Go there for the salt and pepper chicken, end up being served
*But what’s in it?*
*Legally, we can only say that it’s food.*
There is an illegal one, but if you go in, they show a wonton disregard for your human rice.
I’m guessing that’s something lost in translation. It might mean something more like ‘legit food’ in the original language.
Just a guess though.
You get ill shortly after.
There was a Chinese restaurant called “decent seafood restaurant”. I think it’s if you look for a translation from Chinese for “nice” or “legitimate/authentic” you would get words like “decent” and “legal”.
Probably just means no cats, dogs or horses to be found on premises.
There’s (or was when I lived there) Only Foods and Sauces
It was a misunderstanding with the sign maker ‘Beagle Food’ was the correct request.
5* hygiene rating too!
I’m still (very occasionally, it’s not a full time profession!) trying to find the most awful, shabby, depressing looking Chinese/chippy I ever saw in my life.
I was working in Manchester, around 2015. Got a bit lost coming out of the city as I’d normally head west back towards the Wirral, but ended up east of the city centre. I know it was near the Man City stadium.
Stuck in traffic down a side street and glanced over to see this place – yellow plastic looking windows, a hatch type thing you made an order through, the sign was faded and dated, zero decoration or anything inside. Looked like an AI drawing of “a depressing tiled room, old and yellowing”. Disturbingly, it was open for business.
Tried to take a photo, but traffic started moving.
Never been able to find it since on Street View. But I reckon it very much should have been called Illegal Food.
Made this place look like a palace!
[Their website](https://legalfood.co.uk/about) offers no explanation, although in Spanish ‘legal’ can mean great or trustworthy.
Google translate issue, the chinese is authentic 正源
Apparently, local lore has it that the owner asked for Regal Food, and the sign maker either misunderstood or misheard. No idea if it’s true or not, or why it wasn’t corrected.
They protest too much, methinks.
I bet that place is stacked full of illegal food!
“We say it’s chicken; you think it’s chicken; we’ll all pretend it’s chicken.”
I miss the Royal Tandoori in Lincoln. Damn the hygiene rating system and The Lincolnite for getting them shut down.
The owner changed his name to ‘Legal’ for legal reasons.
If you were selling illegal food, that’s the first thing you would write on the front, surely.
It’s ‘Legal Food’ just not necessarily HUMAN food…
This is done to keep English speakers away so they can get on with their money laundering operations in peace.
That er
That upper window’s seen better days
Well, they closed down the illegal one as it made all the birds of prey sick.
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“WE GOT LUMPS OF IT ROUND THE BACK”
There’s a place in Boston airport called [Legal Seafood](https://www.legalseafoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Terminal-E2-scaled-1-2000×1500.jpg), which raised some questions for me.
Pangolins must be illegal
Go there for the salt and pepper chicken, end up being served
*But what’s in it?*
*Legally, we can only say that it’s food.*
There is an illegal one, but if you go in, they show a wonton disregard for your human rice.
I’m guessing that’s something lost in translation. It might mean something more like ‘legit food’ in the original language.
Just a guess though.
You get ill shortly after.
There was a Chinese restaurant called “decent seafood restaurant”. I think it’s if you look for a translation from Chinese for “nice” or “legitimate/authentic” you would get words like “decent” and “legal”.
Probably just means no cats, dogs or horses to be found on premises.
There’s (or was when I lived there) Only Foods and Sauces
It was a misunderstanding with the sign maker ‘Beagle Food’ was the correct request.
5* hygiene rating too!
I’m still (very occasionally, it’s not a full time profession!) trying to find the most awful, shabby, depressing looking Chinese/chippy I ever saw in my life.
I was working in Manchester, around 2015. Got a bit lost coming out of the city as I’d normally head west back towards the Wirral, but ended up east of the city centre. I know it was near the Man City stadium.
Stuck in traffic down a side street and glanced over to see this place – yellow plastic looking windows, a hatch type thing you made an order through, the sign was faded and dated, zero decoration or anything inside. Looked like an AI drawing of “a depressing tiled room, old and yellowing”. Disturbingly, it was open for business.
Tried to take a photo, but traffic started moving.
Never been able to find it since on Street View. But I reckon it very much should have been called Illegal Food.
Made this place look like a palace!
[Their website](https://legalfood.co.uk/about) offers no explanation, although in Spanish ‘legal’ can mean great or trustworthy.
Google translate issue, the chinese is authentic 正源
Apparently, local lore has it that the owner asked for Regal Food, and the sign maker either misunderstood or misheard. No idea if it’s true or not, or why it wasn’t corrected.
They protest too much, methinks.
I bet that place is stacked full of illegal food!
“We say it’s chicken; you think it’s chicken; we’ll all pretend it’s chicken.”
I miss the Royal Tandoori in Lincoln. Damn the hygiene rating system and The Lincolnite for getting them shut down.
The owner changed his name to ‘Legal’ for legal reasons.
If you were selling illegal food, that’s the first thing you would write on the front, surely.
It’s ‘Legal Food’ just not necessarily HUMAN food…
This is done to keep English speakers away so they can get on with their money laundering operations in peace.
That er
That upper window’s seen better days
Well, they closed down the illegal one as it made all the birds of prey sick.
https://xkcd.com/641/
Look, it’s LEGAL, OK? All above board, nothing to see here.
We pay our taxes and everything.
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