American food naming conventions

[Will__]

Our American cousins tend to call some foods after their supposed place of origin.
English muffins are not eaten in the UK, well ,at least not for breakfast. French toast is never eaten in france.
Belgain waffles, you guessed it, are not often eaten in Belgium. Anyone have any ideas?
My first guess would be that it just panders to the US 'quaint' notions that just because something comes from abroad or Western Europe, it's better somehow.

[Pinotage]

The Yanks called their spongy cup cake 'muffins' so thats why they referred to the original muffin as 'English'. Muffins go back centuries and are jolly nice at breakfast and for teatime. There was a nursery rhyme when I was little that started Oh, do you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, Oh, do you know the muffin man, That lives on Drury Lane? As for Belgium waffles - well the Belgiums seem to consume lots of waffles. You could ask why they call chips 'french fries' ;)

[Pickle]

I heard a good answer to the English Muffins one. The Pennsylvania Dutch, otherwise known as the Amish, coined the name. It's English as in 'not Amish' rather than English from England. I haven't checked if this is accurate but it sounds as good an explanation as any.