Airline serves baffled passengers 'dog food' in awkward translation blunder

What makes anyone think it was a bad translation?

this is funny and we all need a good laugh!i do recall being served at times sonmething we jokingly used to call "mystery meat" on some flights!the very best in flight food i was ever served was on the "old" continental dc-10,(first calss)where they actually carved prime rib from a cart to your liking,and also made a desert from a cart to your liking with toppings..oh for "the good old days"!!

Dog food on some flights would be better than what they serve

Language translation CAN be dangerous! I remember when Braniff put up billboards in Miami telling passengers in Spanish that they could “Fly naked on Braniff”!

Makes you wonder what they were serving back in economy!

Aww shit, they mixed up the orders. The dog food was supposed to go to the coach passengers.

Simple honest mistake. Seems they placed a national flight menu on an international flight.

test run , maybe better that cricket meat.

The airline probably said, “Our catering should be upgraded. People are unhappy with our chef inspired cuisine. Let’s try a blend of Purina and Cesar and call it a beef patè.”

How do we know this wasn't just blatant honesty??

I was once offered "snake" on a business class flight on EVA. Turned out to be "snack"!

I wasn't sure exactly how high the probability was that this was Spirit and not a mistake, but I knew it wasn't zero.

That is funny! I can understand them be Baffeled!

Nothing like a little Alpo when you’re good and hungry at 35,000 feet.

I have traditionally refused to fly to any place where dog is on the menu!

I remember great engine flights, but those 19 cylinders slamming away; 38 spark plugs of platinum; I feel safer today!

The article says it is not known what the dish actually was. I am very interested in knowing what it was. I very much agree with the article saying that the Chinese need to get better translations and that they could easily do that if they wanted to.

In Korea I hear they eat Shih Tzu and consider it a delicacy. Perhaps that was the "imported dog food"!

Dog is eaten in China - May not have been a mistake.

I’d really like to know what it was supposed to be. Was there not a Chinese language version in the same menu that someone could try to translate properly?

When we were kids, one of my cousins took a bite of a Gaines Burger on a dare (if you're old enough to remember "the canned dog food without the can" lol). He said it wasn't bad, but I think he was just trying to get us to take a bite.

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Is this Canada Air shenanigans "again"? Proudly serving imported "dog food"? Where from China?

Canine cuisine is popular in China. I suspect that perhaps what they were serving to their homeland passengers might in fact be "dog".

Clearly a mis-translation; was meant to say imported dog as food. Chinglish, what are you going to do..Airlines saving money hiring Chinese user manual writers as translators.

Just a sign of things to come.

“ Dog food isn’t designed for the unique nutrition needs of humans, though it is made from ingredients that are technically safe for humans to eat. Thus, it’s not inherently toxic for humans and may be safe in an emergency situation.

However, eating dog food may increase your risk of developing foodborne illness. Children are at greater risk of developing complications related to foodborne illness and shouldn’t consume dog food“