"The Food at Idi Amin is really good"

January 22, 2020, 11:21 PM

arcwelder

"The Food at Idi Amin is really good" - Phonetics are fun.

Talking with some coworkers today about area restaurants. One of them pipes up with a unique restaurant, and the conversation follows:

"The food at Idi Amin is really good, you guys should check it out."

"Sorry, the food where?

"Idi Amin"

"Uh, the brutal African dictator? I don't think that's right?"

"Nah that's what it's called."

"Ok, well, what kind of food is it?"

"Japanese"

"So.. Edamame?"

"Yeah, Idi Amin."

"Spell it.."

"E-D-E-M-A-M-E, Idi Amin."

"Ok, that's not how you say Edamame. It's steamed soybeans, not a despot."

"That's how I've always said it."

"Is it near The Hitler Cafe?"

We had a good laugh, and he's probably going to get teased for weeks over this. I've already come up with some new hot eateries to try out. Pol Potluck, Chez Pinochet, there is so much potential.

Arc.
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January 22, 2020, 11:29 PM

tatortodd

You could name a bakery specializing in German cake-like fruit bread as Stalin instead of stollen

January 22, 2020, 11:30 PM

craglawnmanor

Idi Amin, Nope.

Phonetics, well that's a good time had by all!
Born in the South, went to college further South (War Damn Eagle!!)
Can't tell you how many hilarious mispronunciations I've heard in 59+ years...

January 23, 2020, 03:16 AM

9x18

I sympathize completely. You should hear the guffaws if I try and say quinoa.

Even after hearing it correctly pronounced I still muff it. I can butcher many different words , so why should quinoa be the exception.

January 23, 2020, 04:21 AM

egregore

But apparently it is "ed-uh-MAH-may." I just never took the trouble to look it up until now.

January 23, 2020, 05:28 AM

arcwelder

Key and Peele - Substitute Teacher

January 23, 2020, 08:05 AM

ArtieS

Ok, Arc. That conversation is truly funny.

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

January 23, 2020, 08:37 AM

sigfreund

I’ll have to remember to call the beans Idi Amin the next time it comes up in conversation.

January 23, 2020, 08:42 AM

Veeper

I had a friend that called the bagels at Panera: Adagio bagels.

"Are you talking about the asiago cheese bagels?"

January 23, 2020, 08:59 AM

mr kablammo

Hitler Chicken is the real deal in Thailand.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.

January 23, 2020, 11:18 AM

HRK

I thought it was Ed's Jamames

January 23, 2020, 05:31 PM

arcwelder

quote:
Originally posted by mr kablammo:
Hitler Chicken is the real deal in Thailand.

That's not a photoshop?

January 23, 2020, 05:52 PM

SgtGold

quote:
Originally posted by arcwelder:
quote:
Originally posted by mr kablammo:
Hitler Chicken is the real deal in Thailand.

That's not a photoshop?

Apparently not.

https://www.grubstreet.com/201...r-fried-chicken.html

January 23, 2020, 06:13 PM

sigfreund

I have read that in parts of Asia Hitler is an admired figure.
One of the great ironies of the Nazi era was their acceptance of the Japanese as being worthy to be allied with. Expediency led them to accept many groups that clearly did not meet their original concepts of “Aryan,” but none so obvious as far eastern Asians.