mccReading via mastodon translate a thread by a French poster about recent actions by Macron and partway through got slapped in the face with the discovery that "I'll eat my hat" is an idiom in France as well as America ("Bon, je mange mon chapeau, et c'est pas très bon.")
Is this… how universal is this? Do they eat hats in Germany? Russia? What percentage of earth has a local-language idiom for eating hats?
Nameless Blob@mcc We do eat hats in Hungary as well. I think the idiom simply got translated and spread across some of the world.
Howard Chu @ Symas@namelessblob @mcc i'll make a wild-ass guess that this all traces back to North America due to French & English/American fur trappers wearing animal skin hats