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ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

I don't understand that sentence.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

ELI5 How come it seems now the old [wives'] tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

That's still a rather incomprehensible sentence.

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Rephrased to it's intended meaning, that would be:

ELI5 how come it seems now [that] the old [wives'] tale about Vietnamese people eating pets [is now being applied to] immigrants into the USA?

[–] Random123@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

It was poorly constructed i too couldnt figure out the hell they were saying until i saw comments lol

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe OP is from some place with a high Vietnamese population so there were rumors about this? TX, LA, or CA maybe.

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is funny as the Vietnamese joke about Chinese this way, they have a saying that translates as, 'the only thing they don't eat with 4 legs is a table'

[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Even chairs?