Foi'atelolo
Calling a woman "fat" and "full of oil" is likely to earn a guy two tight slaps and plenty of disdain.Unless of cause, you are in Tonga.
That's the place where any aspiring Cassanova can sweep a Tonga woman off her feet by saying to her: 'Foi'atelolo, ta ō mu'a mata māhina hopo!'
That means "O fat liver full of oil, let us go and watch the moonrise!"
Taken from the National Geographic, apparently the liver of a baked pig is the choice morsel reserved for chiefs, and so fond are the Tongans of fat and oily food that any right-minded Tongan girl is enormously pleased at such flattery.
It amazes me what one can learn from a sleepy Sunday afternoon chillout at a cafe in Vivocity...
posted by Al @ 12:46 am
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