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[RedBaird]

 

 

This reminded me of an episode of "House" in the USA, when his patient had a "mysterious disease" and it turned out that the guy was allergic to "Brazil Nuts" but he had eaten some on a neighboring country, where they had a different name for the nut.  

 

Then I looked up "Brazil Nut" and found this!  😮 

 

  😮 "Abundant",  

 

ADDED:

Bolivia : While "almendras" translates to "almonds," this term is widely used for Brazil nuts in Bolivian Spanish. 
Suiriname: Suriname, Brazil nuts are commonly known as "kastanjes".
 

That USA guy had no chance at all! 😄 

 

 

 

Edited Monday at 07:18 PM by RedBaird
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[Snake in the Grass]

51 minutes ago, RedBaird said:

 

 

This reminded me of an episode of "House" in the USA, when his patient had a "mysterious disease" and it turned out that the guy was allergic to "Brazil Nuts" but he had eaten some on a neighboring country, where they had a different name for the nut.  

 

Then I looked up "Brazil Nut" and found this!  😮 

 

  😮 "Abundant",  

 

ADDED:

Bolivia : While "almendras" translates to "almonds," this term is widely used for Brazil nuts in Bolivian Spanish. 
Suiriname: Suriname, Brazil nuts are commonly known as "kastanjes".
 

That USA guy had no chance at all! 😄 

 

 

 

 

I'm actually not surprised, these are just names. I like how in English we say a "French toast" whereas in France we hardly never eat any and i don't think it is considered here as within the French culinary tradition. By the way, we just call it "pain perdu" here, that is "lost bread" as we use stale bread to make it (originally).

 

I also like how plane trees has been planted extensively in Europe, and French people took seeds and grew them in Shanghai during the French concession area. Now the Chinese call them 法国梧桐 or French Wutong because of that reason, wutong being a kind of tree they have over there (i.e. Chinese parasol tree);

In the meantime, the species is a hybridization from two species, and one of them is from China, and yet Chinese call it French wutong (plane trees are a popular street tree choice from across Europe).

 

The French kiss is one more good example: why French?? 😄 i think using or not using tongue is a universal choice !

 

 

[RedBaird]

42 minutes ago, Snake in the Grass said:

I also like how plane trees has been planted extensively in Europe, and French people took seeds and grew them in Shanghai during the French concession area.

 

" Some North American species are called sycamores (especially Platanus occidentalis),[3] although the term is also used for several unrelated species of trees."

 

I had heard of "Sycamores", but not "Plane Trees". 😄 

 

 

 

 

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