14 May 2006

The Multilingual Department of Redundancy Department

Said to me by the cashier at Moe's "...would you like some queso cheese with your chips?" Perhaps I should have gotten some pollo chicken and some bean frijoles with a cerveza beer to right along with my chips.

I wonder if my los gatos cats would like to have some?

2 comments:

Viv said...

See

Schmendrick said...

"Queso cheese" isn't that hard to see. Since "queso" has come to be an English adoption meaning "Mexican spiced cheese sauce," "queso cheese" isn't so far off from something like "salsa sauce." Even with adopted-but-mutated word meanings, it sounds a little silly. But it's not mind-numbingly ridiculous.