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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2006BW: Horribly translated menu
Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php Joyce > Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > > http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php > > Joyce OMG, that was so funny! I loved the guy's comments too. This is worse than anything I've ever seen in Thailand.  SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album This is worse > than anything I've ever seen in Thailand. them changes the meaning of words, for us it just changes the theme of a statement. In Thai, you've just asked for the 'mixed seafood with rice' & the reason the waiter is laughing at you is because you just told him 'You're hovercraft is full of eels'. SignatureMathew Butler to 3 cats: Chablis, Muscat & Sage En Vino Veritas > Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > > http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php My guess is the restaurateur's son or daughter is studying English, dad and mom don't understand a word of it, and the kid must be flunking out! If you like this, check out engrish.com -- they have a menu section, and much more! Sandy > Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > > http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php > > Joyce The warning was definitely needed. That is one of the funniest things I've ever read! SignatureJoy **Don't believe everything you think** > Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > > http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php > > Joyce > The warning was definitely needed. That is one of the funniest things I've > ever read! Among my favorites (with my own comments): * Bargain Item: Burn the spring chicken * Block pepper sauce Retchup (Retchup - sounds appetizing, doesn't it?) * The farmer is small to fry king * Benumbed hot Huang fries belly silk (If I were a man, this one would frighten me.) * Sparrow nest Loose kind Eight treasure D (I love this one, it's just a collection of random, unrelated words. And who wouldn't love to eat a plate of sparrow nest?) * Fragrant spring onion sauce explodes cow son (Sounds like Dave Barry should be alerted about this.) * Big bowl fresh immerse miscellaneous germ (Only if you've had all your shots!) Yes, these are actually menu items. It must have been done with translation software, don't you think? Joyce On Tue 07 Mar 2006 05:57:36a, wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes (news:440d6720$0$58079$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net): > Yes, these are actually menu items. It must have been done with > translation software, don't you think? That was my first thought. Though it also reminded me of the gibberish fl00d here last summer. SignatureCheryl > * Block pepper sauce Retchup > (Retchup - sounds appetizing, doesn't it?) Sounds like something that the cat hurks up. Jane - owned and operated by Princess Rita > Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > > http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php > > Joyce OMG.. thanks so much... this link made me laugh harder than i have in a while. Kristy > Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! Here's a list of actual menu items spotted on different Finnish restaurant menus that had been "translated" into English. It's been posted to a mailing list for translators several times, but it makes me ROFL each time. Finnglish menu items (real, but restaurant names withheld!) Shrimp and crap salad for two. Grilled pork shop. You can have crap on your pizza. Tepid chicken salad with bread. We give you water only when you ask. Dead snails from Åland in garlic and butter sauce. The cock is recommending today's beef. We can serve your steak with much blood, some blood, or well-done. The house's tart is called Torttu in Finnish and is warm. Ice cream with warm bear halves and toffee sauce. Finnish mushroom salad - wild, salty and sticky mushrooms with cream sauce and pickles. Mexican burrito with mutilated chicken meat and salsa. Try traditional Finnish pee soup. We can bring the nuts and drinks to your room (room service card). Drink something if you want (room service card). On our breakfast table you will find the cheese, the meat and some others. Omelet is made with recent eggs from a local farm where the chickens are alive. This week is "bird meat week" but we also have a good selection of mammal meat. Japanese guests can have traditional breakfast with stinky rice and fishes. Blini served with cream and not real caviar. Tar ice cream - Finnish special. Good for people who eat tar and lingon berries. Children's hamburger is served with the French Pizzas. After clock 21 are not. Sorry. Meat with sweat and sour sauce. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > Finnglish menu items (real, but restaurant names withheld!) These are funny, too. Some of them would immediately turn me into a vegetarian: * Dead snails from Aland in garlic and butter sauce. (better than living snails, I guess! :)) * We can serve your steak with much blood, some blood, or well-done. * Mexican burrito with mutilated chicken meat and salsa. * This week is "bird meat week" but we also have a good selection of mammal meat. Of course, in some cases, not even being a vegetarian would help: > Try traditional Finnish pee soup. I guess then I'd have to go vegan: no animal products at all. :) Joyce On Mon 06 Mar 2006 11:04:59p, wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes (news:440d066b$0$58090$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net): > Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > > http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php > > Joyce I don't have asthma, but I laughed so hard it was hard to breathe, and I was cry/laughing so hard the cats were trying to console me. LOL SignatureCheryl >> Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! >> http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php >> Joyce > I don't have asthma, but I laughed so hard it was hard to breathe, > and I was cry/laughing so hard the cats were trying to console me. > LOL Cheryl OMG...hysterical! jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net @ jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net > Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php HILARIOUS!!! SignatureMoses Lambert PO1(SW) USN(ret) Cliologist, Philanthropologist, Prothonotary Wibbler, Paleoconservative, Surface Warrior Squid, Aristocidal Philosoph; Subsidiary of Vitameatavegemega.com >Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > >http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php <wheeze> <wheeze> That's what I get for not listening! Oh I want the fragrant bone in garlic in strange flavor! eheheehehee <wheeze> Thanks! Jane - owned and operated by Princess Rita This is too funny! =o) But I don't think I will EVER eat at that restaurant, God willing! I can't decide which is funnier, the menu or the guy's comments. I have a book that has signs that don't QUITE say what the proprietor intended whether from inexact English translations, or simply poor syntax. "Please pick up your items promptly as we execute customers in regular rotation" on the window of a Nigerian dry cleaning store. And your check better not bounce, either. To accompany your meal, may we suggest a glass of wine or bear? Melissa >Warning to asthmatics: have your inhaler ready! > >http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php > >Joyce Thanks for the inhaler warning! omg, that is hilarious! Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website)
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