Japanese Escargo Express

… Oh! I’m so slow, I never thought about the es*cargo* thing, just that it was escargo(t)!

Thanks so much Mato! I’m a Spanish-speaker and I’m often fascinated by localization choices when I watch things with subtitles or dubbed into Spanish so I love learning about this kind of thing.

It’s also neat to see where the English and Japanese feed into each other for future iterations.

@September I literally didn’t notice the cargo pun until I looked at my Fangamer Escargo Express bag that morning. Both the question and the joke came to me at that moment.

So wait? Ask you questions here in the comments or someplace else like email?

Either way, although e-mail/the contact form will be easier for me to keep track of stuff.

Besides the “cargo” in Escargo, I was always under the impression that the pun was in the fact that hand-delivered mail can also be referred to as “snail-mail” and that it was “express”… because, y’know, snails are ever so fast…

Actually “Escargots” is French for “snails”, so I kinda always the same thing as Adam.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that missed the es-cargo pun. Between that and the snail-mail concept, man that is the most layered and awesome pun ever. I’m not a pun fan, but the ones in Earthbound are the BEST _<

Escargo = Snails. Snails are known for being slow

Oh dear. The position of those 2 is…. suggestive >_>

Escargot

Cargo

Go

I can’t believe I never got that pun until now.

it still works with Escargot, since the t is silent you say ‘cargo’ anyways.