Mistakes on Menu's
Yes, the mistake in the thread title is deliberate :)
Okay, I'm a pedant. I don't look for mistakes in signs and menus, they just jump out at me. But last night I read a take-away menu that had been put through my door and it just about trumped every one I've seen before.
Forget pinaepple, burgr or Barcardi - when I reached the chicken section I realised this was a classic.
Tenacy Chicken (think about it)
and Louissianna Chicken
Bless them.
My favourite from last year, was a beautifully decorated chalk board outside a bar, with the words "Christmas bookings now bean taken" lovingly chalked on in a calligraphic style.
Yes, the mistake in the thread title is deliberate :)
Thank god. You made my morning, SG.
Greengrocers apostrophe’s are a serious irritant.
I've also seen "Spicy Beef Tender" at a local Chinese restaurant. It was spicy beef
tendon. Just a little different. :eek:
It's such a common error that it's accepted, but I can't stand this particular language mix.
One of our favorites we saw three years ago:
Errors on a Chinese Menu don't really count, unless the error is in the Chinese version.
I am the same way SG. My ex and I would be driving along and I'd go "did you see that sign? _____ was misspelled." He was always amazed at how things jump out at me.
In staff meeting today I ran to get my reading glasses, came back to my seat, glanced down at the 4 paragraph paper in front of me, and realized my coworkers used "it's" as possessive. It was in the middle of all those other words but it's like it glared at me.
Another case in point. Anyone have a BP station nearby? Look at the sign listing for the "Ultimate" gas. the i and the m are together. I can't illustrate it here but just think of it as the dotted i is the first leg of the m. Who notices? No one. Well, me. I've never figured out why, but I wonder if I point it out to them I win some kind of contest or something. :)
Chinese restaurant errors may not count, but they are fun. A place I used to frequent had "General Chicken" instead of "General's Chicken" (short for General Tso's Chicken). I used to ask them if they had any Specific Chicken. They didn't get it.
The same place also had the "b" in crab rangoon replaced with a "p". Not terribly appetizing, that.
My favorite has always been a hand made sign on a lot in Norristown selling Christmas trees that annonced, "Fur Trees for sale".
My favorite has always been a hand made sign on a lot in Norristown selling Christmas trees that annonced, "Fur Trees for sale".
"annonced" hehehehe
It just makes me batty. I can't even post about it. If I do I'll just start freaking out.
I still remember a restaurant in Brazil that offered "Chicken Gordan Blue." I always imagined being served a steaming plate of blue poultry when I read that on their menu.
Or a waiter named gordon with a blue face...
All the local churches around here are notorious for it... some are hilarious.
About 2 years ago the Houston Chronicle ran a recipe in their cooking section with a recipe that called for "4 boneless children's breasts." My wife wondered aloud if it was sent in by Jeffrey Dahmer (the serial killer and cannibel). ;)
I was recently interpreting over dinner for a mixed party of Russian and English speakers. Unfortunately, the hotel hadn't thought to ask me to translate the menu into Russian, they'd simply put it through a web-based translator ... some of it came out OK, some didn't. I give below retranslations into English of the worst bits:
"Parmesan custard Caesar style: With bread croutons he crisps the parmesan and roasts the garlic dressing;
Bosom of guinea fowl: Cumin puree smelling of a Swedish national, he buttered the Savoy cabbage and the potato paste lump;
Make the tuile biscuits crisp: Layered with pistachio mousse, milk chocolate ice cream and with mixed jam of a berry;
Recent coffee foundation with fine feuers" :eyebrow: .
I know a chip shop where they sells Chip's, Pie's, Chicken Nugget's etc.
It just makes me batty. I can't even post about it. If I do I'll just start freaking out.
Your kidding. :p
It's not his kidding; it's their kidding. :D & :mad: at once.
My favorite restaurant menu-mutterer is still the like of "served with au jus." The French Dip sandwich entry invariably draws my eye to check.
It's not his kidding; it's their kidding. :D & :mad: at once.
My favorite restaurant menu-mutterer is still the like of "served with au jus." The French Dip sandwich entry invariably draws my eye to check.
I agree, and most places do it anyway. :eek:
mmmm...... wonders just how many Russian parties visit Arran...
(and in Douglas Adams mode..... where in the world can I fnd a Russian Interpreter..... why, where else but a small island within the west coast of Scotland...)
With me it runs about half and half. Denny's (U.S. restaurant chain) gets it right... maybe International House of Pancakes does too, can't recall.
