Oddities from Ireland and Norway

It is a well-known fact that using French in menus of restaurants outside France is the “crème de la crème”.

This can sometimes lead to rather amusing menus.

In Dublin, Ireland, I found a “salade de fromage de chèvre chaude” in the list of possible starters. Spelt like this it means “cheese salad of hot goat”. If that’s what you have for starters, I wonder what comes next…

It should have been “salade de fromage de chèvre chaud” (it’s the cheese that’s hot not the goat). This demonstrates how a single missing “e” can have rather funny consequences…

In Norway, more and more foreigners open a restaurant with the prospect of benefiting from a higher standard of living.

Norwegian spelling can be a bit tricky but in this case it was an Italian word that was misspelled.

In front of one of these foreign fast-food, there was a sign reading “vi har pissa i frysern“. (read in Dagbladet, a Norwegian newspaper)

This means “we have peed in the freezer” instead of “vi har pizza i fryseren” meaning “we have pizza in the freezer”.

I wonder if that fast-food got a lot of customers…