Sometimes you see signs that have been translated into German, only not quite translated correctly. This can have funny results. Take this example seen on Lanzarote:

The correct translation would be “ein halbes gebratenes Hähnchen”, ie. one half of a cooked chicken. Unfortunately a “Halb Gebraten Hahnchen” means one half-cooked chicken…

Tags: chicken, translation

Some other posts on this topic that you might like to read:

• More bad chicken translations
• When translations go wrong – the podcast
• When translations go wrong: battered octopus rings

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