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"Kuchen" is a fairly common term in Milwaukee (and my family), but this is a city where the default potato salad is German potato salad. My grandmother told me that in WWI, they tried to get the community to call sauerkraut "Liberty cabbage," but nobody would go along with it. Germans are stubborn.
The term is also used in Chile, which surprised the heck out of me when I lived there until I learned that there are cities in Chile where many of the folks still speak German.

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