If someone is speaking in a way that’s confused or unintelligible, a Dutch saying applies: Er is geen chocola van te maken describes something incomprehensible, but literally translates as “You can’t make chocolate out of it.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “You Can’t Make Chocolate Out of It”
If somebody says something to you and it’s just absolutely incomprehensible, you just can’t understand it. There’s a great Dutch idiom that translates as, you can’t make chocolate from it.
Is geen schokala van te maken. You can’t make chocolate from it because I guess making chocolate is complicated.
But I just love, you know, somebody just spews some kind of word salad and you just say, I can’t make chocolate out of that. Some kind of chocolate salad.
A chocolate fountain.
Right.
I can’t get my cup under the chocolate fountain.
Oh, I like that even better.
