Food On Stamps!

Brazil

2008

Gastronomy Luso-brasileira

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Brazil

2005

Brazil-France

This stamp depicts a typical food of north region of Brazil, and is part of 6 stamps issued celebrating the friendly between Brazil and France.

Cape Verde
Traditional Cuisine
June 1, 1998
The stamp set depicts caldeirada de peixe and xerem com triginato.

Portugal
Traditional Desserts
March 29, 2019
The stamp set features Queijadas de Sintra, Fatias de Freixo, Cavacas das Caldas da Rainha, and Mogados do Algarve.

Malaysia
Festival Food - Chinese
January 24, 2017
The strip of three stamps depict sticky rice cake and oranges, salad and gourmet seafood platter, spring roll and lotus soup.

Pictormark. Australia 2009
Sc#3069

Singapore
Traditional Confections
April 17, 2019
The stamp set features Kaya Bread, Kuih Semperit, Jilebi, and Sugee Cake.

"World Food Day," printed by lithography, and issued by Turkish Republic of Cyprus on October 16, 1981, Scott No. 111.

- nethryk

Senegal
Senegalese Gastronomy
September 5, 2008
The stamp set features Bassi, Yassa poulet, Thieboudiene, and Yassa poisson.

Angola
Traditional Dishes
37kz: Jerky with pumpkin seed pie
40kz: Manioc leafes with prawns
59kz: Fish with vegetables
153kz: Kibeba (calamari with vegetables)

Cabo Verde
Local Cuisines
10$: Cozido (Stew)
60$: Trotxida (Soup)
100$: Xerém (Cornmeal puree)

Mothers would (rightfully) never agree with this one.

Here is a bag of HARIBO Color-rado candy shown on a personalized (Marke Individuell) stamp from Germany. Stamp is probably from the Haribo Candy Co, but could be from a large vendor. In 1920, Hans Riegel founded Haribo Co. in Bonn. The company name is an acronym for HAns RIegel in BOnn.

From germandelistore.com website, "Licorice, gummi candies, and sweet, sugar-coated foam candies all in one bag...Haribo color-rad is ranked #2 in the top 20 most popular Haribo products in Germany today."

Yum, sugar-coated foam candies! I assume a bit was lost in translation, and this means something like marshmallow or circus peanut candy.

Yes codehappy, the text was auto-translated. In one part of the description, "marshmallow" was used, but in the text I used, the program used the meaningless term "foam". My bad.

No apologies necessary, I thought it was amusing. In civilian (non-stamp collecting) life, I work a lot with machine learning systems. It simultaneously amazes me how far machine translations have come, and also how far we have to go before they're even half as good as human translators.

German and English are very closely-related languages with a lot of shared grammar and vocabulary; machine translations between them still sound awkward more often than not. Try it between languages with little or no relation (say between English and Japanese, either direction) and you'll get a bunch of nonsense, usually.