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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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If I were to start posting all the mis-spellings and mistranslations I see every day, I'd have a full time job. I think I've only ever posted one. Crap instead of carp.

 

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Of course, the errors are in several  languages. Including Chinese (although not technically mis-spelling, the use of the wrong, but homophonic character can be hilarious.

 

螺蛳粉 (luó sī fěn)  螺丝粉 (luó sī fěn) are pronounced identically but the first means 'snail noodles' and the second, 'screw noodles'.

 

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They are often confused, even by cafe type shops selling the dish, Liuzhou's signature dish. One place near me has two signs; one wrong, one correct.

 

But my favourite is this.

 

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The sign on the left reads "螺狮粉" (luó shī fěn) which means 'spiral lion noodles'

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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The "dinner" part, of course, makes it eligible for this thread. :P

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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23 minutes ago, chromedome said:

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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31 minutes ago, Duvel said:

I do not get it …

Me neither. 

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35 minutes ago, Duvel said:

I do not get it …

Looks like the letters for cheeseburger out of order but if intentionally humorous - a mark was missed. For years I've looked at Asian packaging using English words like at the 98cent Daiso. A lot of awkward wording and cutesie images but not intentional clever humor.  

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Not the usual sort of thing I post in this thread, but it seemed more appropriate here than elsewhere:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/20/donair-costume-canada-snack-pita-meat-controversy

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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3 hours ago, chromedome said:

Not the usual sort of thing I post in this thread, but it seemed more appropriate here than elsewhere:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/20/donair-costume-canada-snack-pita-meat-controversy

 

This is great! I grinned all the way through the article.

 

So are you going to place a bid?

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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This is great! I grinned all the way through the article.

 

So are you going to place a bid?

With lettuce in it? Hell, no! :P

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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2 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

I don't know about @chromedome but I would certainly have to pass. I have made the Nova Scotia donairs, minus the condensed milk sauce, and they are real gut bombs.

I say this with respect and affection, but that's incorrect. Without the milk-based sauce it's not a Nova Scotia donair, full stop. They are absolutely a gut bomb though, especially in the oversized form that's sold in many a donair place situated strategically near drinking establishments and/or student hangouts.

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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6 minutes ago, chromedome said:

Without the milk-based sauce it's not a Nova Scotia donair, full stop.

Okay, I bow to your Superior and cultural wisdom. But as @MaryIsobel said on another recent thread, I taste with my mind and I just could not wrap my head around all that sweet sauce on meat. However I did not put lettuce on them. Do I get points for that?

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2 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Okay, I bow to your Superior and cultural wisdom. But as @MaryIsobel said on another recent thread, I taste with my mind and I just could not wrap my head around all that sweet sauce on meat. However I did not put lettuce on them. Do I get points for that?

Absolutely. :)

The sauce *is* sweet, but not cloyingly so. It's garlic-forward when made properly, and balances nicely with the savoriness of the meat and onions (and provides the sweetness that's generally lacking in foodservice-grade tomatoes). But more fundamentally - and not at all facetiously - that sauce is the sine qua non of a Nova Scotia-style (really, a Halifax-style) donair. Otherwise it's just another take on a gyro or doner kebab. Not that there's anything wrong with those, either, but... you know... without the signature component, it's not the thing. Like coq au vin without wine. :P

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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