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In the English version, we have this frame
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Then we see this one
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Nothing out of ordinary, right?

But in the original French version, we have this frame
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Then this
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So now we know that cute Mirza got stolen again, but this time probably ended on the dinner table of a middle class family that happened to like Slift corned beef products.

Well spotted, Pharaoh! Mind, with Mirza being a daschund, she ought to be made into sausages, rather than corned beef. Or one big sausage.

And the dog listed on the "Perdu" poster next to Mirza's seems predestined by to be turned into a burger. (Although from the translation, it looks as if chien berger actually means shepherd dog in French, assuming they've translated that poster directly.)

It's interesting to speculate why the English translators changed Mirza the daschund to Popsie the poodle on that poster. I suppose they must have worried that sharp-eyed children would find the idea of a dog being turned into processed meat just too distressing if it was a dog they'd actually seen earlier in the book, though you'd have thought the whole idea of that gag is so gruesome anyway that it hardly makes much difference.

That that gag is still in place in the facsimile edition. That edition does not have any page numbers, but I'm sure it is plenty easy to find the pages.

TWO DAYS LATER:
I just realized that it is still hinted at in the English color version that pets are being "processed" at the Grynde corporation. The workers tell Maurice that they are on strike because their boss decided to "Cut the cash for the dogs and cats and rats we bring in to be used for salami".

Poor Mirza! ...And poor Snowy! I didn't like this frame because Tintin's dog is doing all the work. He's no horse!!! He's pulling two men on that cart!!

Of course! The English book says it clearly. But it did not let us know that Mirza has become a "Hot Dog"...

I suppose not.

Interesting. I entirely missed the "wiener dog" joke.

(In the US, at least when I was young, a Dachshund was called a wiener dog.)

They're known as "sausage dogs" in the UK, which is obviously the same thing, hence my earlier comment. I wonder if the breed is also called something sausage related in Belgium and that Hergé picked a Daschund with this particular suitability for its processed meat fate in mind. If not, and if this particular pun-like gag only works in English or American, it seems an extra shame that the English translators took the Daschund out of the poster.

Lol! I don't know anything about dogs and thus I missed that sausage joke. Thanks for that.

Meanwhile, I think we should have a shrine or something to pay respect to the poor thing.

How sad!!I have only just realized the meaning of all the posters outside of the cannery