Tortilla

Do you get offended?

When you go to a Mexican Restaurant and the menu has dinner plates written in spanish? Should they assimilate and translate them to english? What's the translation of "Tortilla", is it flat flour thingy?
Oh Mimilundgren - you should stop breathing because illegals breathe so then air supports illegals. You should stop drinking water because water supports illegals, you should stop doing anything that illegals do, i'll visit your grave.
BTW It you thought I was serious, well i'm not, i love mexican food and I don't care if it's in english or spanish, i speak both, learned spanish in school.

Public Comments

1. LMAO
2. Yes, it's a flat flour thingy.
3. I'd say "corn pancake"
4. Do you get offended when someone just thinks your a stupid, ditzy person thingy?
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6. If I am in the USA....hell yes.....unless there is also an english translation aside to the spanish.....kinda like some french restaurants or chinese restaurants do.
   
   
   
   If you are in America, learn English. Simple enough.
7. If it's a "Mexican" Retaurant, why not have the plates written in spanish!?
   
   
   
   A Tortilla is still called a tortilla by the way!
   
   
   
   If you're going to go and eat Mexican food, learn what the dishes/plates are... OR don't go and eat there anymore!
8. Nope. I dont get offended when i go to a Japanese restaurant and the language is in ...you guessed it Japanese!
   
   OR a glitzy French fine dining restaurant..hey what the hell is a bourdeaux...hehhehe
   
   I also cant get offended...because I was taught Spanish when I was 12. :)
   
   
   
   and its not Tor-tee-yah, it's Tor-till-yah
9. Yes lol it should be in English too,lets be fair about this
   
   Oh my they really took this to be a serious question
   
   and as long as I am American and live in America I will speak English Not Mexican or Spanish.you got that!!
   
   I am learning a foreign language,I'm learning Japanese
   
   Your language isn't the only one in the world ...
   
   
   
   I cant believe you think this question was meant to be serious,get a sense of humor damn..
10. No, I don't. If Latin Americans should seriously learn English, perhaps Americans should seriously learn Spanish and other languages. Maybe then you'd know that there is no English translation for "tortilla."
11. Uh, no I don't get offended and people who do shouldn't go to ethnic restaurants to eat. What a foolish question.
12. Like OH MY GOD!! Do you realize how ignorant you sound?
13. The names of the plates should be Spanish...but the description (if there is one) should be in English. Just like at most other ethnic restaurants. What's wrong with assimilation? It doesn't mean that you have to forget your culture.
14. Tortilla is a flat bread . I a kind of unleavened bread, generally made from maize (corn) and with the introduction of wheat by the Europeans, also with wheat flour. This is the most common usage of the term in English.
    
    Can't be translated because is specific dish like the all others .
15. Okay. Um. Here's the thing. If that offends you so much, don't go to Mexican restaurants. That is their language. A tortilla is a tortilla in any language. A burrito is a burrito in any language.
    
    Guess it's a good thing they have pictures in their menus, eh?
16. You are really stupid. Why would someone do that, that's what you go for a ethnic restaurant for, to keep the authenticity of an authentic mexican meal, are you retarded and is it that hard to lear the meaning of a dish?! You sure as hell assimilated to Hamburger (psstt.. it's German)
17. Offended? It does not exist in my vocabulary....
    
    If you or anyone goes to a restaurant with menus in Spanish, and you enter with the "mindset" of getting offended, then you will get offended.
    
    On the other hand, if you want to find out "How someone will reconfirm the purpose of your question, so that you can think you are gaining some type of insight, I will gladly do that!
    
    I do not get offended, I am fluent in Spanish and frequent those types of restaurants, often. You should assimilate, and save the rest of us the waste of time in reading such a pointless question.
18. Wow, you really ask the pertinent questions.
    
    
    
    When I go to a Mexican food restaurant, I expect the dishes will have Spanish/Mexican names and the menu may be partially in Spanish.
    
    
    
    If I eat Thai food, I expect that the menu will be partially in Thai.
    
