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Engrish    November 03, 2005

On The Daily Show the other night was some guy who'd invented Hufu, a tofu-based food product colored and textured like human flesh. His idea was that cannibalism was bred into people as a base instinct, and Hufu would allow them to experience the practice of it without actually doing it. He looked like some slick marketing hotshot wanker too. Probably make a million bucks. I already hate him.

Anyway, at the T&T asian foods supermarket a couple of days ago, The Girl pointed out a boxed product on the shelf and said 'Hey, that looks like that Hufu stuff that guy was peddling.' And she was right, it kinda did, but that wasn't the funny part.

God, I love engrish. It's all so culturally fucked up.

UPDATE    The Girl adds that there was a subtext which I missed and which is unclear in this ill-quality cellphone pic: the label says "COCK on the mountaintop". Even better. Probably some reference to an obscure Zen sect, she reckons.



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