Originally Posted by
Taiwaned
Actually, that is Japanese that is literally translated into romanized characters. You want a coffee in Japan you do say "cohee".
Still they should know better.
We once had a waiter - from Alsace-Lorraine, it turned out - tell us the soup of the day was "Garbage soup." I did a spit-take with my wine!
"What did you say?" I asked increduously.
"Garbage soup" he repeated.
"I'm sorry, but I could swear you just said 'Garbage soup'. Would you mind spelling that for me, please?"
He looked at me like I was a fair dinkum idiot, and said "C-A-B-B-A-G-E soup.
Garbage soup. Now do you understand?"
And we just laughed and laughed and said "No thank you. Sounds delicious, but we'll pass."
