Peanuts for alcoholics
From the back of the packet (translation):
Delicious! Really delicious!
But some people
don’t know how good they smell,
because a drunkards’ 1 sense of taste
is dulled.
Little Lee of the Flying Daggers 2 is just one such drunkard,
but even though his taste has been dulled,
it cannot obstruct
his fondness for these peanuts.
When the dagger flies out of his hand,
he eats a peanut,
a thin smile breaks across his composed features.
The gratification gained from the peanuts
is equal to that of the daggers flying from his hands!
- Drunkard 酒鬼 Literally “wine ghost”, the colloquial expression for someone who habitually drinks to excess. Unlike the word “alcoholic” in English, the Chinese medical term for the addiction (酗酒者 xu4 jiu3 zhe3) is not used in daily conversation.
- Little Lee of the Flying Daggers (小李飞刀) is a character from one of Gu Long’s wuxia novels The First Dagger of the Wind and the Cloud, more commonly known as Sentimental Swordsman, Ruthless Sword. More here at Wuxiapedia.com. The book has been made into a tv serial, a song, computer game, at least six movie adaptations (posters above), and now… peanuts!
