This is a segment of a pizza menu in a Spanish restaurant. If you are bi-lingual you will recognize the amusing error in translation of the toppings on one of the pizzas. If you aren't, ask a friend, or tell us all how they arrived at this translation. If nobody gets it, I will enlighten you in a follow-up post.
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Well Picado and picada both mean chopped or minced (F & M)
Carne picada is mince meat as it is called in the UK or Ground beef as it is called in the US
Descender en picado colloquially means a nosedive, literally it means a chop dive, ie cutting in to the water. It is possible that in some dialects to chop means colloquially to dive in this way.
I'm only guessing, since I only know a little Spanish from helping my son with his Spanish classes at school many years ago.
LenHazell53
Level 9
Jan 9, 2024
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LenHazell53: You did your homework! Good job. Whomever translated the "carta" had only a passing knowledge of English, or vice versa, I don't know how they stumbled across the definition meaning "nosedive", or, why, when they were translating from Spanish to English, they didn't know what it meant. I like the explanation provided by Scott321. I hadn't thought of that. And, Len, I think you must know more than a little Spanish. I had to look it up myself and my Spanish is pretty good. One rarely talks about airplane crashes.
Nosedive? What? Some poor steer slipped on the barn floor?
pamagain
Level 8
Jan 9, 2024
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Nice try, but you have to know what the adjective "picada" means in Spanish.
@fishline79 I think it means a path....
@pamagain No that is Pista
@LenHazell53 Thanks.
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