Comments on: Well, they say you can’t make an omelet …

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:50:29 +0000

I have half of one.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:49:13 +0000

Well, if the baked beans were off, I would have requested to replace them with spam.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:20:21 +0000

I don’t care how much you peel it, it still tastes foul to me.

By: Murph

Murph — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:22:00 +0000

This is nothing. I live in Spain and by normal standards this is an award-winning menu in English, nearly everything is correct.

By: Callie

Callie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:00:05 +0000

This isn’t quite Engrish. Broken eggs is where you throw the egg into the pan and “break” the yolk and white up by mixing it up. Its scrambled but less homogenous.

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:37:40 +0000

Not really! You can never have too many beans! (As long as it doesn’t exceed 2! :T)

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:36:32 +0000

Do you want peeled foul with that?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:31:21 +0000

Can I have harsh browns?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:30:32 +0000

Are the baked beans off?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:28:55 +0000

Nice try, but it says “Goat’s….”. Too much coffee on your screen?

By: Psychedelic

Psychedelic — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:35:34 +0000

Anyone, by any chance, notice the “God’s cheese sauce” offered under the first entree?

Which god? Which cheese? And really, with a sauce like that, would it matter?

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:34:47 +0000

Picar is also a very common verb in Spain, meaning to have a bite or to snack on something. (Also means to sting, hence the funny mistranslation.)

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:33:17 +0000

Huevos Rotos are fried eggs broken up into little pieces. It’s a literal and sensical translation. Very common (and delicious!) dish in Spain.

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:48:02 +0000

How much? I have some lint, and a couple of buttons.

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:41:06 +0000

Weird Al!

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:40:25 +0000

Would you like a side of spam with that?

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:39:58 +0000

???

By: Queen o' sarcasm

Queen o' sarcasm — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:44:02 +0000

word…B(

By: la conejita

la conejita — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:24:32 +0000

Creo que se refieren a Jamo’n de Iberia.

By: Capitán General Alamasy del ejército de la República Independiente de Mi Casa

Capitán General Alamasy del ejército de la República Independiente de Mi Casa — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:11:45 +0000

Demasiados “Iberian” para ser de México.

By: Capitán General Alamasy del ejército de la República Independiente de Mi Casa

Capitán General Alamasy del ejército de la República Independiente de Mi Casa — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:09:29 +0000

No in a Iberian Bar with Pan.

By: gobbletgoop

gobbletgoop — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:54:06 +0000

No Spam?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:35:01 +0000

Now, honey, don’t bee like that…

By: bluejade

bluejade — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:10:05 +0000

Different site, different crowd. Hate to be obvious; but that’s what it is.

By: gabby

gabby — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:16:17 +0000

COZ when im on LOLdogs AN LOLcats…we allways talk LYKE DIS!!!!

By: gabby

gabby — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:15:19 +0000

SCUSE MEH! i DON get it…..HOWZ come PPL dont LYKE it when PPL write LYKE DIS?????

By: la conejita

la conejita — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:49:14 +0000

I think this must be Spain. In Mexico, we don’t really use the word picar to mean that we want to eat.

If I say I want to picar. It be like saying I want to poke. Some people can interpret that to have a sexual connotation.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:44:20 +0000

OK, you can have small potatoes with that.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:47:10 +0000

So maybe they are offering a menu of snacks for the lounge? And trying to hip about it? Although those are some mighty substantial snacks… where is this place, again?

By: la conejita

la conejita — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:05:56 +0000

picar: Has several translations. To sting refers to a bee or wasp sting. I don’t know why they chose this. If you look at the list, #4 tells you it means to eat.

Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:
picar (conjugate⇒) verbo transitivo

1.
1. [mosquito/víbora] to bite;
[abeja/avispa] to sting;
me ~on los mosquitos I got bitten by mosquitoes;
una manta picada por las polillas a moth-eaten blanket
2. [ave] ‹comida› to peck at;
‹enemigo› to peck
3. ‹anzuelo› to bite
4. (fam) (comer) to eat;
solo quiero ~ algo I just want a snack o a bite to eat
5. ‹billete/boleto› to punch
6. (Taur) to jab

2.
1. (Coc) ‹carne› (Esp, RPl) to grind (AmE), to mince (BrE);
‹cebolla/perejil› to chop (up)
2. ‹hielo› to crush;
‹pared› to chip;
‹piedra› to break up, smash

3. ‹dientes/muelas› to rot, decay

verbo intransitivo

1.
1. (morder el anzuelo) to bite, take the bait
2. (comer) to nibble

2.
1. (ser picante) to be hot
2. (producir comezón) [lana/suéter] to itch, be itchy;
me pica la espalda my back itches o is itchy;
me pican los ojos my eyes sting

3. (AmL) [pelota] to bounce

4. (RPl arg) (irse, largarse) to split (sl);
~le (Méx fam) to get a move on (colloq)

By: Lawlin' at things noone else ever lawls at like the word moose/ also the CEO of TrollsOnTrial; We make you the FIRST one in court!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:33:40 +0000

*whispers* Bzzt.. hey, wanna buy some pollin? hey…

By: dr handle

dr handle — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:50:13 +0000

Sounds as though someone took a colloquial meaning, and didn’t realise that it wouldn’t translate literally into English. Context is everything. Proper use of a foreign language dictionary has many Traps For Young Players – many schoolroom howlers have eventuated from careless and/or literal translations.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:46:48 +0000

Do you have a bee licence?

By: dr handle

dr handle — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:46:26 +0000

Oh, buzz off.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:13:50 +0000

By: bluejade

bluejade — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:17:19 +0000

I think the big Haiches are for HempHasis.

By: Pooch

Pooch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:45:57 +0000

At least this one’s reasonably easy to decipher. You have potatoes in a few different sauces, Iberian (Spanish, I guess) ham. Then a few combos of scrambled eggs with different stuff. Most of those are in half and whole rations. Kind of like lunch & dinner portions. Oh, and squids.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:11:41 +0000

But if Picar means to chop, where did they get sting?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:04:02 +0000

I’ll have the spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, and spam!

By: la conejita

la conejita — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:20:03 +0000

Yes, and broken eggs = “huevos estrellados” which means scrambled eggs.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:05:30 +0000

That would make a small omelet…

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:04:40 +0000

WHatever…

By: Francisco

Francisco — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:37:32 +0000

Now I get it! “To sting” = “Picar”. “Picar”, informal way in Spanish to say “grab a bite”. Funny is that the same verb “picar” can be used to mean “to chop” o “to mince”.

By: Rhianimator

Rhianimator — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:07:57 +0000

And Eric the half a Bee?

By: setojurai

setojurai — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:42:57 +0000

I’ll have the spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam sausage and spam.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:51:17 +0000

Eeeeh?

Got anything without any Iberian ham in it?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:52:53 +0000

He’ll be here all Sumner.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:33:17 +0000

Spam, eggs, baked beans and spam hasn’t got much spam in in it…

By: baldrick

baldrick — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:05:36 +0000

Far away from hom
on the boulevard of broken eggs
where the city eats

By: bluejade

bluejade — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:46:47 +0000

That is a mighty big meal for one (vegetarian) musician.