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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.

Category: Random

By: Prince Of Petworth | 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…

February 9, 2009 at 6:46 am
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.

February 9, 2009 at 8:57 am
monkeyrotica

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.

February 9, 2009 at 8:59 am
Kalia

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

February 9, 2009 at 9:44 am
Mike

Chloe – you are taking this way too seriously!

February 9, 2009 at 10:48 am
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.

February 9, 2009 at 10:59 am
vonstallin

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

February 9, 2009 at 11:30 am
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.)

February 9, 2009 at 11:51 am
vonstallin

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

February 9, 2009 at 2:41 pm
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.

February 9, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Anonymous

Wow, Chloe, you must be fun at parties!

February 9, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Cecilia C

I want some damplings.

February 10, 2009 at 12:48 pm