The margarine mystery

[Frank Bubacz]

>From: "Gerd Syllwasschy"

>So Egmont seems to have edited Barks' text in this case. But why would 
>they?

I guess they assumed that skunk oil factory sounds too "exotic" for European 
ears. Remember the first translation of WDC 279 ("Once upon a Carnival"), 
when "baseball" was changed to "Tennisball"! I don't know, though, if they 
did the same in the Scandinavian translations.

>(And yes, Frank, the margarine theme is still used in German translations.

Thanks for the info.

>It was at the heart of a Vicar story in one of the last issues of the 
>German
>weekly.)

By Godfrey! Is he really STILL doing the opening story? He did it way back 
in 1979, when I was still collecting Micky Maus...

Frank

In case the birthday boy reads this: Happy birthday, Don Rosa!







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