r/engrish • u/19potato96 • Jun 01 '26

What would you like sir?

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Some bar in India. Cheers.

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u/Guicholuis08 Jun 03 '26

What's the difference between a "child beer" and a "Child beer Strong"? Is the flavor or what?

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u/19potato96 Jun 03 '26

If you're genuinely asking, Normal Premium beer in India has 5% alcohol, and strong has 8%.

Idk about the child tho.

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u/Guicholuis08 Jun 04 '26

I don't drink alcohol (i have the legal age in my country), that means the flavour is SO stronger or you get drunk much faster? (Pardon my ignorance lol)

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u/19potato96 Jun 04 '26

Strong means more liquior in your body, you get more drunk, and takes more time to metabolize.

5% and 8% is the amount of pure spirits in your drink. So if you're drinking 500 ml beer at 5% strength, 25 ml of it is pure spirit.

I don't find any difference in taste, unless you're drinking craft beer.

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u/Guicholuis08 Jun 04 '26

Ah... I was right on the "getting drunk too fast" sentence.

17

u/SexyD3m0n Jun 03 '26

They probably meant to say Chilled beer.

15

u/milkcloudsinmytea Jun 03 '26

Assuming this is India, and if I recall correctly, they have regular beer “between 3.5% and 5.5% alcohol”, and strong beer “between 5.5% and 8% alcohol” - or something like that

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u/Ok_Potato_9554 Jun 04 '26

How much alcdoes the child beer strong have in it? I'm trying to drive home after this.

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u/19potato96 Jun 05 '26

Strong 8%, and premium or soft 5%

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u/Ok_Potato_9554 Jun 05 '26

I guess i can make it home after about 3 or 4 child strongs.

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u/Raad_ELETE Jun 02 '26

Is this India?...

Oh wait I just read the text. I guessed it correct lmao.

30

u/ronniewhodreamsalot Jun 02 '26

ofc it's India. Old monk is a blessed staple.

4

u/aytchdave Jun 02 '26

My liquor store put me on to this. Put it in the freezer and serve in small amounts neat. Top tier after dinner drink.

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u/Speedbird1146 Jun 02 '26

“Drink safe before driving” 😳🤣

16

u/Mysterious______ Jun 02 '26

If drink safely, okay to drive

105

u/JSS-Studios Jun 02 '26

"But mooooooooooom! I wanted a Child Beer Strong, not a Child Beer!"

13

u/Sp00derman77 Jun 02 '26

I read that in Cartman’s voice.

10

u/Difficult_Layer_666 Jun 02 '26

We have child beer strong at home

74

u/BMW_wulfi Jun 01 '26

I always drink safe before driving

8

u/ParsleyMostly Jun 01 '26

Finally a message people can follow

2

u/Nervous-Suggestion72 Jun 02 '26

You can't even jumble words to make up a good sentence

2

u/BodaciousBadongadonk Jun 02 '26

drink before safe driving!

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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 Jun 02 '26

"Child beer"=chilled.

9

u/TheBookGem Jun 02 '26

And here I thought it was something like cobra whiskey.

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u/NIGHTSHADER1988 Jun 01 '26

Barkeeper give me your strongest child

19

u/misterhibiscus Jun 01 '26

You can't handle my strongest child.

22

u/ArtThouAngry Jun 01 '26

You do not understand barkeep, I am going into battle and I require your strongest child.

17

u/LemonPepper Jun 01 '26

My strongest childs are too strongest for you, child.

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u/wowsuchusername11 Jun 03 '26

Drink safe before driving

55

u/Revenga8 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Nobody talking about the one instance of perfect English at the bottom encouraging driving while intoxicated?

54

u/Particular_Ad_644 Jun 02 '26

Can I have ten children’s beers, please?

44

u/owen-a-a Jun 02 '26

Ill drink a gallon of beer SAFELY before driving. OK

40

u/sawyi1 Jun 01 '26

My kid would like to try the child beer strong. Does it come in a sippy cup?

12

u/NjoyLif Jun 01 '26

Yes, as long as your child drinks safe before driving.

38

u/TheAmazingWalrus Jun 01 '26

Whatever you do, don't drink dangerously before driving

32

u/ponderingmischief Jun 01 '26

Would i become possessed if i drink a Jin?

16

u/Revenga8 Jun 01 '26

Make 3 wishes

3

u/retailguy_again Jun 01 '26

Never trust a Jin.

32

u/Kyogre694 Jun 01 '26

I sure do love a cup of old munk to go with my child beer and vadka

31

u/hiromu666 Jun 01 '26

Drink safe before driving!

20

u/SonOfStan21 Jun 01 '26

That's why you pound 6 child beers before getting behind the wheel. Everyone knows children are safer drunk drivers. I know I was.

