They seldom treat one another, but sit down to the tables, and although they drink together, each man pays for what he consumes, whether it be beer or food. In fact, a German in the Fatherland is constitutionally opposed to doing anything in a hurry, and especially to drinking beer with “rapid speed.” The consequence is that we do not see men here with great, huge paunches, as at home, capable of swallowing a keg of beer after supper. Here a German never thinks of finishing his glass of beer in less than ten minutes, and to drink it without eating something at the same time, even if it is only a crust of brown bread. They rush into a restaurant and gulp down two or three glasses and move on. The Germans in the United States, and those Americans who affect a fondness for lager- beer, don’t drink it as it is drank in Germany.

The earliest occurrences of Dutch treat that I have found date from June 1873 the origin of this noun was explained in an article titled Beer, Letter from Vienna to the Baltimore American, published on Friday 20 th in The Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois)-this article shows that in Dutch treat, the adjective Dutch is used in the sense of German : I have discovered that to go Dutch is in fact a shortening of to go Dutch treat, which itself arose from the noun Dutch treat, also of American-English origin, denoting a meal, outing, entertainment, at which each participant pays for his or her share of the expenses. Of American-English origin, the phrase to go Dutch means to have every participant pay for his or her own expenses, also to share expenses equally.

Dutch crunch bread origin