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I don’t believe you can ever make enough fun of products that are named unfortunately in your language. For example, I was recently in Mendoza, Argentina where I discovered a shampoo called “assy” and a perfume shop called “maggot.” Now isn’t that [...]
Let it never be said that English has not done a number on Spanish, with it’s Nova (won’t go!) cars, and it’s sarna (mange) lotion, and a number of other products and names that you’d just as soon leave on their shelves, or undiscovered. And let it not be said that Mendoza did [...]
Of the many hilarious English translations of Spanish food names on the variety of menus I have seen, some favorites include “battered brains” (which was not quite inaccurate, yet so disturbing) on a menu in Madrid, and of course, sweater to the trout, a mysterious offer on a menu in a bus station [...]
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