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Meaningless words on menus

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  • #32
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Using 'alla' instead of 'with' or 'and'.

    Like 'Curry alla rice'.

    Also, why call it the 'soup de jour'.

    This isn't the Champs Elysses.


  • #33
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Pan Seared Ostrich Tenderloin.


    Just plain steak, no ostrich anywhere.:(


  • #34
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    'Lightly drizzled with.....' is another one.


  • #35
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    eug87 wrote: »
    People posting pictures of a coke can on facebook "I finally found my name".
    its a can of coke ffs.

    People are idiots.


  • #36
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Jus.


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  • #37
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Gbear wrote: »
    I prefer laser-cut sandwiches myself.

    So much neater.


  • #38
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Cool_CM wrote: »
    Menus for coffee and wine etc, I'd imagine the people who write up the descriptions have great fun though!

    Examples here:

    http://www.coffeebytheroast.com/page2.htm

    Checks link, fails to notice problem ;)


  • #39
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    It makes me crazy when restaurants have " with au jus", it just makes me twitch.


  • #40
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Im always disappointed with Butterfly Steak.

    If im paying 30 quid i want what I asked for.


  • #41
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    That Thousand Island dressing , from a thousand islands ?

    Or Virgin Olive Oil ? Made from virgins ?


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  • #42
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,498 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    'Fresh' - especially when it bloody isn't.

    You serve fresh food - my God, what a novel concept! You'll make a fortune!


  • #43
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    mattjack wrote: »
    That Thousand Island dressing , from a thousand islands ?

    Or Virgin Olive Oil ? Made from virgins ?

    Nothing added. That's fine. Also fine is "soup of the day" - that just means it changes. Hardly pretentious.


  • #44
    ViveLaVie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭ViveLaVie


    Keith wrote: »
    They dont even make a label with my name on it :(

    You can order one


  • #45
    KeithM89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    ViveLaVie wrote: »
    You can order one

    Ah the effort of that though.
    If i was gonna order one, i certainly wouldnt get my name printed on it :P


  • #46
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    mattjack wrote: »
    That Thousand Island dressing , from a thousand islands ?

    Allegedly invented in, or named after, the Thousand Islands area on the US/Canada border.


  • #47
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Pretentious French ballacks on menus I can handle, just. What does annoy me is unnecessary/inappropriate verbiage in an effort to sound "suave" or "sophisticated". Exampla gratia:

    Waiter: A little frappucino for yourself at all, sir?

    JG: No. But I'd like a jug of iced water for myself, if yourself can manage it. At all, at all.


  • #48
    Chareth Cutestory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Chareth Cutestory


    What I find just as annoying as the meaningless words on menus are the stupid smears and blobs that have been appearing on some plates.

    If I order a big slice of cake with chocolate sauce, I don't want it coming out looking like someone pooped on a paintbrush and dragged it across my plate. Who ever thought this was a good idea?? At all at all.


  • #49
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Billy Connolly had a great one about a restaurant in Ireland

    'Potatoes of the night'

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-7nbcWOaws


  • #50
    prettygurrly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭prettygurrly


    "mama's...."

    everyone know's it's the chef in the kitchen who made the spaghetti bolognese (or whatever)


  • #51
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,833 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    'Potatoes of the night'

    With seasonal vegetables


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  • #52
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Billy Connolly had a great one about a restaurant in Ireland

    'Potatoes of the night'

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-7nbcWOaws

    My wife and I were having dinner in a pretty upmarket hotel one evening when the waitress came over to us and asked if she could introduce us to that evening's butter dish. There were three different kinds of butter (regular, saffron and something else, as opposed to Kerrygold, Avonmore and Tesco) and presumably they change regularly. It was a new low for pretentiousness that I've experienced first hand.


  • #53
    1966
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭1966


    "Pan fried........"

    Does this sound posher than plain old "fried"????


  • #54
    Chareth Cutestory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Chareth Cutestory


    Zaph wrote: »
    the waitress came over to us and asked if she could introduce us to that evening's butter dish.

    Poor girl, she must feel like a complete tit whenever it's time to make the introductions.

    And since when has butter been given a dish all of it's own?


  • #55
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    mattjack wrote: »
    That Thousand Island dressing , from a thousand islands ?

    Originated in the Thousand Island area of Canada.


  • #56
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Chareth Cutestory wrote: »
    Poor girl, she must feel like a complete tit whenever it's time to make the introductions.

    And since when has butter been given a dish all of it's own?
    e

    Pretty sure the butter dish/butter crock pre-dates refrigeration.


  • #57
    Chareth Cutestory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Chareth Cutestory


    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    e

    Pretty sure the butter dish/butter crock pre-dates refrigeration.

    Ah touché. I immediately thought dish as in a meal rather than crockery or what have you. That softened my cough anyway.


  • #58
    Seamus1964
    Closed Accounts Posts: 500 ✭✭✭Seamus1964


    Wine

    Michael McIntyre 



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doBwwLaEHD8


  • #59
    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    mattjack wrote: »
    That Thousand Island dressing , from a thousand islands ?

    Or Virgin Olive Oil ? Made from virgins ?


    no it means the oil was made by a virgin called Olive

    with so much of that oil sold around the world its no wonder Olive is a virgin... she has no time to get the roide :P


  • #60
    dirtyden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    Gourmet.

    As in a gourmet beef burger. I hate that. A burger is always just a burger.

    I love burgers.


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  • #61
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Pretentious French ballacks on menus I can handle, just. What does annoy me is unnecessary/inappropriate verbiage in an effort to sound "suave" or "sophisticated". Exampla gratia:

    Waiter: A little frappucino for yourself at all, sir?

    JG: No. But I'd like a jug of iced water for myself, if yourself can manage it. At all, at all.

    As a former hospitality manager: All I hear there is an attempt for someone to be polite and offer a suggestion of your next item, and an unnecessarily snide response from you.

    Is it too much just to say "No, thank you, but I'd love a jug of icewater"

    Really...do you think this will get you better service by that attitude?


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