# Getting 'Fish and Chips' hilariously wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-fish-and-chips-hilariously-wrong/716719 "2015-04-03T17:02:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-fish-and-chips-hilariously-wrong/716719/15 "2015-04-03T18:57:51Z")
> [@Macca26](#): > > I once ordered a “philly cheese steak” in a new york tavern. > > I did get a cheese steak. Technically. Perhaps I should have noticed that the wording was separated like that. > > But it was literally a slab of sirloin steak on a hamburger bun with a slice of cheese on top. The steak was a solid inch and a half thick piece of meat. One hopes “Philly” didn’t have anything to do with the cheese. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Absolutely the worst, tho, was when I was stationed at the Pentagon in the early 80s. One day I didn’t bother packing a lunch, and I noticed one of the food places on site had a lasagna special. Oh, it was special all right - 5 or 6 layers of noodles - just noodles - with tomato sauce poured over top, and maybe a sprinkling of parmesan. :eek: I had to get it again a week later just to see if it was an anomaly. Nope, that’s how that particular vendor made lasagna. Jeez, that’s worse than what had been Mom’s idea of lasagna. Spaghetti sauce with cooked ground beef and cottage cheese mixed in, layered with the noodles. At least Mom had the excuse of never really learning how to cook. And that lasagna was much better than most of her ideas. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-fish-and-chips-hilariously-wrong/716719)._