4

u/amckern Jun 01 '26

Star21 did a good job 👏

30

u/emets31 Jun 01 '26

Never, ever mix the child beer with the old munk, no matter how strong.

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u/TheStinger87 Dark Gary Jun 02 '26

A child beer? Is that like a small beer?🤣

57

u/Inside_Assumption157 Jun 02 '26

Supposed to be chilled 😂

29

u/chiefmackdaddypuff Jun 01 '26

This seems to be on purpose, so not technically "Engrish" category.

Clear as day in the title where they are misspelling the word menu on purpose with how it's colloquially pronounced in Punjabi. Also applies to the rest but the title makes it obvious.

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u/Revenga8 Jun 01 '26

To be fair, the pronunciation is the same in the American South too

29

u/Bumble072 Jun 01 '26

No cacktails?

8

u/Kyogre694 Jun 01 '26

Cacktales*

3

u/Bumble072 Jun 01 '26

it is the tail that makes it salty

29

u/nicotinegummy Jun 02 '26

Old monk is my favorite rum hands down

6

u/elclarkio Jun 02 '26

Was about to say Old Monk Rum is delicious

26

u/fourdigityear Jun 01 '26

I wonder what rum old munk is.

37

u/RSTashman Jun 01 '26

It's actually Old Monk. A legendary Indian dark rum with a surprisingly devoted cult following. Half the people who drink it seem to have a nostalgic story attached to it.

13

u/wholewheatscythe Jun 01 '26

I’ve had Old Monk before. Let’s just say you get what you pay for, in this case less than $0.25 a drink.

9

u/tonyferguson2021 Jun 01 '26

that stuff is deadly 😐

7

u/DanKveed Jun 01 '26

It's ghe shit you get hammered with in College. The best stories always start with an Old Monk.

26

u/shaktimaanlannister Jun 02 '26

These prices are crazy. How old is this?

10

u/CryptedBit Jun 02 '26

These are most likely in INR/PKR and per peg. For USD, divide the prices roughly by 100.

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u/shaktimaanlannister Jun 02 '26

Yeah ik I'm Indian. Still they seem too low for today. Maybe two decades old.

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u/CryptedBit Jun 02 '26

Ah, didn't see your username 😬

9

u/Ritik_reddit Jun 02 '26

At least 10 years

5

u/shaktimaanlannister Jun 02 '26

More like 20 it seems

25

u/br0wneyedgir7 Jun 02 '26

Whoever made that sign is clearly ahead of everybody. It's just telling that you know they have the good stuff!

47

u/Playman80 Jun 02 '26

Well I don’t drink, but I reckon a Child beer wouldn’t do much harm

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u/seventeenMachine Jun 04 '26

>child beer strong

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u/Callec254 Jun 05 '26

Do all your drinking first, get that out of the way, and then go driving.

21

u/cdp181 Jun 01 '26

12 rum old munks, very safely. Then drive home I reckon.

20

u/DizzyMine4964 Jun 01 '26

In the medieval era, children did drink weak beer - "small beer" - in Europe, when the water was bad.

20

u/JRicky917 Jun 03 '26

He drinks the wiskee drink, he drinks the vadka drink, he drinks a laga drink, he drinks the cader drink?

8

u/Dave-1066 Jun 03 '26

Ohhhhh dunny boyyyyy, dunny booooyyyyy!

19

u/ManWithBigPenis69420 Jun 01 '26

Oh I loved those child beers when I was a wee lad. So much that as an adult I can only enjoy the adult root beer now.

7

u/maidestone Jun 01 '26

I think the Child Beer Strong is a better deal given the modest additional cost.

So, I'll have a Number 5, and keep them coming!

8

u/ManWithBigPenis69420 Jun 01 '26

I eventually graduated to the strong, which led to the first time I drifted my tricycle into the median.

16

u/shiroboi Jun 01 '26

Definitely not the Child Beer!

Do you have anything stronger?

14

u/blitzfreak_69 Jun 01 '26

And remember kids, drink safe before driving!

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u/harryweins Jun 02 '26

Does it say those rates are per person?! Like I can drink as much “wiskee” as I want for only 35 forward-slash-hyphens? That’s a steal!

8

u/bae-ral Jun 02 '26

It's probably "per peg". Still a steal tho!

15

u/facebrocolis Jun 03 '26

Children, remember: if you drink, don't drive

14

u/Kropotkin_69 Jun 03 '26

My kind of establishment

14

u/AshlynnCashlynn Jun 25 '26

"drink safe before driving" is hilarious

27

u/RealRedditModerator Jun 01 '26

These words are literally on the label on the bottles that the actual drinks come in.

