Google Translate has an app for phones where it will live translate any text you point it at. I’ve been testing it out recently, and it’s … got a long way to go. Here are some of the funnier mishaps:
Mmmm, delicious flesh pocky.
Here’s some more weirdly named candy sent to us by a friend in Japan. It tastes like … soap brownies 🙁
We received some weird snacks from Japan this week. These Pocky boxes were a special Valentine’s Day promotion. The names are really weird:
I see what they were going for with “Papa” and “Mama” in there, but what is “Sukky” ?? Maybe 好き (suki)?
Here’s a candy with an unusual name:
I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks delicious!
And we found some funny English on a bag of garlic butter-flavored Cheetos:
Oh no, Japan discovered comic sans…
