AI6YR BenLOL
Latin on a hot dog shop in Chicago.
"CANES NOSTROS IPSE COMEDIT"
(according to Google Translate, that is: "He ate our dogs himself.")
#pope #chicago #chicagopope #hotdogs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/pope-leo-chicago-home-town
Megan Lynch (she/her)@ai6yr Not just "a" hot dog shop, but the famous Wiener's Circle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33zPlnhymCU
Jack McBrayer & Triumph Visit Chicago's Wiener's Circle | CONAN on TBS
Erich M.@meganL @ai6yr
Translation is correct. "comedit" is more of "devoured" or "gobbled down" than "eaten", that would be "edit".
For a Wiener like me all this is somewhat surreal. Everybody else calls these sausages "Wiener" except us. In Vienna you need to order "Frankfurter" to get "Wiener". And now these sausages are labeled as "dogs" in the US.😎
These "Wieners" are only one of a dozen different standardized sausages you can buy on the streets of Vienna.
Just to add. My late father was a teacher of Latin btw.
I could well hold a privatissimum here for my US friends on Viennese saussage types that are alle based on recipes stolen from neighbouring countries. If somebody wishes. But before I need to update my thread on HF, because I have got news.
@harkank I did often wonder what Viennese thought of that.
We call certain pastries "danishes" but the Danes call them "wienerbrød"...what do the Viennese call them, I wonder?
@meganL These pastries first named in Paris as "Viennoiseries" during the times of Marie Antoinette, who was guillotined later, are mostly Bohemian kitchen. This all is only attributed to Austria, as Vienna happened to be the capital city of Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia & younameit then.
@harkank Yes, it's often the case that something isn't named after its true origin, but after who first introduced it somewhere or, in the case of negative things, named after enemies with slang like "French letter", which used by Britons. https://idiomorigins.org/origin/french-letter
BTW - "frankfurters" was used in the US as well. First as the entire word, but then shortened to "franks". There's a brand called "Ballpark Franks" and there's a dish called "frank and beans".
@meganL
The famous "Wiener Schnitzel" is "Scaloppine Milanese" btw.
The famous "Wiener Schnitzel" is "Scaloppine Milanese" btw.
Charlotte Walker
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️@ai6yr Pope Bob's Hot Dogs 😀
Chris Samuel@AstroHawk @ai6yr given he was at Villanova in Philadephia he's virtually certain to have eaten traditional Philly food so I think he should be referred to as "His Hoagieness".
@chris_bloke @ai6yr And I thought I was going to get pushback at calling him Pope Bob...
Chris L@ai6yr I think it’s more like “our dogs eat themselves”.
@ai6yr I took a lot of Latin, tho memory fades. But “noun ipsos verb” is noun verbs itself” and for a hot dog spot, it seems reasonably idiomatic?
@jayalane I suspect they threw that into a random online translator, vs. using someone who knows Latin... so....
Johnny Abbott@johnnymonday @jayalane So what would be the correct Latin for the intended phrase?
@johnnymonday @ai6yr ohs that makes a lot more sense.
Robert Riedl 
I notice he did not go to Ohio.
David Brent 📚