Handprinted sign in Chinese takeaway -
"Flied Lice Special"
Ugh.
What were they thinking?? Let's see, we pronounce the "r" as an "l" which means we have to write it that way? Or perhaps they have mostly chinese customers who will understand it.
Or they know full well that every well-meaning, bending over backwards not to appear racist customer that they have says it that way, but not when they order.
I think it's very funny.
take a drive thru this part of western georgia.. but whatever you do if you have a nit picky linguistic bone... do not i repeat DO NOT actually stop and talk to anyone..
I dunno... "When the skull is thick, use discussion by percussion..."
Recent coffee foundation .
Isn't that a non-profit in Seattle?
Hardee's hand scooped ice cream. Perhaps other places use feet?
Help me out. Can anyone think of another way to scoop?
An excavator?
That would be a lot of ice cream...
It's amazing how many errors and nonsensical statements appear in newspapers (including electronic ones). I just saw this in an article about the growth of the Canadian wind industry:
Neil Levine, an EPCOR spokesman, told Reuters there were several delays, and that the project faced opposition from "some people who are not in favor of the project."
I wanted to put this in the Dwellar's IRL thread, or whatever it was called.
That's the problem - I can't remember what it's called!
So tis here instead.
Because it would make Jebus cry.
One of my current clients has "Outside Basement Entry's" on his website -- a website that *I* wrote the copy for, mostly. I did not put the text on the tabs, therefore this is not my error, but it is humiliating. I'm fighting to get it changed but the website guys are awfully stubborn. :(
Couple of years ago, I nearly drove off the road after seeing the following gigantic signs in every window of a huge furniture store:
[CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"]SOFA'S FOR SALE![/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER]
Then there was the brochure I received which advertised a secretarial seminar dedicated to writing better, more professional letters. Not only did it have scare quotes around things that had no reason for quotation marks at all, it also had all the punctuation outside the quotation marks. ARGH.
I wrote them a very polite letter informing them that because they clearly did not know what the fork they were talking about, I would not be attending their seminar. Future secretarial seminar brochures were corrected.
HA!
My mother insists she's never going to write anything to me again, because of my serious mental illness about spelling/grammar/punctuation errors. *
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I wanted to put this in the Dwellar's IRL thread, or whatever it was called.
That's the problem - I can't remember what it's called!
Here.It's amazing how many errors and nonsensical statements appear in newspapers (including electronic ones). I just saw this in an article about the growth of the Canadian wind industry:
[HTML]Neil Levine, an EPCOR spokesman, told Reuters there were several delays, and that the project faced opposition from "some people who are not in favor of the project." [/HTML]As opposed to opposition from people who are in favor of the project, but object to details like density, location, or something?
Not a mistake, but I found it amusing. From a restaurant in Ocean City, MD.
There was no such limit on any other drink. Perhaps they thought the Long Island Iced Tea made for particularly troublesome customers.
I've seen a limit on Zombies, also.
No no no. Take out tequila (years ago when I learned to make them no one used tequila) and replace trip sec with Cointreau. Oh, and COCA COLA. And lemon, not lime.
Oh, sorry, didn't mean to critique the drink. Old bartenders never die...
Why no tequila??
I personally don't have a problem substituting cointreau <-> triplesec. Close enough for my purposes.
Cheers Happy Monkey :)
Re cocktail wars - I'm fighting a losing battle re real Black Russians.
Even more so now I'm not drinking (ie I can't vote with my wallet).
VODKA AND KAHLUA, people. Get your coke in the toilets if you need it.
I am by no means an expert on anything remotely related to alcohol... but I thought Vodka and Kahlua was a White Russian, thus the substitution of Coke making it a Black Russian...?
Why no tequila??
I personally don't have a problem substituting cointreau <-> triplesec. Close enough for my purposes.
The traditional recipe never called for tequila. I think it just makes it taste bad and gives more alcohol punch, which for some is the whole point of the drink. I used to like the taste of them, when a visiting college friend and I went to the bar I would eventually work at and she suggested I try one.
http://coffeetea.about.com/od/icedteaalc/a/longisland.htm
A White Russian is Vodka, Kahlua, and cream. A Black Russian omits the cream.
Coke? I never heard of that in a Black Russian.
No Coke in either Russian. White Russian is a Black Russian with cream added.
A White Russian is Vodka, Kahlua, and cream. A Black Russian omits the cream.
Coke? I never heard of that in a Black Russian.
No Coke in either Russian. White Russian is a Black Russian with cream added.
