If someone invites someone else out to dine, unless it is pre-determined that each pay their own way, it is simply bad manners to suggest “going dutch” after the meal.

Other terms using Dutch:
Dutch oven: It is not clear if these cast iron pots got their name from the way pots were manufactured by the Dutch, or came to have this title following Dutch traders selling pots among their other wares, or as some historians believe that it came into use from the Pennsylvania Dutch population using these pots to cook in.

In Dutch: Slang of unknown origin, the inference being that one is in trouble if one is in dutch.

Double Dutch Jump Rope: Double Dutch is historically a jump rope game played by black children (mainly girls) in rural and urban areas in America.

Dutch Apple Pie: Apple pie that contains the normal ingredients plus things like raisins or icing.

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