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Funniest Valentine’s Day Menu Evah!

menu, originally uploaded by Prince of Petworth.

Thanks to my friend Eric for sending this menu that he and his wife saw last year. Please note the selections in parentheses for numbers 1 and 3.

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By: | 08 February 2009 10:30 PM | No Comments

  • Chloe

    I don’t see the errors as funny but a reflection of the writer’s lack of fluency in English including p & b confusion (crap) vs. (crab). Though his misuse of the apostrophe could be made by an uneducated native speaker of English too. The colons between the dollar and cents amounts is strange. Where the writer is from is what gets me. Ethiopian, maybe Moroccan with minimal French knowledge…

  • Odentex

    Chloe: The writer could also simply be from Virginny. Ain’t no crabs in the holler ‘cept those you might catch from yer cousin.

  • That’s actually a pretty good deal for crap meat. Last Valentines Day, I paid TWICE as much for the same crap meat at Sequoia. The crap meat was also cursed.

  • Kalia

    Maybe its not a mistake, just honesty… haha. love it!

  • Mike

    Chloe – you are taking this way too seriously!

  • Eric

    Actually, the menu came from a now-defunct Greek restaurant. They were only in business for about 3 months, so I think they made a lot of mistakes, menu-related or otherwise.

  • After dinner Coffee and Coke, I’m in ….oh wait…maybe thats cake….still in !!!

  • WDC

    I particularly enjoy the ever-changing selections at Johnny’s carryout. For a long time, they offered damplings and sace. Now, they’re branching out and have a picture menu item featuring hafe somkes. (That’s half smokes, for those of you not actually looking at the picture.)

  • WDC Says:

    February 9th, 2009 at 11:51 am
    I particularly enjoy the ever-changing selections at Johnny’s carryout. For a long time, they offered damplings and sace. Now, they’re branching out and have a picture menu item featuring hafe somkes. (That’s half smokes, for those of you not actually looking at the picture.)

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    lol

  • Chloe

    Yeah, I know I was taking it too seriously. I teach English as a second language and we do something called error analysis. And vonstallin, one mistake that I absolutely love is mumble sauce, which is how the Chinese speaker probably heard mambo sauce pronounced, and had it written as such on his carry out’s menu. But if you think about it, half really has a silent l in it. I would have written it haf with a short vowel. Love English, y’all.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Chloe, you must be fun at parties!

  • Cecilia C

    I want some damplings.



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