That’s not chicken!

I love this menu for a South London pizza delivery place:

A none-too-reassuring note advises us that their chicken curry contains real chicken (and I very much doubt that they really hold a trademark on ‘Curry House’):

However, the real gem is the randomly-chosen Chinese character they’ve chosen to decorate the background of the list with. It means horse.

I know that horse is indeed an unexceptional foodstuff in parts of the world—I’ve eaten it myself on numerous occasions, and I’m rather fond of it—but it raises a few eyebrows in England. In the context of the note about real chicken above, it also raises the question of exactly which meats they are using in the other dishes!

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