Rurality Salad...anyone?

Yesterday I obliged our deejay, TommyG, in a tandem on air. He told me about a little known fact... that September 30 was International Translation Day. So, before we set off to talk about it on-air, I went online to search for show preps about translations...or mistranslations.


Just then I found this site, rahoi.com, and a really hilarious entry that featured a Chinese restaurant menu translated in english. Too amused the author probably was that he actually bought the menu (after probably dining in that restaurant somewhere in China) and came up with a jewel of a post.

Well, TommyG and I talked about it on-air (too bad we weren't able to record it) and we ended up laughing our pants off!

Here are some of the menu's entrees translated in english...hmmm, yummy!

(* are the author's original comments - too funny not to publish)

What’s in a rurality salad? Probably tastes better than urban(ity) salad.

Retchup is good with Rench Ries :)

Jeez...not THAT hungry, though.

Maybe he's a midget.

Benumbed? That belly silk must have really gone through a lot.

Miscellaneous germ? I think I'll pass.

Ooh that's hot!

1 article pot: hometown? Didn't know bean curds have hooves.

*The scorn adds that little extra kick.

*Nah, I think I’ll just have a Papsi.


*Maybe they should eat more words plum.

Just wondering how much did Cowboy Bean paid the fish for that soup?

*Wow - glad to know there are three “ignedients,” but what ARE THEY?

*Aren’t these kung fu moves?

*Is this like supersizing or what?

Hey, Joss Stone might like The Fish of Many Springs. And for only 8 yuan.

*Do I order this or agree with it?

What the hell is a Freasuse and what's inside it? No wonder it has a strange flavor.

*Man fruit? is that a euphemism?

*Double boiled frog for dessert? does that come ala commode?

*Mordacity: a disposition to biting. Well, I should hope so. It’s a PIZZA - does it come in suppository form?

*Well, then, what the hell is it?

Carbon burns? that could mean barbeque...but barbequeing black bowel is taking it too far...(yuck!). Or do they mean the vowel (A)? Ahhh! They do love those cowboy legs.

*Isn’t this a show on CBS?

Huh?

Hahaha!!! Couldn't say the entire line over the radio.

Can I have a cigarrette?

Jeez, they could just say hold the salt.

Haha...no wonder. I rest my case.
(This is why I miss on-air tandems...You share the jokes with your partner jock. Imagine looking like crazy laughing in the booth all by yourself?)