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ChuckECheese
October 7, 2009 10:29 PM
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The menu references to juicy anatomical maladies makes it sound as if Alan has stumbled on a 5-element TCM cookery.

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nybiker
October 7, 2009 10:29 PM
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I would also like to know what is U-Toy Vegetable? Or even just what is U-Toy?

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Ginseng108
October 8, 2009 12:17 AM
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@nybiker: I believe they were trying to transliterate \"yau choy.\" This is a common and popular leafy green used in Asian cooking (such as southern Chinese/Cantonese, my background). A semi-literal translation in Cantonese is \"oil bearing greens\" which makes sense in light of the fact that this is a variety of rapeseed, the plant from which canola oil is obtained. The link to the full menu for the Green Tea II restaurant describes the cuisine as \"Hong Kong...\"cuisine. which jives with the southern Chinese connection. Some of their dishes actually sound quite yummy.

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VivaciousD
October 8, 2009 12:11 AM
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@nybiker: U-Toy is an odd, mangled spelling for \"yu choy\", which is a leafy green vegetable common in Cantonese cuisine. It is delicious when steamed with a bit of sesame oil and garlic or when stir-fried.

There's a picture and some more information here: [www.chinesevegetables.co.uk]

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magic8ball
October 8, 2009 1:29 AM
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@VivaciousD: What, there wasn't a wikipedia-flavored page you could link to?

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Coles_Law
October 7, 2009 11:02 PM
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@nybiker: Looks like this menu needs a disambiguation page.

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Scarficus Rex
October 7, 2009 10:35 PM
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For the first couple months, the dish had a pretty basic sauce that most people agreed was a little spare. Later, one of the cooks expanded it to be a little thicker and more flavorful. Several other employees filled out the recipe until customers felt that it was pretty good. Since then, the cooks have begun bickering endlessly over whether the recipe should use 1 teaspoon of brown sugar or 0.9 teaspoons, and air their grievances in lengthy notes posted up inside the kitchen.

A few of the more discriminating customers began to notice that the flavor of the sauce varied slightly each night, as cooks removed each other's changes and added their own back in. Finally, after waiters began intentionally sabotaging the recipe to include \"1 tablespoon bear semen,\" the owners fixed the recipe to its latest revision (sans any obvious vandalism) and ordered the cooks to submit all proposed changes in writing.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the flavor of Wikipedia.

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Tambar
October 9, 2009 5:00 PM
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@Wuhao: The funnest thing I've read in a long time. Will you please go work for the Leno show?

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339point4
October 8, 2009 12:49 PM
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@Wuhao: i need read no further. the thread ends with Wuhao. =)

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mythago
October 8, 2009 2:17 AM
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@Wuhao: You win the internet! I should warn you, though, that it is very hard to clean.

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Quidnam
October 8, 2009 12:06 AM
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@Wuhao: Some people in this world would definitely pay extra for the bear semen.

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The Porkchop Express
October 8, 2009 6:05 PM
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@Quidnam: You know I have to: I make my bear semen at home.

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MostlyHarmless
October 7, 2009 10:35 PM
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I will be sorely disappointed if Smashville does not come up with a witty one liner for this one.

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dorianh49
October 7, 2009 10:37 PM
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Every bite is a little bit different. Sometimes, a bite will disappear and you'll be redirected to a non-related bite.

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foofish
October 7, 2009 10:45 PM
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Sometimes the beef turns into a twelve year old boy screaming about genitalia, but if you wait thirty seconds, it'll become beef again.

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H3ion
October 7, 2009 10:49 PM
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I can't wait for Burger King to put those descriptions on its menu. Whopper - All beef patty. Good for clogging arteries and increasing sodium levels. Yeah, makes me want to see their new design.

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Lucky225
October 7, 2009 10:51 PM
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Anyone else find it suspicious that the phone numbers on the menu don't actually work?

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lehrdude
October 7, 2009 10:54 PM
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Where is the \"Cream of Sum Yung Goy\"...?

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Lucky225
October 7, 2009 10:56 PM
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Update: I called Green Tea in Newton MA (Linked from greentea framingham's site), apparently GreenTea Framingham has been closed for a year!!!

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Neilbert
October 7, 2009 11:56 PM
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@Lucky225: Darn, I was looking forward to going there for Beef Brisket in Wikipedia Flavor tomorrow.

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Mr_D
October 7, 2009 11:12 PM
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\"Tangerine peals\". Hee hee.

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InThrees
October 7, 2009 11:16 PM
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[Citation Needed]

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Cant_stop_the_rock
October 7, 2009 11:17 PM
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I'm trying to figure out how that could have happened, and I can't come up with anything.

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Razor512
October 7, 2009 11:18 PM
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Hmm what will happen if you take a bite of the beef brisket and a bite of spam at the same time?

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Taed
October 7, 2009 11:38 PM
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Perhaps this is a translation error. Imagine an email conversation such as this:


Parent: The new menu looks good, but I can't figure out a good English translation for . Ideas?


Child: Did you try Wikipedia?


Parent: Thanks, I'll use that.

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speedwell (!)
October 7, 2009 11:53 PM
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@Taed: This gag is too old to even be an urban legend. In the joke, it did, in fact, happen exactly the way you explained, except the parent was \"an old Chinaman\" and the child was \"his college-educated son,\" and the dish was \"Chicken in Dictionary sauce.\"

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pecan 3.14159265
October 7, 2009 11:42 PM
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@Taed: From my experience, the adult would leave the technical mumbo jumbo to the kid.

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bhaughey
October 7, 2009 11:46 PM
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I think I know how this happened. If you're typing in Word sometimes, if you start typing a word, it will pull up something from your clipboard and paste it if you hit enter.


