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Typos on Restaurant Menus

Kerry Beal

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Kerry Beal

Kerry Beal

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We were at the CFRA food show in Toronto yesterday and there was this great display of award winning plated meals - they appeared to be glass or lacquered - but each was accompanied by the 'menu' description of the meal.

A huge source of amusement for us was this particular description -

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Wonder how much truth there was to it?

Anyway - seen any good typo's lately?

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Out, damned chop! out, I say!

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Alex

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Yes: "typo's"

Or was that intentional? or the Canadian spelling? :wink:

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rooftop1000

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We have a local "fine dining" place that repeatedly spells Cioppino as Cippino on their Facebook updates.

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vloglady

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One of my all time pet peeves is to spell Scotch WHISKY as WHISKEY. There is NO "e" in Scotch whisky.

Single Malt Scotch Whiskey is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG !!!!!! And it's absolutely amazing how many really nice restaurants spell it wrong.

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Genkinaonna

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Any time I see "served with au jus" I cringe...how do you make "with" juice? Is there a "with" plant or animal available for juicing? Maybe it's just me...

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Moopheus

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Any time I see "served with au jus" I cringe...

Incorrectly used food terms are a whole other issue (which has been discussed before). Typos on menus are like typos on the internet--annoying but inevitable.

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Peter the eater

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Those are hysterical! I've seen "Lucky Family Human Beef".

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I just made a cornish game hen with chestnut stuffing. . .

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Peter the eater

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Then there's the subset of chalkboard menus with certain letters rubbed out. "Grass-fed Red An us Steak".

ETA this was at a motel with "Nightly Rat s and Heated Poo ".

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Peter Gamble aka "Peter the eater"

I just made a cornish game hen with chestnut stuffing. . .

Would you believe a pigeon stuffed with spam? . . .

Would you believe a rat filled with cough drops?

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chris-s

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Not quite a typo but at a small hotel in Millau, France, they had a menu in the lifts translated from French into English, obviously using a dictionary.

There were many howlers but my favourite, a dish of gesiers de canard was described as hearts, livers and duck's muffs.

Must be a regional speciality.

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