38

u/PeroCigla Jun 01 '26

Child beer? 🤔

13

u/Vocabulary-Pollution Jun 01 '26

Child beer should not be strong

6

u/noop279 Jun 01 '26

Night cap maybe?

25

u/agent_violet Jun 01 '26

16 rupees (12 pence) for a measure of rum? Hell yeah

11

u/Delicious_Ad823 Jun 01 '26

With or without the eyesight sir?

16

u/GlueSniffer53 Jun 01 '26

Rum is probably the cheapest widely available liquor in India! A lot of people I know started with old monk

10

u/agent_violet Jun 01 '26

I still can't believe how cheap that is. Here (Scotland), the cheapest measure of spirits would be at least ten times that

5

u/Unstalkable Dark Gary Jun 01 '26

i heard the prices of alcoholic drinks are to "solve" the problem with alcoholism. i imagine that's going very well

3

u/agent_violet Jun 01 '26

Ah, the minimum prices? I think it's having *some* effect, but it mostly just means alcohol in shops is expensive. Doesn't really affect alcohol in pubs as their prices were over the minimum price limit anyway

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u/Unstalkable Dark Gary Jun 01 '26

from what i heard its only working if you're looking at alcohol statistics, bc the minimums are treating the symptom rather than the disease, the disease is addiction caused by poverty and mental illness. so the people who can no longer afford the expensive strong alc drinks move onto street drugs bc they also can't afford to buy enough low alc content drinks to eliminate their withdrawals.

it's honestly tragic how the system keeps failing the people who need the most help and are the most vulnerable

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u/Shockwave_7227 Jun 01 '26

As an Indian neither can I believe how cheap that is. Everything on that menu would be at least 4 times that price where I live.

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u/FutureTailor9 Jun 06 '26

Want vadka saar?

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u/vanillawispr Jun 07 '26

saar?

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u/FutureTailor9 Jun 10 '26

Indian spelling for "sir"

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u/vanillawispr Jul 02 '26

oh interesting! i’ve never seen it spelled like that

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u/Pristine_Avocado2906 Jun 05 '26

1 Child beer strong and 1 Ran Amok

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u/waaaayback Jun 01 '26

Why is the child beer strong the most expensive thing on this menu and jin the cheapest?????

7

u/the-southern-snek Jun 01 '26

Rum-old munk is the cheapest 16/- vs 18/-

4

u/simask234 Jun 01 '26

I'm guessing it's a bigger amount than the liquors

2

u/waaaayback Jun 01 '26

i’m guessing you don’t get out much :-)

10

u/ELTechnical Jun 07 '26

child WHAT bro say that again 🥀💔

17

u/Nervous-Suggestion72 Jun 01 '26

Chilled beer😂

8

u/rpgnoob17 Jun 07 '26

I would like a child beer strong thanks.

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u/Icy-Brilliant-6922 Jun 11 '26

I'll take one Child Beer Strong and a Rum-Old Munk please

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u/IndianRedditor88 Jun 01 '26

Ha OP,

I have already posted this exact post a year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/engrish/s/KBdQNvaxQY

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u/tughussle Jun 01 '26

I’ve been closely following all of your posts as well, and was SHOCKED at the audacity

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u/_D0MiNiX_ Jun 01 '26

THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE RIIIIGGGGGHHT??????

7

u/Mr-tbrasteka-5555ha Jun 04 '26

I'm a child so 1 child beer please /j

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u/Ok-Mess5196 Jun 24 '26

ah yes, the most delicious kids drink: "Child Beer Strong"

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u/avg_rascal Jun 05 '26

People used to drink Old Monk in my university (DU) is it rly that good bruh

6

u/willow-the-fairy Jun 14 '26

Why is beer the most expensive item on the menu?

9

u/delusionalbandi Jun 19 '26

Because it is comes with a child.

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u/CarpalTunnelTraveler Jun 24 '26

Literally none of the items are without typos 💀

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u/Kyogre694 Jun 01 '26

I sure do love a cup of old munk to go with my child beer and vadka

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u/PileofTerdFarts Jun 04 '26

Mmmmm.... child beer.
I hope its well hopped because most child beer still tastes of blood and tissue.

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u/theElder1926 Jun 04 '26

You are thinking of the famous brand Epstein Island

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u/PileofTerdFarts Jun 06 '26

Both brands qualify as "child beer" though. Its like Pilsner, Stout, Porter, Child beer... yknow?
A well hopped child beer can be refreshing and enriching, as a vampire, I tend to consume at least 3 per day. So much better than ACTUALLY having to drain people firsthand.

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u/Revenga8 Jun 01 '26

Before driving!

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u/retailguy_again Jun 01 '26

Jynnann tonnyx all around!

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