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This seemed like an odd choice - having a chip plant in a small, beautiful tourist town. Then I clicked the link and boom - it's another place with the same name.


You're thinking of the original one in Sicily?

It's sometimes confusing how Americans repurposed city names wholesale without the "New" prefix. Most of them are tiny towns, as for example Paris, Texas made famous by the movie.

Of the larger ones, St Petersburg, Florida always weirds me out — it makes me think of Lenin giving a speech at Finland Station under palm trees, dressed in a white suit like Don Johnson.


My favorite is near where I grew up - Versailles, Kentucky. Pronounced ver-SAILS.


> Most of them are tiny towns

They were all tiny towns when they were first named.




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