Editing Distelfink (section)

==In popular culture==
During the 1940s, variations of Distelfink birds with flowers, hearts and tulips became popular designs for crochet, pottery and wallpaper patterns.<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/557503312/ U.S. Folk-lore Used in New Wallpaper]." Lancaster, Pennsylvania: ''Intelligencer Journal'', April 22, 1943, p. 1 (subscription required).</ref>

Distelfink was adopted as the name for a chain of drive-in restaurants serving [[Pennsylvania Dutch]] food that became popular across Pennsylvania during the twentieth century. Sandoe's Distelfink, which was located in [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania|Gettysburg]], which was built by Cecil Sandoe in 1954, was patronized by a number of prominent Americans, including former [[First Lady of the United States|first lady of the United States]] [[Mamie Eisenhower]] and Baltimore Orioles baseball star [[Brooks Robinson]].<ref>Reed, Lillian. "[https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/2018/03/09/its-heyday-distelfink-drive-served-celebrities/410025002/ In its heyday, Distelfink Drive-in served celebrities]." Hanover, Pennsylvania: ''Evening Sun'', March 9, 2018.</ref>

[[File:European Goldfinch on Spear Thistle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A European Goldfinch on a thistle]]
In the story "[[The Sign of the Triple Distelfink]]", the American [[cartoonist]] [[Don Rosa]] used a ''triple distelfink'' [[hex sign]] as the origin for [[Gladstone Gander]]'s remarkable luck.