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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • In turkey the bird is named Hindi, after India. In the Netherlands is called after Calicut. In Portugal, it’s called after Peru, however in Arabic it’s an Ethiopian rooster. In Malaysia is called a Dutch bird.

    The explanation is that people through America was India, hence calling it after India a lot (Peru being what Portugese thought was America).

    However the people who first encountered the bird they thought it loaded like a particular woodfoul that was imported from Turkey, calling it a turkey bird.

    India and other Asian countries only know it from European trade, calling it either Turkey, Dutch chicken or something else like fire bird (china).









  • I’ve always had that dislike. I even do not wear clothes with text on them as I feel like I’m constantly saying that. Often the texts designers put on clothing is nonsensicalb stuff. F.i. Hollywood, I’m not from there, I’ve never been there, why would I want to say Hollywood the entire day?

    There’s surprisingly little overlap between text people put on clothes and what I’d like them to say but there’s a shitload of clothes the people feel like it needs some text on it.

    Anyway that’s my pet peeve.