About "global wording"

Question

Long ago and far away, when I first worked in México I went everywhere with my little red book. One evening I went to an elegant restaurant for dinner. When the waiter asked me for my order ,I asked for a ¨filete hueso de te´´. He paused for a moment to digest what I had asked for, he said again: ¿Qué desea señor?, I pointed to the menu showing my choice. After a moment the waiter smiled and said: ¡Ahhhh...usted quiere un T-bone! Well it seems a T-bone is a T-bone wherever you go in this round world.

How many of you have had similar experiences?

*world :D - kanani142, Jan 13, 2011

Oh my! kanani142,caught my typo, gracias! - pacofinkler, Jan 13, 2011

Answer 1

Hamburger!!!

Hamburguesa - pacofinkler, Jan 14, 2011

Answer 2

"Filete hueso de te"? That, to me, is like "steak bone of tea", i.e. pure nonsense. No wonder they couldn't understand it: I've worked in a kitchen for years, and I would have not understood it at all.

That's what I thought of first too. T-bone here is lomo con hueso. - lorenzo9, Jan 14, 2011

But in Mexico I guess it is tibón. - lorenzo9, Jan 14, 2011

"Te" is the pronunciation of "T" in spanish. - pacofinkler, Jan 16, 2011

Answer 3

Sorry, I know it is pretty stupid, but... does this "global wording" have anything to do with man-made CO2?

Probably has more to do with methane ;) - lorenzo9, Jan 14, 2011

Answer 4

Taxi

Photo / foto

Mama

Papa

Answer 5

Gravad lachs

Nice one. - 0074b507, Jan 14, 2011

Thanks :) - chicasabrosa, Jan 14, 2011

Huh? What is that? Google gives me a number of different things for that search, and that's one dish I have never encountered before - at least not under that name! - Gekkosan, Jan 14, 2011

Hi Gekko, then your Google gives different results from mine... but it's spelled differently throughout Scandinavia: Graved laks/lax - chicasabrosa, Jan 14, 2011

Isn't that what they make instead of lutefisk when they don't have any antifreeze? - lorenzo9, Jan 14, 2011

Ah, lox. Ok. I found it with your second spelling. Well, I'm not sure I could call that "global wording" though... - Gekkosan, Jan 14, 2011

Answer 6

i think that's not the case.. in México they might know what a T-Bone is because of the proximity with USA, but you'll be missunderstood 9 out of 10 times if you ask that in other spanish speaking countries, unless you're on a turistic destination.

saludos

Answer 7

Hotdog

Filet mignon

Chateaubriand

Answer 8

delivery

siesta