Chorizo

Having bilingual kids can be a monumental challenge, but also downright hilarious.

Helen, 6, loves making her own story books. Yesterday's front cover showed a round pizza-like object edged with arrows and other "misoules". Inside was a woman with rays coming out from her head, and more round objects. What's this darling? I tenderly enquired. Oh, it's the king chorizo, and inside are all his other chorizos, and they're capturing men and ladies and MESSING WITH THEIR MINDS.

You're totally mad, I managed to say between guffaws. This stuff was weird but fairly par for the course (Helen is a one-off, to put it mildly).
Later, I was on the phone to a friend who appreciates Helen's weirdness but also speaks better Spanish than me. She collapsed in fits of laughter when I told her, and so did I when she enlightened me.
In Spanish, a 'chorizo' is not only a round spicy sausage, but also a thief or other criminal. Poor Helen had been playing a game at school with her Spanish friends, and totally got the wrong end of the sausage.