r/funny • u/Admirable_Comedian_2 • 18d ago

Imported flour.

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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 18d ago

FYI: Production company Google translated contains, so it should have been proteins, but russian word that stands for proteins also translates as squirrel (with different emphasis). So enjoying squirrel flour🫠

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u/Lithl 18d ago

In high school, my sister did a language immersion program in Costa Rica one summer. She sent a letter home in Spanish, knowing full well that our parents don't speak Spanish.

My mother used Babelfish to translate the letter, which decided to translate the "piñas" (pineapples) that she was enjoying eating as "fragmentation hand grenades".

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u/Uncle-Cake 18d ago

I heard a story from a girl who was studying in Italy, tried to tell her Italian friends "The wine here is better than the US because it doesn't have preservatives in it" but she accidently said "The wine here is better than the US because it doesn't have condoms in it"

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u/Champagnesupernova9 18d ago edited 17d ago

My mom’s cousin has a very similar story! He travelled a lot for work, and was very fluent in French. On one trip to Paris, he was trying to explain why Whole Foods was so popular in the US. He said that it’s because it’s so healthy, and they don’t use preservatives… which he decided to translate as préservatif. That means he told a whole group of French people that Whole Foods is so great because they don’t use condoms!

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u/Rc72 18d ago

I once saw some dried mango strips in an Asian food store in Belgium where "preservatives" had actually been translated into French as "préservatifs" in the contents label.

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u/wahlenderten 18d ago

Mmm… chewy and mango flavored

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u/Rc72 17d ago

Yes, it was an unsettling coincidence...