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    Brazilian name for Tri-tip

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    I'm in Brazil for work this week and came across this humorous translation.

    I've since found out that this is actually what we would call "Tri-tip" but I kind of like their name better.

    Motion to change the name of Tri-Tip to what Google Translate thinks it is. Do I have a second for this motion?

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    Last edited by Huskee; September 15, 2022, 10:21 AM.

    #2
    It depends on whether it's an itty-bitty braised titty or a grande braised titty. obrigada!

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    • gboss
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      in the end, does it really matter?

    #3
    Can't wait to roll out the new name. Might even give the same name to my kettle...

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      #4
      I've gotta show my wife (Brasaleida by birth)...she'll get a kick out of this, along with wondering who the heck came up with this name.

      I'll report back later.

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        #5
        If we made that change..........demand probably would exceed supply by a significant margin...........just sayin'. And would we buy by size rather than weight? E.g. A through GG?

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        • gboss
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          I think they would run into the most problems in Canada if their beef was labeled AAA grade....

        #6
        Just coming back to this, my wife understood it as a cut of meat, but then saw how Google translated and fell to the floor laughing.

        Here is how Wiktionary defines it:

        Noun

        maminha f (plural maminhas)
        1. Diminutive of mama; small breast
        2. a cut of meat
        https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maminha

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        • Huskee
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          I suppose it's like breast here eh? Context matters.

        • HotSun
          HotSun commented
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          Ah, good point, Huskee.

        #7
        The first thing I found googling "maminha" was a description of a Brazilian cut of meat that is part of the bottom round area.

        Since the butcher's art varies from country to country, each culinary culture similarly varies from all others in the way meat animals are b...


        Google Translate is hilarious in this instance though!

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        • gboss
          gboss commented
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          Yes, they are not using the same terms we do for a lot of the cuts, even in the translation. Sirloin = what we would call strip loin (NY). Rump= what we call top sirloin.

          If you dig in a little bit more, it really is the tri-tip, part of the bottom sirloin, but that definitely gets lost in translation.

          Fraldinha gets translated as flank. But it's really the flap/bavette.

          And the google translate app that my colleague used definitely said titty and not breast, haha

        • gboss
          gboss commented
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          I apologize for dropping this text and not leaving any of the sources I found. Today is travel home day. I'll come back with some of the things I was reading as soon as I have a moment to gather them.

        #8
        Our daughter lives in Chile, and they cut their meats differently. It’s really different, so much so that there are thousands of websites helping foreigners navigate the differences. You will find differences all over the world, of course, but they seem to be more different in Chile.

        Foreigners find Chilean cuts of beef confusing. They don’t look like the cuts they know and the names are even less helpful: l omo vetado ...

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        • gboss
          gboss commented
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          That's some very interesting information at that link. Thank you for sharing!

        • Mosca
          Mosca commented
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          My daughter did the Spanish-to-English translation of the website for Agricola Mollendo, the largest producer of Wagyu beef in South America!

        • gboss
          gboss commented
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          Wow, that's even more impressive! It's obvious how (deservedly!) proud you are!

        #9
        I spent 2 weeks in Japan 9 years ago. The "Engrish" was often humorous. You could tell that many places just used google translate or whatever - and 9 years ago machine translation was not as "good" as it is today. The popular obvious tourist areas where the staff could comfortably speak English of course had perfect translations. As did the government run cultural heritage places (castles, remnants of imperial palace grounds, trails of great significance leading to shrines or one of many "views", or the major Shinto or Buddhist shrines. But some other places? Yea.

        I also saw many t shirts with English writing on them. I saw them being worn by Japanese people and on racks in stores. Quite often the shirts were nonsense, or even said things that make you do a double take just to verify that you had not consumed too much alcohol. And then you realize that no, you DID read that correctly. You might even see people casually wearing shirts that say something like "I can be shit". Well thanks for the warning I guess!! Ill just stand on the opposite end of the metro car if you don't mind....

        Also if you have clothing with stuff written on it in a language you cannot read - might not want to wear it on your vacation to someplace where everyone CAN read it. Because for all you know that shirt says "I like to take up the backdoor" or something. Maybe you make some new and VERY outgoing friends though? So who knows. How adventurous are you! I'm just saying consider packing a DIFFERENT shirt.
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        • gboss
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          "Even if you fight, you can't win."



          "Is that some kind of Eastern s***, man?" "Far from it, Dude."
          Last edited by gboss; September 16, 2022, 12:30 PM.

        • SmokeyGator
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          gboss I also saw a warning sign about Japanese murder hornets, but there was no English translation. The Tokyo Metro trains all had stickers with raccoons pointing at a hand that was caught in something. The raccoons appeared to be laughing. So....it is funny when someone else (NOT YOU) gets their hand stuck in a train door? I am not exactly going to disagree with that!

        #10
        jfmorris Here's some of the stuff I found:

        scroll pretty far down here.
        A simple and useful guide for meat cuts featuring beef cuts charts for United States and Brazil. In addition, you'll find out what cuts are the best for wet and dry cooking, American primal cuts of beef, Brazilian cuts of meat, and how to find those same cuts in the United States.


        More:

        Learn how to speak like a Brazilian using local expressions! Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License


        Um dos cortes favoritos em qualquer churrasco brasileiro, a Maminha é o corte ideal para os amantes de carne que não abrem mão de uma experiência 481.




        The terms get re-used for different locations so frequently, it seems.
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        • jfmorris
          jfmorris commented
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          Good info! Thanks!

        #11
        No wonder I like Tri Tip!

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