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And You Thought Spinach Was Soggy


engrish food - frozen r*pe leaf

Frozen R*pe Leaf
Engrish Photo By: Jillian G

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  1. ror says:

    last. this is so funny lolomgzomgzomgzomgz RAPE.

  2. jesse32 says:

    haha. I didn’t know that grew leaves.

  3. 6262 says:

    Post Fail.
    Rape also is – a plant, Brassica napus, of the mustard family, whose leaves are used for food for hogs, sheep, etc., and whose seeds yield rape oil.

  4. Scott says:

    Neil, yes, it is. In the US the FDA allows rape seed oil to be sold under the name canola oil. This is the only food product that they allow to be sold under another name, for obvious reasons.

    • Eddy says:

      Actually, “red snapper” is used for all kinds of other fish in the rockfish family, because “red snapper” sounds much better than rockfish. This may be more of a restaurant issue, but there are plenty of foods that are sold strangely.

    • ringo says:

      Actually, canola is one particular strain of rape that contains less urushiol, and is therefore considered safe for human consumption (indians have been eating the other stuff for centuries, but it makes the FDA nervous).

  5. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA says:

    Rape is just a version of broccoli. Quite bitter, but really good.

  6. axman says:

    ive allwayz found rape rather bitter myself actually………

  7. pkchukiss says:

    Protect your mouth with condom!

  8. Private Parts as ordered around by Corporal Punishment says:

    I’m not going to comment on this one at all.

  9. hlyshtvwls says:

    I agree that this is kind of a fail. Who doesn’t know about the plant rape? And it’s not really ambiguous. The translation is correct. I’ve seen some Engrish that had “rape” in it in a much more humorous way. Just referring to the plant called rape isn’t humorous on its own.

    I’m also kind of bothered that “rape” is censored in the description. Even if you’re reading it as the sexual assault and not the plant, it’s not an obscenity. You hear newscasters say it all the time. Making it taboo to even say the word puts a stigma on the victims.

    Double fail.

  10. Ramfis says:

    I told my mom how much I hated spinach! She never listened to me!!

  11. plantgirl says:

    Canola is derived from rapeseed. canola has been bred to not have as much sulfur in it. (sulfur in the brassica family is what gives some people gass when they eat cabbage or broccoli). this helps with the quality and taste of the oil. canola oil takes much less processing than rapeseed oil.

    rape leaves taste a lot like spinach.

  12. Doragon Shinzui says:

    Amusingly enough, rape is a plant. It’s in the mustard family. technically, this is completely right.

    of course, I’m not going to go to a grocery store and get rape, so it’s still funny.

  13. Sarah says:

    Yeah, sorry to say this one ain’t funny. Rape is a plant. Shows the intelligence of the poster, perhaps?

  14. JJ says:

    ‘plant rape’.. Thats one I’ve NEVER heard of and a thought I don’t want to entertain *punctures eardrums with a rusty railroad spike*

  15. PJ says:

    Agree with previous posters – aside from being 1. unfunny and 2. not a mistranslation, the title “And You Thought Spinach Was Soggy” is pretty offensive.

  16. sara says:

    again, rape is a plant. this is not a fail….only a fail for the person who posted it, seeing as how they didn’t realize that it’s an actual plant *headdesk*

  17. Neko says:

    And Rapists have to pluck these leaves as punishment if arrested

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  19. annarox101 says:

    where do these things grow? omg gotta get one

  20. Jonathan says:

    R**e is also a conjugated form of the French verb r**er meaning to grate.
    Which is why graters elsewhere on this sight have the word on them,
    French Canada has to have both languages. This is also where the word rapier comes from, it is a sword for cutting thin.


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