Food for smiles!

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Food for smiles!

Am I reading too much in this proof of creativity? Is it merely an innocent, straightforward description?

I understand that signboards are meant to guide, provide information about the wares being sold and attract customers. Yet sometimes, signboards in restaurants catch one’s attention for other reasons. The place may or may not promise to tickle your taste buds or satiate your hunger, but it does offer you a reason to smile.

My sincere thanks to my friends and readers for sending me these pearls, proudly 'made in India'.

Do not frown. Bless this mess for extinguishing the heat of the fiery spices used in Andhra food with so much buttar and Punjabi food, if you please!

These seem like wise suggestions! Has anyone ever tried either? I could take names of overweight filthy rich people but with their treasures they would drag me to court, so I leave it to your imagination and general knowledge.

Somebody please advertise for this shop. The place selling GPT with perhaps adrak (ginger) and elaichi (cardamom) too, does not have any customers, that too in this intense cold!


Something for the grammar police- spot the mistakes.

For those who appreciate free gifts, please enrich our knowledge after the purchase!

 Do you know what he wants to do with the coupons?

Such a simple name, we all now know what this is.

Hey girls, this is the time to be a woman in India. Did you even realise that there has been a revolution taking place in our own country? Splendid news. Finally, the gender ratio is so dangerously skewed in reverse that the going rate for a whole male is a mere .48 USD? 

A niece found this gem in a hotel in Jammu. The name is mentioned in case you want to enjoy the batter/cornflax/chocklet/juce.

Not the place I’d expect this slogan to be at! For the benefit of my non-Hindi speakers, the sign outside the ladies toilet says let us have something sweet for Cadbury’s chocolate.

It is impressive that they have such unique alternatives, but tell me what do the genders who have not been blessed with this body part, eat? Besides, what do plants have got to do with this organ?

                                                                                          -Anupama S Mani





























Comments

  1. Sunayana20 January 2024 at 16:59

    What a collection!!!!!

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  2. Anonymous20 January 2024 at 19:27

    Hilarious!
    Another hidden gem is शोचालय
    (शोक मनाने की जगह)
    As a Gynaecologist the 'vaginal' alternative is all in a day's work for me!

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  3. Anonymous20 January 2024 at 19:54

    Good enough to cockles one's heart.

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  4. Anonymous21 January 2024 at 01:17

    Awesome coalition......

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  5. Prakash21 January 2024 at 02:04

    Yes, you can find many humourous signs and billboards in India. For example, Child Beer. Thank you for sharing your observation.

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  6. Anonymous21 January 2024 at 07:56

    Hahaha this is uniquely South Asian, especially Indian.

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  7. P. V. Chowdary21 January 2024 at 10:19

    Sensible, subtle, refreshing, and rejuvenating humour . . . .

    Thanks a lot . . . .

    😁

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  8. S. Manikutty21 January 2024 at 15:58

    Just got up after my afternoon siesta and this set me off for a perfect afternoon! Feeling much energised after reading these gems.

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  9. Anonymous21 January 2024 at 16:48

    Ammo, enough for one month quota for laughing .😂😂😂

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  10. sreeyes21 January 2024 at 18:23

    Oh God.. I can't take more than this Sir... Stomach cramps have started to occur.. 😂

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  11. Anonymous22 January 2024 at 11:53

    Sometimes I wonder? if they can get the spelling of Restaurant correctly, then where do these come from? Icing on the cake was the Chocolate on the Ladies Toilet door! The Gents are sure constipated to say to the ladies, "dont think your sh** smells better than mine! Too funny a read ma'am...

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  12. Hansel22 January 2024 at 11:55

    Sometimes I wonder? if they can get the spelling of Restaurant correctly, then where do these come from? Icing on the cake was the Chocolate on the Ladies Toilet door! The Gents are sure constipated to say to the ladies, "dont think your sh** smells better than mine!

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