As heard in a random Danish home
Nov 21st, 2007 by Peter
Peter: I’m hungry
Wife: I’m not hungry
Peter: But it’s soon 17.00, what did you eat before I came home?
Wife: Nothing But I drank a big glass of juice.
Peter (looking at the empty glass with blood red traces): Juice? Looks more like red wine to me.
Wife: No it was juice. I mixed some apple juice with the cherry juice.
Peter: We don’t have cherry juice. I never heard of such thing. You mixed the cherry sauce (normally served warm for Ris ala mande which is a cold Danish rice pudding).
Wife: It was Juice.
Peter: No, it’s sauce.
Lather, rinse, repeat……
Haha – nice one :-)
I loved that one, Peter. Absolutely summed up the subtle cultural gaps that go with these cross-cultural couplings.
Me to C via MSM: “What are you doing?”
C: “I’m reading a website. People are debating a cultural issue.”
Me: “What’s that?”
C: “There are nude pictures of Wei Tang, the actress in Lust, Caution. People are saying because she has dark nipples that she is a slut who enjoys sex too much.”
Me: “WHAT? Chinese believe that dark nipples means a woman is a slut?”
C: “Yes. Of course.”
Me: “And this is a ‘cultural issue’?”
C: “Sort of”
Me: “I fear for your country. “
That makes sense… If anyone is interested, I can reveal that I am not a slut then :-)
Ask your wife about the “dark nipple” theory sometime. I’d be curious if this is a widespread belief.
When you mentioned it, it rang a very far bell, but I’ll ask just to make sure.
Justin: Asked the missus. She never heard about it. Guess it’s a Canto Chinese thing :-)