The Gulf has been overwhelmed by sandwich memes after a comment by Qatar’s foreign minister was mistranslated to Arabic.

Al Bawaba reported. 

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told MSNBC on Friday that “Qatar is sandwiched between two big countries which is [sic] Iran and Saudi.”

But instead of translating the meaning of the phrase, many Arabic outlets reported that Al Thani had said “Qatar is a sandwich between Iran and Saudi.”

For Twitter users in the countries that have been boycotting Doha since June, the opportunity to mock their neighbors was too good to miss and “Qatar is a sandwich” took off.

Some even suggested that the comments could be the direct result of food shortages because of the Saudi, Emirati, Bahraini and Egyptian land, sea and air embargo of Qatar.

“They seem to be really hungry if their foreign minister is saying that. One Qatrika without mayonnaise,” tweeted @diabsq_diab.

Previously reliant on its neighbors for food imports, Doha initially depended on daily food deliveries flown in by Iran and Turkey following the regional rift.

Qatar’s relationship with Iran was among the reasons cited for the abrupt suspension in diplomatic ties announced on June 5 this year. It has since restored full diplomatic ties with Tehran, despite the boycotting states demanding it curb relations with Iran as one of 13 conditions to end the crisis.

Tweets ordered “two Qatars with mayonnaise” and showed the foreign minister as the holder of a sandwich stall named after Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

There were lots of inevitable jokes about tiny Gulf state’s size, with some making reference to the Saudi crown prince’s comment last month that Qatar is a “very, very, very small problem.”