    
    
    If I eat Indian food, I expect that the menu will be partially in the native language of the region of India from whence the food originates.
    
    
    
    If these people want to sell to English speaking Americans, then there will be English translations as well, or a member of the waitstaff to explain the dishes. If not, I will assume that they don't care to serve Americans, and I'll find somewhere else to eat.
    
    
    
    By the way, I'm in Southern California and I've never come across a menu that is completely in a foreign language with no translation in English. Most business people understand that ENGLISH is the universal language in business. I know that offends many of you, but sorry--it's true across the world.
    
    
    
    I want to add a P.S. to the person who wondered how many first generation immigrants mastered "the difficult English language." My immigrant grandparents, who emigrated to the United States LEGALLY, were REQUIRED to be able to speak enough English to interact with Americans, do business with Americans, and be understood by Americans, BEFORE they were allowed to come through Ellis Island. The only first generation immigrants who cannot muster enough English skills to get through life are the illegal ones.
    
    
    
    And why only Spanish? My ancestors were Norwegian, Scottish and Apache. I want all signs, menus, advertisements, etc. translated into Gaelic. It's only fair.
19. Since I realized our nation was being invaded by Mexico, we quit going to any Mexican restaurants. If I want Mexican food, I make it at home. I will not contribute to any possible illegal business. I do not doubt for a minute that they are full of illegal employees.
    
    
    
    I do not support any business that closed down in "honor" of the damn illegals on May 1....and they won't be hurt just because I don't go, but if thousands upon thousands of Americans quit going they would shut down fast!
    
    
    
    Illegals do not have enough to support illegals....we must stop all the money flow into their businesses...check out
    
    
    
    wehirealiens.com
    
    
    
    and see how many business hire illegals. Boycott those businesses and tell your friends to boycott, as well.
20. LMFAO!!!!!! Thanks!
21. It's a Mexican restaurant. Get over it. If you don't want to read the dishes in Spanish, go to McDonald's. There is no translation for many Mexican foods anyway.
22. Not anymore than people in other countries who use the English terms for American inventions.
    
    
    
    This language thing borders on racism. How many first generation immigrants mastered the difficult English language? I used to find it offensive that the Spanish language was so prevalent in public places. Then I thought about it. Consider the chaos that would occur if the Mexican population in the US had to guess every day or find translators for everyday menial functioning.
23. I think they shuld make an english traduction (only if they are in U.S)
    
    
    
    The gatorade team after 31 years of investigation discovered that tortilla in english is: tortilla
24. OMG! Can't believe people took this question seriously! Come on guys! Show some sense!
25. so what is the problem if you speak both languages. Americans would be pissed of we wanted MC Donald's to translate their menu in Spanish. Dumb huh!!
26. I don´t get offended, but I think to myself, "What about people who come here who don´t speak Spanish, why don´t they translate the menu?" After all, Chinese restaurants don´t have their menus in Chinese because they would alienate customers who don´t speak the language.
27. If its a privately owned business then no, they should not have to translate. If they don't put english on the menu then tough luck, the people who don't like it should go somewhere else. If they don't like the language why would they go to a mexican owned and operated restuarant where there is certainly going to be spanish.
28. thingy
29. OH I have something better.
    
    I do not know Spanish, but I could get by a little if it was on a menu.
    
    
    
    What about ARABIC. I have no idea what all those lines mean.. All I do know is that they read right to left.
    
    I came across a advertisement truck that was in ARABIC.
    
    IN Michigan
30. who doesn't know what a tortilla is?.. haha... we all know what lasagna is right?.. i love mexican food, i love italian food, i don't care what they're called..
31. No but what does that have to do with immigration?
32. Here in Arizona it is the "authentic" mexican food places that consistently have bad health department write ups.
33. lol, your just an idiot not worth answering
34. oh for crying out loud, you need to get a life. there is nothing more pathetic than someone who obviously turns things around to suit their views, no matter how ridiculous it sounds