So perhaps \"wikipedia\" was pasted accidentally from \"whiskey\" flavor or something.

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The Porkchop Express
October 8, 2009 6:10 PM
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@bhaughey: One of my favorite asian joints has all types of \"fork\" dishes. Fork fried rice and all.


Funny thing is that the menu is really, really well done other than that. color photos and all.

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mythago
October 8, 2009 2:17 AM
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@bhaughey: I know people who think sabotaging a co-worker's Autocorrect function in this manner is a great prank.

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Bob Lu
October 7, 2009 11:49 PM
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The Chinese name of that dish says \"花椒\" flavor. 花椒, which is from a number of species in the genus Zanthoxylum, is very often simply translated as \"peppercorn\" but is actually not the thing as the peppercorn you can find in any grocery store in US.

The proper English name of 花椒 should be \"Sichuan pepper\".

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Laura Northrup
October 8, 2009 12:27 AM
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@Bob Lu: Woohoo! Someone comes along with actual facts! Thank you.

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trustsatan
October 8, 2009 12:01 AM
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The generic Szechuan place around the corner from my house has many dishes that come, according to the menu, \"with fungus...\" Although it is easy to tell their fungi come from a can :(

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radleyas
October 8, 2009 12:31 AM
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That looks like the kind of thing you'd see on [www.engrishfunny.com]

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xnihilx
October 8, 2009 1:27 PM
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@radleyas: I agree. I don't know what it's doing here to be honest. Slow news day???

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The Porkchop Express
October 8, 2009 6:11 PM
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@xnihilx: you read the article and then went this far into the comments for that?

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jaredgrubb
October 8, 2009 12:35 AM
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I know that I've used Wikipedia to translate nouns. For example, \"hash\" is a symbol, a drug, a food, a math function, etc; my dictionary may not have all of these, and in the small print may not give me enough information to tell the difference in the foreign translations... So, I can find the right article in the English WP and then hope there's a link to my target language.... So, maybe this is how it went:

Chinese writer: How does XXX translate into English?

Chinese translator: It looks like it's called Beef Brisket in Wikipedia.

Chinese writer: Thank you... [writing down \"Beef Brisket in Wikipedia\"]

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eaglearcher
October 8, 2009 5:59 PM
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@jaredgrubb:

Although unlikely, this is the most plausible explanation yet. Seriously, how did this happen I wonder.

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Grrrrrrr, now with two buns made of bacon.
October 8, 2009 2:31 AM
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That reminds me of another Chinese restaurant. They wanted an English banner, so they put their Chinese name into an online translator. They ended up naming the restaurant \"Translate Server Error.\"

[adweek.blogs.com]

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PSUSkier
October 8, 2009 3:39 AM
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I'm going to guess this means that there are little nuggets of fresh ingredients in there, but it's mostly made of crap.

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TCama
October 8, 2009 4:00 AM
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There's a good chance that while you're eating your beef brisket, one of the cooks will walk up to your table and throw a piece of cow crap in your dish. It's relatively easy to remove, but chances are it'll happen again a few minutes after you remove it.

Also, some of the ingredients may be from unreliable sources. Just shout \"CITATION NEEDED\" if the cook tells you he got the ginger from his cousin's farm.

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The Porkchop Express
October 8, 2009 6:13 PM
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@TCama: can people also use it in arguements or will it be shot down right away.

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Missing in Vlissingen
October 8, 2009 4:14 AM
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I always find the NPOV flavor to be quite bland.

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Real Cheese Flavor
October 8, 2009 12:40 PM
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This is the second Chinese menu I've seen with Wikipedia mentioned in it. I thought it was funny and printed it out and stuck it on my door with all the other weird stuff I find.

Sadly I can't seem to find the image again to upload or link.

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Smashville
October 8, 2009 1:35 PM
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Smashville
October 8, 2009 2:14 PM
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Also, if you send the dish back more than 3 times in a 24 hour period, you are temporarily banned from the restaurant.

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Pete
October 8, 2009 2:55 PM
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Wikipedia flavor is where everyone in the kitchen has touched the food, but not one of them was a cook.

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lajoan
October 8, 2009 3:30 PM
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We used to go to a Chinese restaurant in West Hollywood that served items with strange names...like Robot Chicken. Apparently Seth Green ate there too. Never saw him, though. BTW, the Robot Chicken was scrumptious.

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Saving_is_fun
October 8, 2009 4:25 PM
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Not bashing Meg or Consumerist, but why are items \"tagged\" for one-time use words. I doubt we will see \"wikipedia flavor\" again, so why create a tag that I will click on to be brought to a page that only has one story?

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The Porkchop Express
October 8, 2009 6:14 PM
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@Saving_is_fun: but, if we do see \"wikipedia flavor\" again and there is no tag, what then?

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Ubik2501
October 8, 2009 4:45 PM
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[Coriander needed]

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Powerlurker
October 8, 2009 4:47 PM
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A now defunct Chinese restaurant in my town once had a dish called \"Beef in Empirical Sauce.\" I guess if you wanted to find out what it was, you had to try it yourself.

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TessTalks
October 8, 2009 5:23 PM
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I stopped dining at my local Chinese restaurant after I ordered spare ribs and picked up my third rib to take a bite to discover . . . THERE WAS ALREADY A HUMAN BITE TAKEN!!!

Yuk.

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angryneo
October 8, 2009 7:59 PM
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It's found in the Communal Trough in the buffet...ya know, adding everyone's contribution to the mix.

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QrazyQat
October 8, 2009 11:58 PM
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The flavor is what you get when everyone in the kitchen puts in what they want, and some get annoyed with others putting in something so they put in more of what they want, and it's supposed to come out neutral but it's a crap-shoot.

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