I'm practicing my Japanese by reading the RSS feed on the Smash Bros. Brawl website on nintendo.com. I came across this today:

食らっちゃマズイので

Am I right in thinking that 食らっちゃ is a shortened form of 食べられてしまう?

Furthermore, are there message boards or other sites where I can ask these kinds of questions? I wouldn't want to flood the Koohii forums...

Probably a form of 食らう-くらう. You can ask questions like this on http://www.jref.com/forum

Hi akrodha,

The ちゃ in 食らっちゃマズイので is a colloquial contraction of ては.

So this is 食らってはマズイ which basically means the same thing as
食らってはならない or 食らってはいけない, that "it is no good (won't do) if you [do] s.t."

In addition to meaning "eat" or "drink," 食らう　（くらう） also means to "receive" s.t. undesirable.

A fun example is:

この野郎、これでも食らえ！
"Take that, you bastard!"
(Said when punching someone in the face, etc.)

Hey Chadokoro_K, thanks for the explanation! I knew that construction, I just forgot the contracted version. And I like your example! It's going into my flash card program.

And JimmySeal, thanks for the link!