Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20150609102517/@comment-1496755-20150612053445

Word similarities are the bane of Google Translate, since it has a hard time differentiating them. Our word for "constipation" (zapeck) is based upon the word for "baked" (zapechen) - probably because our ancestors made an association between baking something (making it dry and hard) and trying to push something hard out of one's intestines. How nice.

Word similarities are also the reason some restaurants offer "strangled mushrooms" or "fried language" :P

Yeah, there are two traditional old sausages with such funny names - the "babek" (the word seems to be derived from "baba", which means "grandma") and the "staretz" (old man). The latter is usually called "Banski staretz" because it is traditionally made in the town of Bansko... which has also spawned the translation "old man from Bansko". And of course - you wouldn't want to eat an old man from another town, would you?

You know, I haven't actually eaten any "old man" in my life. I only know that it's stuffed in a gall bladder (most other sausages are stuffed in guts, so this makes it a bit unusual). Mmmm, animal urine container. Tasty!

But the really gross thing (to me, at least) is the "bahur", which is a sort of blood sausage. The worst thing about it is that is usually smells like excrement (especially if home-made), though some people see this as a sign of quality. And even if it doesn't, boiled blood smells bad enough too.