"치맥을 먹읍시다!"

Translation: Let's eat chicken and beer!

[Ben278950]

치맥 is its own thing which is chicken and beer.

[hippietrail]

So just any kind of chicken with beer then?

[Montanzi]

No deep fried chicken

[FurstWasser]

Isn't 치맥, 치킨하고 맥주, same goes with 소맥 means 소주와 맥주. And 치킨 means fried chicken. so why is "Let's eat fried chicken and beer!" not accepted?

[LesChristiansen]

Eat beer?

[ChrissieM0]

Apparently in Korean saying "eat" instead of drink is very common, I think I've also come across "eat your medicine"

[hippietrail]

In most languages you "eat" medicine. English is the exception.

[YouAreMyPotato]

We "take" medicines in Spanish too.

[TurtleJell]

Japanese also say drink your medicine

[Padi_Evans]

We also say "drink your medicine" in my local language Twi

[DiyaMondal2]

Yes true. English, and Spanish (because I know that a bit) have the exceptions for the verb "drink"

[nadasabs]

Indonesian say "drink medicine"

[KeelKawaii]

Portuguese is another exception :)

[JeffersonB538722]

Pt-br is drink your medicine "Tome seu remédio"(Take your medicine)

[LizankaKorean]

In Russian we say both: drink and eat, but drink is more common

[Umida619624]

Russian people drink medicine

[NooGuild]

Indeed, a preferable English translation would be 'let's have chicken and beer'

[urmamgeilol]

you can eat beer?

[SheldonCol3]

You can in Korea.

[Padi_Evans]

You can eat chicken with beer

[musicamuse]

is this like a portmanteau?

[the_crait]

A lot of Korean words do this to shorten compound words.

[Milka707103]

I tried with 'let's have chicken and beer' since that's more natural than 'let's eat chicken and beer', and it was accepted

[conniestar16]

Should it be 치킨하고 맥주는 먹읍시다!

[ms.chievous]

If you wanted to spell everything out, sure - but 치맥 is actually a legit compound word for the Korean word "chicken" and "beer". For more information, I found the Wikipedia article enlightening: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimaek

[wintertriangles]

치맥 is a combination of 치킨하고 맥주

[Garret240751]

치맥 is a contraction of 치킨하고 맥주

[KindleRous]

치맥 is the contraction for 치킨 + 맥주. As the two are so commonly had together and sooo many diners cater to just that combo, its become its own word. Like 소맥!

[margarita_angel]

네!

[noor0503008]

Haram

[JohannaSky1]

I get that 먹 means eat, but what is the Korean word for lets?

[haruu._.haru]

Koreans like shortening words.. this is just one of their shorten words

[SeanFogart4]

"Let's eat chicken with beer!" Accepted, thank goodness! Using "and" there in "English" makes me cringe.

[emi_blueee]

So is 치맥 its own separate dish?

[MansiSriva3]

치 from 치킨 and 맥 from 맥주 ...together they make 치맥. I really like how they make it simpler by joining words together.

[jijiyahh]

I think I've heard 치맥을 many times in a kdrama