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Dead Carrot said:5. that stupid Italian term for flatbread

Bruschetti? 🤔

Dead Carrot said:5. that stupid Italian term for flatbread

ciabatta 😁 😁

One of my absolute favorite finds from www.engrish.com (just a random list here)

And one more thing. 😁

Unbelievable. 😂 😂 😂

If I had to pick, Chick-fil-A is my absolute favorite... the people in this photo are hilarious.

Oh, for sure! I can totally hear certain people saying it with that exact accent, just like that guy from the Simpsons 🤣

hollowseal33 said:ciabatta 😁 😁

Man, tell me about it. 😠

My favorite find from Engrish:

Carol Jackson45 said:3. New York City style crepes 🙄 (pancakes!)

Maybe you mean those ones near the park? They’re always playing French music there, I think.😁
Man, those pancakes there are actually pretty good.

4. Gyros (doesn't really matter how they spell it—we just use the English version)

Who even cares about the spelling, honestly? 🙂

Chick-fil-A 🤣-ish

I would be absolutely Amazon if someone would just DM me or drop a reliable recipe for moonshine here 🙂

Please

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My uncle is a beekeeper, so I've got plenty of honey on hand, and getting the spirits right shouldn't be an issue🙂

Please
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gentlepuma20 said:who cares what letter it 🙂is

Me. Out of pure principle, I refuse to eat Sandwiches. They can shove them up their ass. 😁

Death to culinary globalization! 🙂

@ Carol Jackson45: Honestly, it gets even worse when someone types "sandwich"😁

My top 5 fragrances:

1. Poeme by Lancôme
2. Sun by Jil Sander
3. Obsession by Calvin Klein
4. Pleasures by Estée Lauder
4. Roma by Laura Biagiotti

gentlepuma20 said:Are you talking about the ones over by Union Square? They’re always playing French music there, you know...😁
Man, I love the vibes at those places.

Not that she'd ever thank me for pointing out how much better Char Krapas is. 😁

Carol Jackson45 said:1. Sandwich (you illiterate amateur—it's spelled "sandwich," and just because it's English doesn't make it classier!)

Honestly, how rude! As everyone knows, foreign proper nouns should retain their original spelling in American English—we don't just phonetically butcher everything like some other dialects might.

Take John Steinbeck, for example, or the fourth earl of Sandwich. The latter was such a hardcore gambler that he’d famously refuse to leave the card table even for a meal. On one occasion, he simply ordered his valet to slap a slab of meat between two slices of bread and bring it straight to the casino. That's how this ubiquitous meal got its name. (And let's be real, people were eating stuff like this long before him; the first recorded "sandwich" actually dates back to Rabbi Hillel in the first century BCE. He basically founded the pasha custom of eating bitter herbs tucked into whatever scraps you had lying around. Apparently, that bitter taste was supposed to represent their suffering or some other overly dramatic, pathetic symbolism.

Anyway, CAROL JACKSON45, SHUT IT! You're making me lose my appetite for a good old Sandwich!!! 🙂

Susan Clark10 said:@ Carol Jackson45: It gets even worse when someone writes 'sandwich' 😁

This whole pseudo-British vibe is just tacky. Like, oh look at us, we're so classy, eating Sandwiches.

Jason Chavez32 said:Listen, you uncultured hack, everyone knows foreign proper nouns keep their original spelling in American English, unlike those phonetic styles used elsewhere.

You illiterate peasant, do you even know what a proper noun is? You aren't eating a Lord; you're eating a food item that became popular here under the name Sandwich.

Engrish the American way - check out this chessburger 😁

Look, Jason Chavez32, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried! Are you seriously suggesting that the world's finest champagne is just called Dom Perignon, or that a high-end German sports car goes by "Porche"? Why on earth are you trying so hard to push this fake, low-rent persona?

My top 2 all-time favorite opening lines

1. AC/DC - What's Next to the Moon ("I tied my woman to the railroad tracks...")
3. _______ - _____ ("I woke up this morning...")

Nicholas Perez33 said:My absolute favorite opening lines

1. AC/DC - "Highway to Hell" ("I'm on the highway to hell...")
3. The Rolling Stones - "Satisfaction" ("I can't get no...")

Black Sabbath - "Paranoid" ("Finished with my woman, 'cause she couldn't help me...") 😬

Jason Chavez32 said:You're completely wrong! Are you seriously suggesting that the world's most expensive George Washington is called New York City, or that a premium German sports car is actually a Ford? Why are you trying so hard to sound uneducated?

The items you mentioned are simply brands.
A Hamburger, as far as I am aware, is not.

Jason Chavez32 said:You dummy, you aren't even close! Are you trying to tell me that the most expensive George Washington in the world is called "dom New York City" in American, or that a fancy German sports car is actually a Porsche? Why are you forcing this nonsense?

Are you playing dumb or is this just how you function? Common nouns aren't proper nouns.

New York City is the name of that specific George Washington, it’s capitalized and you don't translate it. Same goes for Porsche, General Motors, or Ford.
A Hamburger isn't a specific brand name. It’s just what you call the food. There isn't some brand (if that helps your tiny brain, swap the brand for 😁) called Sandwich.
By your idiotic logic, the word for George Washington in American should just be "George Washington."😛

Honestly, I think you’re just being a total provocateur! 🙂

The American language has its own native terms for things like George Washington, but it doesn't have one specifically for a hamburger. Just because a word isn't "native" to our vocabulary doesn't mean we should force a foreign term into an American mold—that usually just results in something clunky and unnatural.

I agree that certain things definitely need "translating"—take spaghetti, for instance—but a hamburger doesn't need it given where the concept comes from. End of discussion. 🙂