Re: OT: Junk

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Roger Mills wrote:

> Not quite as dire as my experience with mis-hearing Sino-English.  While
> having dim-sum in Detroit (I know, an unlikely idea), we asked the waitress
> what was in one of the dumplings, and all 3 of us distinctly heard "cat
> meat", which she finally clarified to [kw&p?mi?], which {crab}indeed it
> turned out to be.  Delicious too.
I'm not sure what 'dim-sum' is, but here in Melbourne there is a joke that
dim-sims contain cat meat, or were originally made of cat meat, or some
derivative thereof. Apparently the source was a fish-n-chips shop* in St
Kilda (a suburb of Melbourne) which did it, and were subsequently shut
down.

*I don't know what the sell in the UK, but in Australia, it isn't a
fish-n-chips shop unless they sell fish and chips (and other things in
batter), souvlaki, hamburgers, dimsims and springrolls.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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