Housemate asked me to buy Helwani Bros hotdog from the grocer ("What do I say?" "Hotdog.") but he ran out. So I stepped into the next-door frozen food shop. The following conversation was in Arabic.
Me: Assalamualaikum. Do you have hotdog?
Miss storekeeper: Hotdog? What is that?
Frankfurter? Cmon don't get into nominal aphasia now.
Me: It's like kuftah but it's not kuftah.
Miss: Suguk?
Me: (grinned) It's like suguk but it's not suguk.
Miss: You mean susij?
Me: (grinned wider) Yeah susij! That's it.
Miss: Yes we have...
It's been six years. Still a duck in this world of sheep.
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