </P> <P> Here is where President Kennedy announced, Ich bin ein Berliner, and thereby amused the city's populace because in the local parlance a Berliner is a doughnut . </P>

Ich bin ein berliner (i am a 'berliner')