As regular readers know, I usually avoid Mail Online because it is just too easy, but I could not resist this bumper bundle from today’s (June 12, 2018) report on the meal served at the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore. Translations supplied.
six-course meal that included three deserts (= desserts)
Singaporese dishes (= Singaporean)
Hennesey cognac (= Hennessy)
Hennesy ( = ditto)
prawn’s cocktail ( = prawn)
Haagendazs vanilla iced cream (Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream)
preferred flavor ( = flavour in UK)
potato dauphinois ( = dauphinoise)
Crystal ( = Cristal champagne)
HOW DO CONCLUDE THIS? ( = gibberish)
And, fittingly, this is how the story ends:
Time magazine reported early in the administration that Trump got served two scoops of vanilla iced cream at the White House, while guests got a single scoop, although