Guests dining at the Erbil International Hotel in northern Iraq were invited to help themselves to a heaty dish of "Paul is dead", thanks to a bizarre translation error.
The label, spotted by Twitter user Hend Amry, was placed in front of a dish of meatballs in the luxury Kurdistan hotel.
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Amry shared another image of a well-meaning translation gone wrong, this one hanging above a poultry butcher:
The mix-up inspired other multilingual tweeters to share their own favourite facepalm translation moments.
There was this classic cross-border bungle, when Swansea council officials mistook a Welsh translator's automated out-of-office email for the translation they were after.
The result? A bilingual road sign which told English speakers that lorries were prohibited and Welsh speakers: "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated".
And then there was the time the client wanted a warning sign on a tanker to say "No smoking" in Arabic - and the translator obliged, oh-so-literally:
Other inspired contributions included an unusual suggested method of consuming dessert:
As well as a menu item you definitely wouldn't want to order for your first meeting with the in-laws:
Some of the mistakes weren't only a linguistic headache, they were downright sinister:
While others should definitely be fixed, pronto:
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