Depends on who you ask. 
No, a tiny fly rowing crew.
Where I work I make some of the soups we sell. One of them is a beef stew made with Fat Squirrel Brown Ale. I put up a huge fight and they still wouldn’t let me advertise it as Squirrel Stew. However, that’s still what I call it when I make it for myself at home.
Also, we sell Otis Spunkmeyer Susan Komen For The Cause Pink Cookies or some other similarly long winded name. I was vetoed when I tried to shorten it to “Cancer Cookies” (By the way, they’re actually pretty good, I have some on my desk right now).
The cafeteria at work sells those too, or something very similar. We all call them boobie cookies. And we always buy two.
The restaurant down the street from me advertised “Beef Manhannatan’s” for a week or so on their marquee before someone apparently noticed.
I worked in a grocery store in high school, and the “Bananna’s” and “Potatoe’s” and “Tomato’s” signs were a source of annoyance. Even after the mistakes were pointed out the signs remained. There’s a gas station at the store now, and I noticed yesterday the sign on the pump… “Hungry? We have bananna’s!” :smack: Some things never change.
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That would be a Greengrocer’s Apostrophe.
There’s a Jason’s Deli here in town that has “Beef Stew” on their sign board behind the counter, but I do a double-take every time I see it because at first glance it looks like “Beef Steve”.
It also cracks me up that the folks behind the counter refer to their Southwest Chicken Chili as “swilly”.
Here in western NY we go that one better and add an apostrophe and an s to words.
It’s a not uncommon speech pattern in this region for people to say they’re going to Walmart’s or Burger King’s or Blockbuster’s. I’ll admit I never really noticed it until somebody pointed it out.
So what? Maybe the mystery meat was from female horses ;).
Laughed very very hard.
(Letterman) Top Ten Campbell’s Least Popular Soups:
http://www.mudslide.net/TopTen/lnwd1988.html#January19
I can’t even believe I found this - 1988?!?
A diner in Albany apocryphally once offered Cream of Vegetarian Soup.
A corner store near me proudly proclaims they have sandwishes.
Available items in the break room at my office:
Breakfast Bleand Coffee
Knifes
-D/a
A Mexican place near me offered a choice of corn or flower tortillas.
That would be BABY female horses, much more tender.
OOOOOOOO yummy thought! squash blossom tortillas? Om Nom Nom!
(¿cómo se dice ‘om nom nom’ en español?)
My illiterate mexican prep cook mixes up t and f. its a bit confusing when he labels the “roast beet” for sandwiches, and the “pickled beefs” for salads.
I knew there was a name for it, thank you!
I forgot about the dim bulb I used to work with who would put the “N” up backwards on the marquee. She’d get mad when we would point it out to her. She also left the “L” out of “Public” once, that was the last time she was allowed to make the sign. :eek: