Silly food/menu descriptions

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What's the silliest, dumbest, most ludicrous food and/or menu
description/title you've ever run across.

We've all heard of the ubiquitous pork "medallions", like they're
gonna hang one on yer chest. I love the Texas steakhouse menu that
promised on its salad page, "No Lawn Clippings". The one that gave me
a chuckle in a comedy movie was delivered in your cliched Hollywood
"My name is Bruce and I'll be your server" lisp.

"Would you like to start off with some of our special Haitian tribal
crudites"?



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"notbob" wrote in message
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A restaurant here on Capital Hill used to have a sandwich called "Tuna In A
Pocket". It was on pita bread.

When I tried to order it, I told the waiter that I wanted "Tuna In Your
Pocket". I didn't mean to say it. It just slipped out. Everyone at the
table was laughing about it but the waiter didn't find it humorous one bit.
 
notbob wrote:

At Safeway, I've seen pre-prepared packets of
"Au Jus Sauce". It would serve the buyer right
if the packet was empty. Just add meat juices
to the contents of the packet!
 
On 13-Apr-2011, notbob wrote:


Rooty Tooty Fresh ?n Fruity


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I remember back in the 80's they had a couple Po Folks restaurants
here in the Greenville area, it was a country cooking restaurant; the
times I ate there I always had a good meal and I remember they served
iced tea in mason jars. I remember on their menus there were lots of
intentionally misspelled words and occasionally a letter would be
backwards. After a google search I was surprised to find there are
still a few of them left, mostly in Florida.

http://www.pofolks.com/menuitems.htm
 
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notbob wrote:



No kidding. You'd think some of the people who write menus are hoping for a
Pulitzer.

My Dad wrote a piece on that subject years ago. IIRC what got him started
was the "death by chocolate" desserts that seemed to be everywhere for a
while.

MartyB
 
On 4/13/2011 2:38 PM, notbob wrote:

Homemade marinade that uses coca-cola as a base (is that an oxymoron?) :>>

Sky

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On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:56:17 -0500, Sky
wrote:
That's a Hawaiian marinade, sky.

Here's the drill

soya
soda (coke or 7UP) not diet
sugar (or peanut butter)
garlic
ginger
cilantro
green onion
liquor (like bourbon)


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On Apr 13, 10:18?pm, "Michael O'Connor" wrote:

I live in Greenville also and had forgotten about Po Folks and now I
can't remember where they were - the Greer area? I remember going
there to eat red beans and rice and beans and cornbread. They were
sorta like Cracker Barrel. I can't believe I hadn't even missed them.
 
On Apr 14, 3:38?pm, Libby wrote:

Po Folks is kinda like Cracker Barrel without the shop in front that
sells cookbooks and t shirts and stuff, and they weren't open for
breakfast. Also, every Cracker Barrel I've ever seen is located at a
highway exit to accommodate the truckers and travelers. I think there
was a PoFolks in Greer; might have eaten there once. There was
another that I used to eat at on South Pleasantburg between McAlister
Square and Greenville Tech near the Tanners Big Orange; I think it's a
pawn shop or gold exchange place these days but that PoFolks closed
about fifteen years ago. I remember the last time I ate at that
PoFolks I got the all you can eat Country Fried Steak.
 
On 14/04/2011 4:17 PM, Lou Decruss wrote:



I just saw that movie for the first time a few months ago. It was great.
I saw another oldie goldie previously unseen (by me) last night. I was
putting something away in my son's room and saw that he had a VHS of
Taxi Driver. It is hard watching an old VHS after HDTV and bluray, but
it is a great movie.
 
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:00:12 -0400, James Silverton wrote:


Chalk board with daily specials spotted at a pub in Los Gatos (or was
it Saratoga):

"Soup of the Day: Soup Du Jour".

-sw
 
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