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Contact lenses for dinner

I was staying in Spain with a friend's family. I'm a vegetarian so my friend's mum, a native English speaker, tried to explain in Spanish that I was a 'good' vegetarian as I ate lentils. However, she used the word lentillas and got a very strange look. She said that I ate 'contact lenses'! The Spanish word for 'lentils' is lentejas.

Sent by: Anna

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Anna 2007-08-11

Well, I live in Spain, and not so long ago my Mum and I asked for something like lentejas de contacto in an optica, although fortunately we realized our slip of the tonque quite fast :)

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Natasha 2006-11-09

Gosh, I've done the very same myself, although when I corrected myself, I used the word for 'sequins',lentejuelas, rather than lentillas!

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Julia 2005-07-24

I studied in Spain and my host brother made a great lentil stew. He was very amused when I requested 'contact lenses' when he asked what I wanted for dinner.

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