Illustration of Japanese companies using vaguely European sounding words to make their product look fancier.
Asses cooked matcha langue de chat cookies
Illustration of Japanese companies using vaguely European sounding words to make their product look fancier.
8 Comments
Depress_Mode@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 49d
Oh boy, Cock of Asses cat language cookies, my favorite! Miiiii-aouuuuu!
oce@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 49d
In this case, langue is French for tongue, it's a real simple French cookie name. The Japanese version is commonly cream sandwiched between two langue de chat style cookies.
Depress_Mode@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 49d
Langue can also be interpreted as "language" (English has the same double meaning for "tongue"), but yes, you're right; in this case it does refer to actual cat tongues because langues de chat are usually shaped somewhat like actual cat tongues, rather than squared off like we see here. I just thought the idea of a cat language cookie would be kinda funny
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 49d
This seems to really exist as a name for a type of bisquit, although without the final 's' (Asse is a place in Belgium, so like "Dijon mustard" this just means "cookies from, or rather in the style of, Asse").
means "cat tongue" and that one definitely exists as a name for a type of bisquit.
This product combines two cat tongue style biscuits with a filling, maybe that's why it seems to be named after 2 separate cookie types.
TBF to OP, yes Japan (and other countries) does often do that. I always like to hold against that the example of "Western" people getting tattoos of Chinese symbols they know nothing about.
oce@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 49d
Nice, I didn't know about couque biscuits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couque_de_Dinant
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 49d
Here in the UK, cock refers to a dick. Here we read this as dick of the ass.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 49d
"Cooked Ass?"
Nah, I'll pass.
RichardNixos@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 49d
She couque on d'Asse till I cream