The Loony Bin
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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 xx *************<andrea@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk>************* *****<ajc6@ukc.ac.uk>*****<bloodaxe@geocities.com>***** *** *** *** THE LOONY BIN *** *** loonies@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk *** *** Archive: http://eleceng.ukc.ac.uk/~pjw/loonies/ *** *** *** *******************Internet Goddess******************** **********************ANDROMEDA************************ ------- Forwarded foolishness follows ------- 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."