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engrish funny cleaning flavor

Cleaning flavor
celeryand peanut

Submitted by: dunno source via Engrish Funny Submissions

Found on a buffet in Shenzhen, China

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  1. Lawlin' at things noone else ever lawls at like the word moose says:

    Hey, my second first… but what exactly IS? a celeryland peanut?

    • Droll not Troll says:

      Ha! your inaccurate reading has created a new land: Celeryland, the nuttiest kingdom of them all. Coming soon to Disney World.

    • PoodleGroomer says:

      a celeryand peanut flavored bisacodyl.

    • tytoon says:

      Yam is the common name for some species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae). These are perennial herbaceous vines cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. There are many cultivars of yam.

      The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) has traditionally been referred to as a “yam” in parts of the southern United States and Canada, but it is not part of the Dioscoreaceae family.

      Although it is unclear which came first, the word yam is related to Portuguese inhame or Spanish ñame, which both ultimately derive from the Wolof word nyam, meaning “to sample” or “taste”; in other African languages it can also mean “to eat”, e.g. yamyam and doya in Hausa.[citation needed]

      A Nigerian word for yam is adamwanga, meaning “Adamo’s food”. Adamo was a chief notorious for his ability to consume incredible amounts of food, and was even banned from a neighboring village for his refusal to stop.[1]

      Yam tubers can grow up to 2.5 meters in length[2] and weigh up to 70 kg (150 pounds).

      The vegetable has a rough skin which is difficult to peel, but which softens after heating. The skins vary in color from dark brown to light pink.

      The majority of the vegetable is composed of a much softer substance known as the “meat”. This substance ranges in color from white or yellow to purple or pink in ripe yams.

      Yams are a primary agricultural commodity in West Africa and New Guinea. They were first cultivated in Africa and Asia about 8000 B.C.[citation needed] Due to their abundance and consequently, their importance to survival, the yam was highly regarded in Nigerian ceremonial culture and even worshiped.

      Yams are still important for survival in these regions. The tubers can be stored up to six months without refrigeration, which makes them a valuable resource for the yearly period of food scarcity at the beginning of the wet season.

      Yams are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Palpifer sordida.

    • paws4thot says:

      A peanut with a negative net calorie count? (energy obtained – energy used in masticating and digesting)

  2. Droll not Troll says:

    It’s a good thing the caption says “Found on a buffet”. The thing at the top of the pic looks like a wooden toilet seat, and if someone was using a flavoured cleaner on it…. Never mind why; what kind of person would want to know that?

  3. BuckInARut says:

    Cleaning flavor. Which brings us to-

    Comet! It makes your teeth turn green!
    Comet! It tastes like gasoline!
    Comet! Will make you vomit!
    So eat some Comet,
    And Vomit,
    Today!

  4. laconejita says:

    Ok so they have celery and peanuts with cleaning flavor. I don’t think I’ve ever tasted cleaning flavor. Will it taste like clorox?

  5. dot...dot...dot... says:

    i’d rly like 2 know what it is all about… the chinese makes no sence either!

    • Dreadful Spelling Sprite says:

      Oh, dear… “Sence” makes neither sense nor cents, unless you’re getting a penny for each misspelling. *ding*

  6. dr handle says:

    Celery and peanut sounds like a pretty dire combination – I suspect that I’d need flavour cleaning if I accidentally ingested this.

  7. Mark. Gooley says:

    This one really needs a translation of the Chinese above the Engrish.

    A note on “cleaning flavor”: before Chinese immigrants introduced cilantro to Mexico, its niche in Mexican cooking was occupied by papalo (Porophyllum ruderale). Most people unfamiliar with it think that it smells like detergent or industrial cleanser. Just a coincidence: surely this dish doesn’t contain papalo.

  8. Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori says:

    Even the Chinese is wrong. They made the character for vegetarian dish 斋 into 齐– some evidence that the original has been mistaken in traditional Chinese and carried over to simplified.

    This should refer to a vegetarian dish flavoured with Chinese celery, probably with Chinese fungus and wheat gluten.


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