# You want me to eat WHAT? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839 "2005-07-30T02:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/41 "2005-08-01T09:40:39Z")
I walked past a shop the other day (yesterday, in fact), that proudly boasted that it was “Now Open on Monday’s”. In Oxford, on of the many kebab vans frequented by the student population advertises Burgers, Kebabs, Chips and Vegetarians. Never did take them up on the offer. ---
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/42 "2005-08-01T09:41:53Z")
_One_ of the many. Drat. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/43 "2005-08-01T12:03:05Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > This one isn’t quite a misspelling, but there is a Taco Bell/KFC near me with a sign advertising: > > ИEW KFC SИACKER SAИDWICH! When I viewed this at home last night, on my Mac, the reversed-Ns came up as question marks, and I assumed that’s what was displayed on the sign. I thought, “How cryptic!” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/44 "2005-08-01T18:23:29Z")
A nearby McDonald’s was hiring for their closing shift, and for a while their sign proudly announced that they were: Now hiring losers I wonder how many apps they got. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/45 "2005-08-01T19:31:27Z")
There are so many examples of misspellings and misplaced apostrophes around Victoria that I’ve given up all hope of seeing correct language on signs, in advertising, and so on. I would take up the suggestion of the Eats, Shoots & Leaves author, and carry around a big red pen to correct them, but I’d be out of ink by noon. Home Depot is especially bad, but it’s everywhere. The owner of our company spent a lot of money to make up some very nice portfolios for the realtors to use for their sales documents and so on. They were professionally printed, with pictures of key staff, and obviously expensive. Too bad he didn’t ask me to proofread it; I found at least three mistakes in the first blurb about the company history. Embarrassing. Conversely, why is it so hard to see one’s own mistakes? Other peoples’ errors jump out me, but I know I make my own. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/46 "2005-08-02T02:18:19Z")
I just bought an item last night with “Batteries inlcuded!” Actually, I’m going to return it, because it’s not very good. Guess the box should have given me a hint of the quality. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/47 "2005-08-02T02:53:44Z")
The cafeteria where I used to work once had a special lunch dish: “Portable Mushrooms.” I told the manager I was glad the fungi could be moved; it would be annoying if we all had to stand there and gnaw at them in place. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/48 "2005-08-02T06:35:20Z")
**Athena** , I make a dish that my family has come to call “Duck all Wrong.” But they seem to like it. **MLS** , “Portable Mushrooms” are very important. They are traditionally served at Easter, Ascension Day and other Moveable Feasts. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/49 "2005-08-02T07:13:05Z")
These are from a local Chinese restaurant’s menu: a category of dishes called PULTRY Mu Shu Pork with “green, Yellow onion, Cabbage, Bamboo, Carrot and eggs” (I wonder what green tastes like) House Special Fish Fillet with “Green onion, clinched cook w/house special sauce” (poor cook, that sounds painful) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/50 "2005-08-02T12:20:32Z")
> [@Velma](#): > > A nearby McDonald’s was hiring for their closing shift, and for a while their sign proudly announced that they were: > > Now hiring losers > > I wonder how many apps they got. Is this some fundamental change in McD’s hiring policy, or what? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sans\_Seraph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sans\_Seraph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sans_Seraph)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/51 "2005-08-02T14:29:23Z")
My town’s A&W recently ordered and installed 16 big full-color lighted menus at its carhop stations, only to find out, soon afterward, that they all proudly touted “Wisconsion Cheese Curds”. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/52 "2005-08-02T15:29:49Z")
Several years ago my employer’s HR dept. was assembling a cookbook of employee’s favorite recipes to be sold for a charitable organization. I submitted a couple of recipes including my wonderful crab dip which is now published for posterity as **crap dip**. In League City (I think) TX, two doors down from a Starbuck’s is a donut shop with a neon sign exclaiming that their coffee is **Fresh Raosted** daily. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/53 "2005-08-02T16:00:44Z")
> [@Phosphor](#): > > My town’s A&W recently ordered and installed 16 big full-color lighted menus at its carhop stations, only to find out, soon afterward, that they all proudly touted “Wisconsion Cheese Curds”. :smack: Better that than “Wisconsion Cheese Kirds” ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/54 "2005-08-02T16:17:59Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Is this some fundamental change in McD’s hiring policy, or what? 😛 No, but now they are just coming out and saying it. my apologies to anyone who has ever worked at a McDonald’s ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/55 "2005-08-02T17:34:19Z")
> [@OldBroad](#): > > Several years ago my employer’s HR dept. was assembling a cookbook of employee’s favorite recipes to be sold for a charitable organization. I submitted a couple of recipes including my wonderful crab dip which is now published for posterity as **crap dip**. Say, you didn’t get the original recipe from [this place,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=328287) did you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/56 "2005-08-02T18:33:04Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Is this some fundamental change in McD’s hiring policy, or what? 😛 In my experience, no, it isn’t. And to contribute something relevant, I work in the QA department of a software company. We were hiring to replace a QA analyst who went on to greener pastures, and I was reading through some resumes. One guy mentioned that he had a background in “enginerring.” :smack: I pointed this out to a gal I work with (same department, looking over the same resumes, so it wasn’t the biggest confidentiality breach ever), and she shrugged and said, “Eh, that’s kinda what we do here anyway.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/57 "2005-08-02T20:41:54Z")
I live about a mile off the interstate. Just after you get off the highway, there is a small church a short distance down to the left. When the area started to build up, the highway department put up a sign just after you got off the highway to alert you about the church. You know, one of those square yellow signs tilted at a 45 degree angle with the lettering in the middle. But instead of “CHURCH” in big black letters, the sign said “CHRUCH”. It was seen by everybody who got off the highway there for at least two years before it was finally replaced with a correct one. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/58 "2005-08-03T14:40:01Z")
> [@stanger](#): > > But instead of “CHURCH” in big black letters, the sign said “ **CHRUCH** ”. Isn’t that one of the Great Old Ones? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![greenlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@greenlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenlady)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/59 "2005-08-03T15:55:57Z")
This isn’t probably one many people would notice, but it made me cringe. Fancy invitations to a local bar association dinner (lawyers) had printed on them entertainment by “magical singers” from a local college. It should have been “madrigal.” I wondered if people who didn’t notice the mistake thought the singers were perhaps magicians as well?? ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839/60 "2005-08-04T17:09:17Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > [url=]This appears to be a genuine menu. > > A few years ago, when I was looking to buy a flat, one was advertised as an “ideal pierre de terre.” Well, at least it wasn’t a “pomme de terre” potato [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-me-to-eat-what/314839.md?page=4)