Twenty years ago or more, I could understand why I came across errors on a restaurant menu. Native English speakers in Kraków were scarce, making it hard to find someone to proofread. But these days, with a large expat population living in Poland and a continual flow of tourists, I’m much less forgiving of translation mistakes. So you can imagine my reaction when I recently came across this doozy:
“Pasta with vegetables and chicken corpse.”
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This makes me laugh!! Thank you.
You’re welcome. 🙂
Once I was in a restaurant in Radom, Poland; the waiter didn’t speak much English and the menu had weird translations like you mentioned. There was something called “Peasant Pockets”. I’m adventurous so the waiter stumbled around, trying to tell me what this was. “Meat and mushrooms”. OK, that sounds good, I’ll have it. The meal arrived and it wasn’t bad. Another waiter who spoke better English walked by and I asked him if he could tell me what the meat was. “Pig cheeks” he said. Hmmmmm, well, I didn’t die>
Ha! Ha! You’re more courageous than I am.