Mike Whybark attempts to translate some ingredients from the French, with unique results:
Gin, of course, was invented by Father Junipero Serra, as a means of keeping the Indians drunk and near the California missions that still bear his name (which, in English translation, is “Taco Bell”). The Hammerin’ Friar, as I have just dubbed him used the waste-product from his many bark-cloth production facilities…
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