# "Chicken Noogie" and "Ministroke" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775 "2011-11-03T20:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/61 "2011-11-14T20:33:51Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > My guess would be Chicken Française, i.e. “in the French style”. [Here is a recipe.](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chicken-Francaise-108667) This post sent me to google. Tyler Florence on Food Network website says it is Chicken Francese; which a subsequent search will turn up pages of recipes. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/62 "2011-11-14T21:27:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > In a school cafeteria, cool wind in my hair > Warm smell of burritos rising up through the air > > Up ahead in the distance, I saw a poorly written sign > My arm grew stabby and my eyes got red > But I couldn’t lose my place in line > > There she stood in the doorway > The lunch lady from Hell > And I was thinking to myself, > “It would be Heaven if she’d just learn to spell” ROTFLMAO! That is all sorts of win!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/63 "2011-11-14T22:38:01Z")
I noticed my last time at the local Chinese buffet that the little pastries were called “Egg Tar.” ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/64 "2011-11-14T23:52:50Z")
For a long time, a gas station in our town advertised “CHICKEN DONUTS DELI” in the permanent sign on the side of the building. It’s changed hands and been remodeled and rebadged, but I still call it the chicken donuts place. The big diner in town used to have menus offering, among other things, “Melted Pancakes.” We had the pancakes quite a few times and couldn’t figure out what was melted about them. But the diner recently got shiny new full-color illustrated menus. Next to the section on “Croissants” is a beautiful photograph of . . . an English muffin. A friend had to do some serious persuading to get the fine-dining restaurant near her home to change the spelling of “mescaline” on their salad menu. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/65 "2011-11-15T03:58:02Z")
Mmm, chicken donuts. I wonder if they also make salmon donuts. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/66 "2011-11-15T04:08:28Z")
One of the local lunch places had a sign announcing their _“Re-Grand Opening”_. As if the first opening wasn’t grand enough? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/67 "2011-11-15T19:21:07Z")
In Austin, Tx back in the early 80’s, I lived in an area off of Riverside Dr. that consisted mainly of sprawling, low rent apartment complexes, commonly referred to as the “student ghetto” by it’s inhabitants. There was a ‘corner/convenience’ store called the ‘Zipp In’ with a sign that always had a (frequently and regularly changed) ‘weird’ message on it. The sign was high enough off of the ground that it was obviously _ **not** _ a ‘pranked message’. Out of all of the weird, incongruous, random messages displayed on it, one of them, _ **still** _ stands out in my mind. _ **Tongue, America’s favorite snack!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/68 "2011-11-15T19:40:38Z")
I once had the pleasure of dining at a restaurant that advertised “Muscles with Red or White Sauce over Linguine”. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/69 "2011-11-15T20:59:06Z")
I took a photo of a menu at a local restaurant a while back. It read “SOD TACO.” I didn’t go in to check it out, but thought that didn’t sound like something that would appeal to me. Some time later I figured out later that “SOD” is actually “Soup of [the] Day,” so it was actually advertising Taco Soup, and yes both were in all caps. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/70 "2011-11-20T02:58:22Z")
Seen at the farmers’ market today, as a suggestion for how to use a squash they had: “Minonight women slice and saute this with butter”. Took me a minute, but I think they might have meant Mennonite? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/71 "2011-11-20T04:47:56Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > I took a photo of a menu at a local restaurant a while back. It read “SOD TACO.” I didn’t go in to check it out, but thought that didn’t sound like something that would appeal to me. Some time later I figured out later that “SOD” is actually “Soup of [the] Day,” so it was actually advertising Taco Soup, and yes both were in all caps. Now that’s taking the green movement way too far! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775/72 "2011-11-20T06:56:13Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > One of the weirdest signs I ever saw was in Jacksonville, FL - a hand-lettered sign advertising “Sandwich,s” - yes, it had a comma. Apostrophe [del]fail[/del] fall. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-noogie-and-ministroke/601775.md?page=3)