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Yeah, some are boring, like Hamburg's "Kartoffelschälmesser", or Stuttgart's "Krabbenschächter" (😳 ?!)
"Groschenmesserschen" is just a knife for 10 ct.

Around the rhineland, "pitter" or "petter" is a boys' name, but can also mean "thingy". So they call it the kitchen thingy 😅

Some are weird, like "Lütt' Messer". Lütten are little girls. 😳

I have to admit that I only met Opinel after learning English, they weren't very well represented at least in NRW. Since Germany was always so good friends with France 🙈 , I don't think they have much of a market here. Probably more Swiss knives.

But I'm guessing too. My sources are growing up in NRW, but I haven't done a study 😇

@fiee @yvanspijk
Teufel is devil. Because it is "the one sharp as hell kitchen knife", areas around franconia call it the cutting devil 😅

Abraham is a religious connotation, because if you cut yourself with it, you'll see him soon-ish.

Schiller I'm not sure, that is NL-inspired.

This kind of knife is much older than brand manufacturers, the names mostly come from faerie and other tall tales. Or describe what it does, in old and older words.

@yvanspijk @fiee
They are used in local dialect words for "that one sharp kitchen knife". It has a different word in many dialects, but often a version of "kneip" is included.

Where I come from, it's "kniepchen"

This article is german, but has a map: https://www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2015/31/deutschlandkarte-kuechenmesser-dialekt