Foreign English...

The Loony Bin ( loonies@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk )
Fri, 4 Oct 1996 00:17:19 +0100


Hiya All...

Here are some real-life foreign menus and other chaos this time...

Wishes & Dreams...

- ANDREA
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The following are items found overseas in which people have made
inappropriate use of English words for various products, and bizzare
menu items in restaurants.

Menu Items

Cold shredded children and sea blubber in spicy sauce       -  China
Indonesian Nazi Goreng                                      -  Hong Kong
Muscles Of Marines/Lobster Thermos                          -  Cairo
Prawn cock and tail                                         -  Cairo
Cock in wine/Lioness cutlet                                 -  Cairo
French fried ships                                          -  Cairo
Garlic Coffee                                               -  Europe
Sole Bonne Femme (Fish Landlady style)                      -  Europe
Boiled Frogfish                                             -  Europe
Sweat from the trolley                                      -  Europe
Dreaded veal cutlet with potatoes in cream                  -  China
Rainbow Trout, Fillet Streak, Popotoes, Chocolate Mouse     -  Hong Kong
Roasted duck let loose                                      -  Poland
Beef rashers beaten up in the country peoples fashion       -  Poland
Fried freindship                                            -  Nepal
Strawberry crap                                             -  Japan
Pork with fresh garbage                                     -  Vietnam
Toes with butter and jam                                    -  Bali
Goose Barnacles                                             -  Spain
French Creeps                                               -  L.A.
Fried fishermen                                             -  Japan
Buttered saucepans and fried hormones                       -  Japan
Teppan Yaki - Before Your Cooked Right Eyes                 -  Japan
Pepelea's Meat Balls                                        -  Romania

Product Names

        Clean Finger Nail      -  Chinese tissues
        Kolic                  -  Japanese mineral water
        Creap Creamy Powder    -  Japanese Coffee Creamer
        Last Climax            -  Japanese tissues
        Ass Glue               -  Chinese glues
        Swine                  -  Chinese chocolates
        Libido                 -  Chinese soda
        Pocari Sweat           -  Japanese sport drink
        Ban Cock               -  Indian cockroach repellent
        Shocking               -  Japanese chewing gum
        Homo sausage           -  East Asian fish sausage
        Cat Wetty              -  Japanese moistened hand towels
        Hornyphon              -  Austrian video recorder
        Shitto                 -  Ghanian pepper sauce
        Pipi                   -  Yugoslavian orangeade
        Polio                  -  Czechoslovakian laudnry detergent
        Crundy                 -  Japanese gourmet candy
        Superglans             -  Netherlands car wax
        I'm Dripper            -  Japanese instant coffee
        Zit                    -  Greek soft drink
        My Fanny               -  Japanese toilet paper
        Colon Plus             -  Spanish detergent

Some creative uses of the English language found in foreign tourist
spots


In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency:
      "Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no
      miscarriages."

In a Bangkok temple:
      "It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed
      as a man."

In a Tokyo bar:
      "Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts."

Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
      "- English well talking."
      "- Here speeching American."