Comments on: Weekend Word Wrap: Menu Typos

By: Will K

Will K — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:53:54 +0000

Sorry, I added my own typo in there (LOL): The very first word “And,” should, of course, be “An.”

By: Will K

Will K — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:52:19 +0000

There’s another typo on this menu that none of you caught: “Open Everyday.” It should be “Open Every Day.”

And “everyday” occurrence is something that is commonplace; something that happens on a daily basis happens “every day.” Even the syllabic emphasis is different.

By: JayEm

JayEm — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:43:00 +0000

Not on a menu, but a newspaper ad for a local restaurant. According to this ad, the weekend special was—Surf & Turd. I still have the ad. It’s the funniest typo I’ve seen in 24 years of proofreading.

By: Ludovic Windsor

Ludovic Windsor — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:44:00 +0000

If I had a free meal every time I spot a typo… I’d be very fat by now.

I can guarantee you that almost every restaurant (mis-)using French to show how snob they are have typos. Applies to Italian as well.

But then, Americans don’t do languages and we all know that…

By: Ludovic

Ludovic — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:41:00 +0000

If I had a free meal every time I spot a typo… I’d be very fat by now.

I can guarantee you that almost every restaurant (mis-)using French to show how snob they are have typos. Applies to Italian as well.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:47:00 +0000

At a Cambodian place in Cleveland, I did a triple take. Various combos have crab in them. Problem being they misplaced the “b” in crab with a “p”. I asked my friend to check her menu and it was there too. Uh…oops. We didn’t order the crab/crap, alas.

By: Amie

Amie — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:24:00 +0000

On the Web site of one of the fancier restaurants in South Dakota: chicken beast with broccoli

By: Amie

Amie — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:23:00 +0000

Listed on the Web site of one of the fancier restaurants in South Dakota: chicken beast with broccoli

By: a2veeness

a2veeness — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:40:00 +0000

Jumbos Hrimp at a local Chinese take out joint…it’s made it through several reprints of the menu too!

By: Bernadette

Bernadette — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:12:00 +0000

Ar a cafe in Hanoi we ordered “ethnic minority sausage”