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Restaurants often go to great efforts to translate their menus for English speakers. But sometimes their best intentions, well, just don't quite go to plan. Detonation eggplant, curried grab and crap sticks sound delicious? That's just the start of it. We've rounded up some of the funniest menu fails from around the world below.

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Cowboy Bone, or Button up the Duckvia
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2009_07_25_DSC06260 Pieces Body of Cuttlefish t1.5via
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Forest Frog's Ovidcut braises Sydneyvia
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Explode the bellyvia
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Grilled Unimaginablevia
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written by
Eleanor Aldridge
updated 01.04.2020
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