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HeChomk 56 points 3 years ago

I can't bring myself to belive the server wasn't just an asshole. Someone coming into a restaurant, using Google translate and asking "please may I have a grenade juice?" would not make me think "I have a grenade and am here to blow up the place." Its waaaaay more likely that the dumb machine fucked up the translation. You gotta be a massive xenophobe to jump to that conclusion.

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LeberechtReinhold 29 points 3 years ago

Not to mention, Pomegranate in Spanish is Granada, literally Grenade. It's also one of the more famous regions in Spain, and it exports a lot of that fruit, which, as is usually the csse, has both Spanish and Portuguese on the labels to reduce costs.

No one in Portugal should jump to that conclusion unless they are ridiculously xenophobic.

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1050053 3 points 3 years ago

Have you or anyone here looked up the Portuguese word for Pomegranate? Because it's veeeery different.

The waiter might just been ignorant and uneducated. Plenty of those in Lisbon and everywhere else in the world.

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Knusper 3 points 3 years ago

I do also imagine xenophobia being involved, but the tourist might have just translated the word "grenade" and held that up on their phone screen.

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Stamets 4 points 3 years ago

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