# Foods you can't order with a straight face in the US. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153 "2010-06-22T19:22:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/41 "2010-06-23T16:36:21Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I’ll have a faggot with a spotted dick please. That beats my “warm clam juice please” all to Hell and back. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/42 "2010-06-23T16:38:48Z")
I’m eating horehound candy right now. I hate, hate, hate corny or “cute” names. I’ll usually say “give me the beef one.” Denny’s or IHOP or someone has “Eggs Over My Hammy.” Menus that have numbers make this easier. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/43 "2010-06-23T16:41:20Z")
Double post because my internet sucks… ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/44 "2010-06-23T19:50:46Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I’ll have a faggot with a spotted dick please. I suspect that you can’t order this in the UK with a straight face anymore, either. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/45 "2010-06-24T01:57:20Z")
> [@kun11](#): > > Not exactly what you meant but I always smile when I eat the Japanese dish “oyako don”. It translates to parent and child bowl because it has chicken and eggs in it. Sounds really savage to me (but it’s yummy!). Similarly, Paul Simon got the song title “Mother and Child Reunion” from a chicken-and-egg dish he saw on the menu of a Chinese restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/46 "2010-06-24T18:46:22Z")
The place I go for lunch doesn’t have any foods with funny names. A hamburger is called a hamburger. A turkey club is called a turkey club. But it’s funny when someone orders a grilled chicken breast sandwich, either in the small or large size. When the sandwich is made, the person who made it will try to find who ordered it. “Large breast?!? Who ordered the large breast?!? Ma’am, did you have the large breast?!? Hey, I’m holding onto somebody’s large breast!!!” ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/47 "2010-06-25T15:28:54Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I suspect that you can’t order this in the UK with a straight face anymore, either. You wouldn’t really order those two together anyway… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/48 "2010-06-25T22:07:03Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > I think the issue is not how “Horlicks” is pronounced, but how “whore” is pronounced. Some people pronounce whore with a long o (like the first syllable in Horlicks) and some pronounce it as though it was spelled hoor. This confuses me. I can’t even get my mouth to say an r after a long o, starting with an h unless I make “Hor” at least 2 and maybe even 3 syllables. To me, whore and Hor(licks) would rhyme with more, poor, for, sore, door, bore, core. Please give me some examples of a pronunciation that would not rhyme with those words, that would make Hor one syllable. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/49 "2010-06-25T22:37:48Z")
[Pocari Sweat](http://chris.northfolk.ca/wp-content/chris/2006/05/pocari_sweat.jpg), Japan [Pschitt!](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/25941620_dc5bc0d349.jpg), France ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153/50 "2010-06-25T22:40:06Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > [The Pu Pu platter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_pu_platter)! DAMN YOU, & SUCH! I wanted to do that one. \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-cant-order-with-a-straight-face-in-the-us/544153.md?page=2)