So I've heard. ;)
Ah well, I don't know who says Coke then. I've never had either drink, myself. I was basing my guess on SG's assertion that someone must have thought Coke belonged in a Black Russian.
So I've heard. ;)
Hey, I'm just a slow typist who is easily distracted. By the time I wrote and posted mine, you'd already posted, with references even.
I've seen a limit on Zombies, also.
Victory has a limit (2) on one of their beers... either St. Boisterous or Olde Horizontal, I can't remember...
FYI: a White Russian with a splash of Coke is called a Colorado Bulldog.
I was basing my guess on SG's assertion that someone must have thought Coke belonged in a Black Russian.
Most bars here think that Coke belongs in a Black Russian. I think because it makes for a longer drink and therefore takes longer to drink, meaning a few rounds are less likely to end in puke or violence?
I've even seen Tia Maria, vodka and Coke described as a Black Russian. Sigh. :headshake
I remember taking my Mum and sister (blimey - so we did used to get on just a little bit!) to Freud's in Oxford back in the early '90s. Gorgeous place - old chapel. I bought us cocktails, and ordered a B52 for myself. The waitress said, very kindly, "This is a
short cocktail you know." It was okay, I knew, but sweet of her to worry that I was envy the other two's long, fizzy, umbrella decorated drinks.
Oh, and I almost forgot the Scotch Aggravation, i.e. a White Russian made with Scotch.
So, we've strayed from grammatical errors to drinks? Hehe...
I think from now on, I will run a grammar and spelling check on all my posts before submitting. :p Just kidding, I am too lazy for that. :D Y'all seem like a polite bunch. Y'all would sit there and be annoyed but won't poke me out, I hope. :nuts:
I've even seen Tia Maria, vodka and Coke described as a Black Russian. Sigh. :headshake.
that's what it was in the bar at Birmingham Uni. And other pubs up north. Kahuwhat? :lol:
Thanks for the back-up. I was beginning to look a bit over-semsitive.
Merkins are reeeeaaally into their cocktails. or maybe it's just a crashing towards middle-age thing. Hard to tell which is culture and which is age when you switch continents at 30, but all of a sudden whenever i go out for drinks, all the other women are drinking cocktails and parties in people's houses are all about the host's mixed drinks -margeritas, dirty martinis, bloody marys..... never has it been so hard to get a gaddamned beer! :lol: *sigh*
As we get older, we have less time to drink (not to mention less bladder capacity) so hitting the hard liquor becomes imperative.
I've always wondered whether our taste in alcohol changes with age due to something physiological. There are, of course, lifestyle-based reasons as well. I have personally taken to drinking straight, hard liquor over ice, if given the preference--something I wouldn't have enjoyed even five years ago. And it would have made much more sense for me to drink that way while playing long, long sets behind a drumset.
Edit: Oh, and the other obvious thing. I can afford more expensive alcohols now, which actually taste good straight. I'm not drinking the same stuff anymore; and when I do, it still requires being mixed with something. Crown Royal Cask #16 versus the regular Crown (needs Coke!) for instance.
Just to reassure you that Greengrocer's Apostrophe's are alive and thriving in Leeds.
Please tell me that's three packages of strawberries for £1, and not three strawberries for £1.
This isn't Tashkent you know, a pound does stretch further than three strawberries ;)
Please tell me that's three packages of strawberries for £1, and not three strawberries for £1.
They're punnets of strawberries.
Full Definition of PUNNET
British
: a small basket for fruits or vegetables
neat
Comes from 'pun' which was an old word for pound.
Any relation to the word "pint?" That's how our strawberry packages are measured.
Pints a Pound, the World Around.
pint, punt, punnet, whatever.
it's clear to me though, that you guys have a
very different meaning for "
pick your own" than we do over here.
Not really, market stalls have adopted the term in order to imply freshness and customer choice.
It makes them look more honest, as it means they're not selecting the mankiest ones and bundling them into a bag so you get home before you realise.
Pick your own is generally understood to be picking growing fruit at a farm. Although we probably have a shorter growing season than much of the US.
Note, the strawberries in the picture are not English. I hold out for the real thing (Waitrose do them best, and I'm not saying that because I used to work there).
Raspberries should be Scottish, ideally, strawberries English and apples French.
On a tangent, when I was 14-15 I worked at a pizza restaurant and one of the Managers was called Punit, he was a real stickler for detail. We called him Strawberry behind his back, because we were still schoolgirls and didn't really want a profession in the hospitality sector.
