Posted on 03/22/2014 2:27:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Be careful about ordering Pizza Patron's La Ch!#gona pie in mixed company. The Dallas-based restaurant group is making enemies with the name of the new pizza -- a Spanish descriptor questionable enough that Pizza Patron is giving it curse-word treatment by using symbols in marketing materials.
The word "la chingona" loosely translates to an adjective like "bad-ass," explained several Spanish speakers, but it isn't a descriptor many were willing to utter aloud over and over.
"This is a word you use in a very relaxed atmosphere with people of your same age or background," said Victor Arriaga, deputy consul at the Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas. "If you're going to meet your in-laws for the first time, you probably wouldn't use it."
The brand director at Pizza Patron was more candid: Some of the franchise owners "hate" the name and have refused to sell the pizza, said Andrew Gamm, brand director at Pizza Patron. In fact, about 10 to 15 percent of the company's 90 stores have elected not to sell the La Ch!#gona Pizza when it becomes available at other stores on March 31.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Oh, don't tempt me. What I'm thinking would get me banned.
I will point out that puta in Nicaragua is not the same as in Mexico. Something like "completely" or "in total"
The “In Total” pizza. It’s more pie than you can eat! ;^P
Stop, you're killing me / grin
There is a word in Spain that means "dresser drawer", in Latin America the same word is a vulgarity. I am cheating, my daughter is fluent in Spanish and lived with a local (poor) family in Nicaragua for 3 months. I've been texting her for tips right now.
The same chain also takes PESOS in Dallas. Sadly I know this because my cousin was a seed investor in the chain.
Could maybe be translated to “The F#%k Yeah” Or the F#%king Big One.
My Spanish is so limited I wouldn't even attempt it now.
“El Mala Burro”
chingadera es a la fuerte
Yep. The first “meskin” cuss words I ever learned.
A taco in Spain is the sole of a shoe. It’s something else in a real gutter.
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