# Weird or Funny Things on Restaurant Menus

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-funny-things-on-restaurant-menus/107500>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 6, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-funny-things-on-restaurant-menus/107500 "2002-05-06T05:50:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-funny-things-on-restaurant-menus/107500/21 "2002-05-08T02:34:19Z")

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In a mall Chinese restaurant near my home, the special is

**Fry Rice**

Cracks me up every time. 😃

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**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-funny-things-on-restaurant-menus/107500/22 "2002-05-09T19:40:56Z")

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I saw a puppet show once that was a series of vignettes based entirely on misspellings on a Chinese restaurant menu.

And example is “Wanton Soup,” which was a Barbie doll taking an orgiastic bath in a soup bowl.

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-funny-things-on-restaurant-menus/107500/23 "2002-05-09T20:39:39Z")

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Does bad formatting on a menu count?

Because the

BURGER  
SMOOTHIES  
$3.99

at a drive-through restaurant in Olympia, WA were pretty nasty-sounding.

Daniel

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**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:** [May 9, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-funny-things-on-restaurant-menus/107500/24 "2002-05-09T21:06:11Z")

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There’s a restaurant near here that underwent a renovation in January, prior to which the menu above their takeout counter had lots of misspellings. For example, the ham & sweese cheese sandwich and the Italian sausage sub that contained homade sauce and saysage. I’m sure there were other typos but I can’t remember them at the moment.

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