Noted.
Then it may be added to the list of mestakes on menu's.
We (in the biz) call the plastic punnets "clamshells" here. And sell them by imperial weight. 1lb strawberries is $2.50 this week. 3 sweet Mangoe's/$1. Both are on "Sale" /Special Offer this week. No such thing as the consumer protection act here. They never need be "regular" price anywhere. Strawbs are on "Sale" pretty much every week. and mangoes. and pineapples.
Then it may be added to the list of mestakes on menu's.
If you order a steak medium, and it comes well done...
...is that a missteak?
They use that pun in some of the promo literature for our store. This thread has become like a busman's holiday for me
Pints a Pound, the World Around.
Actually, here in Blighty a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter.
US pint is 16 fluid ounces and a GB one is 20.
Sent by thought transference
One picks strawberries by the quart in these parts, and liquid pints and quarts aren't the same measurement as fruit pints and quarts.
Dry and liquid measurement are not same. IIRC a pt. of honey weights 24 oz.
What's a pound of honey weigh?
About 180lbs these days, darlin'.
Two from this week.
One in Haworth - a First Aid trip from the wonderful Limey, which I need to write up.
She spotted it before I did, but I wasn't very switched on that day.
Shame, because the food in that place was excellent.
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Holiday Inn Express.
Seriously?! International chain and you can't get a proof reader? Shocking.
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Seriously?! International chain and you can't get a proof reader? Shocking.
Stop second guessing and follow the instructions. :haha:
Stop second guessing and follow the instructions. :haha:
No, the top one was a very good independent café/ eaterie in Haworth.
I considered bearing all [sic] but decided Limey didn't need to see it again.
It was the sanitry message which was the HIExpress.
Thank you for the clarification, but I think you should still follow their instructions. :blush:
I shot these last summer and I'm just now getting to uploading them.
Chaotic rebranding sees station named Waltamstow on new signs at key transport hub
With the Victoria Line having run through Walthamstow for 47 years, one would have hoped that Transport for London would have known how to spell the station’s name correctly.
But clearly not.
The renovation work which saw the station be renamed went rather awry with Walthamstow Station becoming Waltamstow Central.
Where the “h” went is a matter of conjecture, but it was not how London’s transport chiefs wanted to mark the handing over a route through the key hub in the north east of the capital by London Overground.
It did not take long for the handful of signs to be the butt of humour from sharp-eyed London commuters, who took to Twitter to record their disgust.
“These days if you make a mistake it can be spread all over the world on social media, so they have to take it down. It makes them look like idiots,” James Clark, 64, told the Waltham Forest Guardian.
Daily Telegraph Handful of signs? That sounds expensive to change.
The obvious solution is for Walthamstow to change it's name to Waltamstow. Problem solved...
for Transport for London. :haha:
That was one of two stations I could go home via when I lived in London.
Take it down?
Take it down???
I'd have had them in the bloody stocks for that!
And that's me being nice, because they should have been chained up and left to drown at Blackwall. So don't say I'm not reasonable.
:D
For some Brits, it seems an "H" makes a "ell" of a difference.
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A road sign that gives directions to Aylesbury from the new and improved A421 has misspelt the town as “Ayelsbury”.
Drivers have been left outraged by the mistake, with some mocking Milton Keynes Council on social media.
The new sign is situated on Kingston Roundabout next to the BP garage.
An MK Highways spokesman said: “We will get one of the team out to check this today.”
The Bucks Herald.
I've also seen it spelt as 'Alesbury'. The long gone Aylesbury Brewery Company could have had a field day with that.
Oh gods this is everywhere here... Does it have to be restricted to restaurant menus?
I mean... There's this:
I went to them to register a complaint last week
(My immigrant just wasn't absorbent enough).
Drivers have been left outraged by the mistake...
Outraged? By a mispelling? They'd never survive in the U.S..
Outraged by an official sign for their town being misspelt.
I don't think people are particularly outraged by spelling errors generally.
Maybe we have a different definition for outraged here?
I've never been outraged by any porn. Sickened by some I've come across accidentally, but mostly it's either a turn on or it's not.
But yes, I do think it's outrageous that the Highways Agency, or whoever makes these signs, cannot proof check the name of a LOCAL town before erecting a sign.
Felt the same about the Walthamstow sign.
There's no excuse for it.
Menus and market signs are all very funny, but you can choose not to buy if you're really that bothered (I am generally just amused). But the station signs and road signs, who pays? We do.
