• @[email protected]
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    87 hours ago

    I thought this was some kind of wool or cloth from the thumbnail. It’s like how people call things that look like food but actually aren’t edible, forbidden ______. Except in reverse.

    I’m not sure if that’s notable or interesting, but I’m just gonna post it because I already went to the trouble of writing it out.

    • PlumOPM
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      43 hours ago

      Delicious pool noodles.

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    78 hours ago

    I’ve never heard of this kind of rice before. Looks really interesting

  • southsamurai
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    1710 hours ago

    Man, it’s a trip how languages can look like they mean something, but don’t.

    Puto bumbong is not what I would have expected those words would mean.

    • @idiomaddict
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      26 hours ago

      The German word for turkey is Pute (or Truthahn, there’s almost always a synonym for basically anything, but that’s used slightly less with cold cuts and more with the bird itself) and I work somewhere where I have to ask whether something is with ham or turkey like 20x a day. Every time, but especially when speaking to a Spanish speaker, I worry that I’m going to mispronounce it.

      I can switch to Putenbrust, but that doesn’t help my brain from shouting “slut tit” at me every time I say it.

      • PlumOPM
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        23 hours ago

        This is my new favorite word in German. Putenbrust really rolls off the tongue.