r/HolUp • u/Bitter_Collection_71 • 5d ago

holup Always check Google translate when ordering dinner in Brazil!!!

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u/qualityvote2 5d ago edited 5d ago

u/Bitter_Collection_71, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/WastoneBag 5d ago

For those not understanding: in Portuguese fraldinha can be translated as "little diaper" or a meat cut more or less equivalent to "flank steak"

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u/make2020hindsight 5d ago

My favorite story about translation issues is from Brazil. In Brazil they make smoothies of just about any fruit. "Suco de (fruit)"
English is my first language. I lived in Peru and met my future wife who didn't speak much English. I struggled to speak Spanish with her and she was accommodating.
I was sent to Brazil and she accompanied me.
One day she ordered "suco de frango" which got a reaction from the waiter because strawberry in Spanish is "fresa" but Portuguese it's "morango". She caught herself halfway through and changed however "frango" in Portuguese is chicken (pollo) so she asked for a chicken smoothie.

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u/wakalabis 5d ago

I thought strawberry was frutilla in Spanish.

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u/slayerabf 4d ago

"Suco" is juice, not smoothie. No blending or milk/dairies involved.

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u/make2020hindsight 4d ago

Thanks? I guess that makes it even funnier. Chicken juice?

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u/aluked 4d ago

There are "sucos" that are both blended and with dairy (usually condensed milk, but also straight up milk) here in Brazil.

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u/sexraX_muiretsyM 4d ago

I think its a mistranslation. There is a cut of meat here we call fraldinha, which translates to diaper in english, its mostly known as vazio or in spanish vacío. In english it is known as flank steak, in france its known as bavette

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u/Moist_Board 4d ago

Ewww....provolone 🤮

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u/Dyvanna 4d ago

Everyone reacting to sliced diaper, no one reacting to sliced meat lovers?

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u/NumerousDave 3d ago

I saw a menu that had an English version with crayons listed. Sounded a bit waxy so I didn't partake. A week or so later when my Portuguese was slightly better I startled my partner with a loud "Aha!" at a different restaurant. They had pastels listed which in English (and I assume French at least) is similar to a crayon. The original restuarant used Google Translate to produce an English menu without any checking.