suppermariobroth: Top: Yoshi’s Lassi, a drink available exclusively at the Yoshi’s Snack
suppermariobroth: Top: Yoshi’s Lassi, a drink available exclusively at the Yoshi’s Snack Island food stand at the Super Nintendo World theme park in Japan. Lassi is a type of yogurt-based drink originating in India.Bottom: the name “Yoshi’s Lassi” is a pun that works only in Japanese. The name is spelled “ヨッシー の ラ ッシー” (”Yoshi no Rashi”), whereby the two words rhyme. According to the system of romanization of Japanese that is taught in Japanese schools, the long “shi” sound in both words is romanized as “ssy”, and conversely, loanwords that end with a “ssy” sound are transcribed with those characters. For a long time, this system was used to romanize Yoshi’s name in Japanese materials, so that it was spelled as “Yossy”. As such, the park management likely had the pun “Yossy’s Lassi” in mind when creating the drink, overlooking that this romanization is no longer used for that character.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source -- source link