Learn to speak 'Drive-Through'
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Here is a brief guide to understanding the peculiar language used when you visit a drive-through restaraunt. At these restaraunts you are required to drive up to a large box, possibly decorated with bright pictures animals, and speak your order which is relayed to an attendant in the restaraunt. Unfortunately, these boxes emit sounds that by no stretch of the imagination could be considered English, along with a loud blasting of white-noise and static. The following is a list of phrases and their translations:
P: "Mralcum to Brac-Muccles mayatekkyore grurder?"
T: "Welcome to McDonalds may I take your order?"
P: "Yavantvreyeswizzut?"
T: "Do you want fries with that?"
P: "Nawidunt zirvatere yurth inging ovbir Garkin."
T: "No, we don't serve that here, you're thinking of Burger King."
P: "Peasdun fisclytack demasheen."
T: "Please do not physically attack the machine."
P: "Gzirkube."
T: "So that's three burgers, three small fries, two diet Cokes and a Sprite?"
P: "Sunkoo. Eeffu dlyktum ayekyurwhey to the wein doughtwoyur lefanpeekup yurordir."
S: "Ta, your grub's at the window."
P: "-crackle- -crackle- -crackle- -crackle- yoregrurder?"
S: This generally means that it is the operator's first day and they don't realise that they have to hold the button down while they talk."
With these few phrases learnt, you should be able to translate the general idea of what the operator is trying to tell you. After you make the order, make your way to the outlet window and take a totally arbitrary assortment of food from the person serving you. Pay them, and be on your way, grateful that you were able to communicate at all.
P: "Mralcum to Brac-Muccles mayatekkyore grurder?"
T: "Welcome to McDonalds may I take your order?"
P: "Yavantvreyeswizzut?"
T: "Do you want fries with that?"
P: "Nawidunt zirvatere yurth inging ovbir Garkin."
T: "No, we don't serve that here, you're thinking of Burger King."
P: "Peasdun fisclytack demasheen."
T: "Please do not physically attack the machine."
P: "Gzirkube."
T: "So that's three burgers, three small fries, two diet Cokes and a Sprite?"
P: "Sunkoo. Eeffu dlyktum ayekyurwhey to the wein doughtwoyur lefanpeekup yurordir."
S: "Ta, your grub's at the window."
P: "-crackle- -crackle- -crackle- -crackle- yoregrurder?"
S: This generally means that it is the operator's first day and they don't realise that they have to hold the button down while they talk."
With these few phrases learnt, you should be able to translate the general idea of what the operator is trying to tell you. After you make the order, make your way to the outlet window and take a totally arbitrary assortment of food from the person serving you. Pay them, and be on your way, grateful that you were able to communicate at all.
