• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    4 months ago

    Just a few days ago I was watching Antiques Roadshow and learned that the Michelin man apparently has a name: Bibendum.

    Can’t imagine why everyone just says “Michelin man”, lol.

    • variantsOPMEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Wow how did they come up with that

      • ekode@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        🍻

        The slogan Nunc est bibendum (“Now is the time to drink”) is taken from Horace’s Odes (book I, ode xxxvii, line 1).

        Wikipedia