What does “orelha de couve-flor” mean in Portuguese?

Grapplers who take enough knocks to the ear end up with a swollen, lumpy one, and Portuguese calls it orelha de couve-flor, “cauliflower ear,” just like English. Among fighters it is a badge of the sport, worn with some pride. In friendly trash talk it is also material for a joke, because somebody will always say the ear looks like torresmo, crunchy fried pork rind.

In this sparring scene one athlete needles another about his “orelha comidinha,” a chewed-up ear, and says it looks like torresmo, a snack most Brazilians know from bars and barbecues. The comparison works because both are bumpy and crinkled. The retort is worth borrowing too: olha por onde anda means “watch where you’re going,” and desculpa, o caramba is a dismissive “sorry my foot.”