Damnit. Now you've been and gone and made me sound like The Taxpayers' Alliance.
Well it's true here also. Commercial sign mistakes are amusing, but screw-ups by government agencies provokes more anger than mirth.
Yes, it's another apostrophe catastrophe.
Unfortunately, I have a prior engagement on the 28th, so will be unable to attend. :rolleyes:
Another old favourite...
The shop that can't be moved.
No matter how much you push the envelope, it's stationary.
I wonder what it was known as informally?
Taken in Torrington, Wyoming during my last visit in 2004.
I really would like to make a return visit, but I don't know when, or if, I shall get the opportunity..
Street View link.I personally can not get past the image brought to mind when I read "Super 8" and hear "
supperate". The very last thing I want to do is lie down there. **shudder** :vomit:
Another old favourite...
The shop that can't be moved.
Trying to purchase "stationary coke" would make for a fantastic Monty Python style sketch.
I imagine that Bill will not be at all pleased.
So Bill's a whore, what's the problem?
The funniest thing to me is that it's written as a plea.
Won't someone ask in the fish & chip shop? Oh the humanity!
Sundae has asked me to post this on her behalf.
I assume that the solders of toast helped the current to flow.
'Scrabbled Egg'? One should never play with one's food.
Slavish obedience to auto correct or rank incompetence? The jury is still out on that one.
How big is that, a sign or printed on a menu/table card/napkin?
It's a sign in the window - A4.
I was looking especially at the breakfasts (nom nom nom) and when I noticed the errors I took a photo.
I didn't bother to check the rest of it, so you're just seeing what I saw.
Oh shit, a sign in the window? Scare them away before they even get inside and get a whiff that might temp them. Major ooops. :haha:
The thing is, there are SO MANY cafes/ tea shops/ eateries in this town, selling the same and usually at lower prices.
I know that independents can't compete with large chains (actually I think Wetherspoons is the only one with national buying power) and I do not begrudge anyone a living. But for me, that's like having surly staff or dirty cutlery. It can so easily be avoided. It's just silly.
I'm tempted, I must admit.
After going into 'Spoons last Sunday week and they couldn't even get toast right.
It's almost like a reverse appeal - if people still eat there even with the inept signage, maybe the food really is good.
Been culling my old photos.
Found these two I took and never posted.
I've actually been kind in the recruitment pic, by removing all the contact details.
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On the Princess Cruises advert it may seem I'm being a little picky (well, yes I am) but these cruises are expensive. It doesn't say much to me about their attention to detail if there can be three mistakes in one small advert.
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Tesco apologises after making two spelling mistakes in single pack of baby clothes.
One babygrow carries the slogan 'I was born awsome' while another reads 'Daddys little man'.
Two baby suits from Tesco, one carrying the slogan "I was born awsome" - missing out the first E in 'awesome' (left) and the other missing a possessive apostrophe as it reads "Daddys little man" (right), resulting in the supermarket chain promising to brush up on its spelling and grammar.
Supermarket chain Tesco has promised to brush up on its spelling and grammar after making two separate mistakes in a single pack of baby clothes.
The parents of three-month-old Alexander Kendall spotted the errors after being given the set of five Tesco F&F long sleeve bodysuits as a present.
One of the suits carries the slogan "I was born awsome" - missing out the first E in 'awesome'. Another misses a possessive apostrophe and reads "Daddys little man".
Tesco responded after Alexander's father pointed out the errors on Twitter.
It offered a refund or exchange and said: "Sorry about this, we've made our suppliers aware of this so it can be corrected for future stock."
Mother Sophie Kendall, 28, from Norwich, said: "We both work as journalists so are perhaps a bit more pedantic about these things than most.
"Fortunately Alex is a long way off being able to read so we'll just use the suits and hope nobody notices."
Daily Telegraphmmmm, ahhhh, fresh cotton hand soap, now with more [SIZE="4"][COLOR="Yellow"]dandelion[/COLOR][/SIZE].
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...from French dent-de-lion, meaning "lion's tooth"...
I wouldn't think I'd want anything to smell like lion teeth.
well, to be honest, it smells like soap. it's "supposed" to have that fresh cotton scent. why they chose a dandelion blossom gone to seed as the image for "cotton" is just a brain fart on their marketing staff's part. this same soap now shows cotton, on the stem, just like this is dandelion on the stem. they're both kinda whitish, kinda roundish, kinda plantish.
that or someone thought that was a picture of cotton.