anyone here know enough Japanese to tell us what this thing is that was packed in with a thing we ordered off ebay that shipped from japan?
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@Felthry it's a black thunder chocolate gateau bar

it's apparently moist and rich

@derFisch ooh thank you! will probably eat that soon because that sounds good

isn't gateau just the french word for cake?
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@Felthry ye, but in japanese it refers specifically to a very dense cake, more on the side of a brownie

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@derFisch huh! now i'm wondering if that's why there was an "old gateau" item in pokemon gen 4, because that always seemed weird to us
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@Felthry @derFisch it's cos it's in a building called the old chateau

@g @derFisch well i know but at the time we had no idea what a gateau was
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@Felthry @derFisch oh right sorry

sometimes cakes market themselves as gateaux in the uk and i didn't realise that wasn't universal

@g @derFisch oh! that's interesting, I don't think we've ever seen that in the US
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@g @derFisch wouldn't be surprised if they do that in canada though what with the frenchiness

frenchiness is definitely a word now
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@Felthry @g they actually call it a chocolatine there (this is a joke)

@derFisch @g honestly wouldn't be surprised though, i imagine canadian french and european french are similarly different to how uk and us english are

probably latin american and european spanish have a similar level of difference too... possibly more so though because of how readily latin american spanish has absorbed loanwords from Nahuatl and other native languages
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@Felthry@awoo.space @derFisch@chitter.xyz @g@cybre.space one of the things I recall from my half a Spanish 101 class was the instructor who was either Spanish but spent several years in Mexico or vice-versa is that this is very much the case. I also recall catching a documentary about one of the international Spanish language networks saying they had to essentially develop their own dialect to avoid perilous differences even just within the Americas.

@Felthry yup! in sprite for it (and the anime) it's even sort of a dense brick instead of like, a slice of cake

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