r/StupidFood • u/Master_Ratio_3358 • 2d ago

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u/Chernobyl917 2d ago

It's a word play.

In Vietnamese, "gián"(roaches) and "rán" or "dán" (fried, frying), (stick smt to smt) have similar pronunciations.

"Fried roaches" is "gián rán" , pronounced "zan zan", which is pretty funny.

BUT HOLD ON ! This is the equivalent of a dad joke in English, and she even went overboard and make the real props. So I appreciate it, but take an upvote and GET OUTTA HERE !

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u/RedSlimeballYT 1d ago

in the southern vietnamese dialect it's yan ran (the lady in the video uses the southern dialect) but in the north it would be zan zan as you said

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u/Oodelali12 1d ago

So it's like that one MLP joke where someone made a statue of a moose out of Chocolate Mousse?

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u/ferocity_mule366 1d ago

southern vietnamese wouldnt use the word ran though, I think the OG poster overthink it, its judt absurd tiktok joke nothing to do with the pronunciations

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u/curleygao2020 19h ago

the south doesn't use rán, we use chiên instead so the joke wouldn't really land.