I was just reviewing my guidebook today in
preparation for my trip to Prague (which I'm taking with my sister).
We started to thumb through the comfort food section, and found it to
be an unexpected source of mirth. We, being of Russian descent, call sausage "kolbasa". In Czech, it
is called "klo"basa. For some reason we found this to be very funny,
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appetizingly (please note the sarcasm) described as a spicy sloppy joe
on fried bread. Another malapropism was the oveshny knedliki. In Russian,
oveshi means vegetables. In Czech, they are...fruit. I would have
guessed that oveshny knedliki are vegetable dumplings, but they are
dumplings filled with berries or apricots. In this case, I believe the
loss in translation is, in fact, our gain.
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