Happiness is a … what?!?

Okay, I have a weakness for the odd translations that autmoatic translators can cough up. So I was looking around Joyo (the Chinese branch of Amazon), thinking about finally ordering that Chinese 25 volume Peanuts set (alas, apparently out of print), and when Google gave me this translation for the name of a jigsaw puzzle, I just had to share (with no idea of how accurate this translation is – it could just be an item with a really odd title):

Snoopy — happiness is a series of puzzles to snuff golden roast sausage.

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