You are a cabbage

[robjh]

A French colleague – une collègue to be precise – has just called me a cabbage.

To be fair, ‘tu es un chou’ sounds more endearing in French than its literal English translation, and I am now feeling all warm and appreciated.

Have you ever been called a vegetable, and why?

 

[Archie_tect]

Sure it was 'chou'?

 

[vernon]

One of the great misconceptions that's propagated by those without a decent command of the French language. Context is everything.

You were called a cake.

Choux

Here are some petit choux

 

[Spinney]

A French colleague – une collègue to be precise – has just called me a cabbage.

To be fair, ‘tu es un chou’ sounds more endearing in French than its literal English translation, and I am now feeling all warm and appreciated.

Have you ever been called a vegetable, and why?

As long as your father did not smell of elderberries....

 

[Brandane]

He was speaking franglais you shoe.

 

[robjh]

One of the great misconceptions that's propagated by those without a decent command of the French language. Context is everything.

You were called a cake.

Choux

Here are some petit choux

The perils of ambiguity

of course the context was quite clear hence my warm and slushy feelings about it

 

[Spinney]

Hmm, my little profiterole....

I think I, too, would feel all warm and slushy if an attrative member of the opposite sex said that to me!

 

[Fnaar]

*sings to tune of Simon and Garfunkel's El Condor Pasa*

"I'd rather be a cabbage than a cake..."

 

[Dayvo]

I lived in Sweden for many years and was only ever called a w***ker English, but was never called 'a swede', much to my relief.

 

[rich p]

My old boss used to say something along the lines of, 'I may look like a cabbage but I'm not green'

 

[Dave 123]

People who have a funny turn if the consume gluten are celeriacs.

 

[Ganymede]

My old boss used to say something along the lines of, 'I may look like a cabbage but I'm not green'

Was it "I'm not so green as I'm cabbage-looking"? That's from my SiL's family, ie I'm not as stupid as I look...

 

[User169]

A sign once went up on a fridge at work:

"svp vrijhouden voor kolven"

A Dutch to English translation in Babelfish came up with "please reserve for cabbages".

Suffice to say, it means nothing of the sort!

 

[Archie_tect]

... and the vegetables? They'll have the same.

 

[Drago]

I know a guy called The Suede. Or is that Swede?