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Old Nov 28, 12, 9:46 am   #1
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OT: Awesome menu description
On a the same flight that we waited 6 hours on the runway due to fog I had the time to study the menu. It read, and I quote:

"Traditional English Breakfast - scrambled eggs with chicken kebab, meat tikka and eggplant puree".

I am devastated that I have been lied to for all these years and what I thought was a fry up was actually a poor substitute.
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Old Nov 28, 12, 10:23 am   #2
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Sorry, your point is what, Sahib?
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Old Nov 28, 12, 10:49 am   #3
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Sorry, your point is what, Sahib?
It was the "traditional" that got me really. I was reminded of the WC Fields quote of him sitting next to a man who ordered a vodka martini. His response; " I am sure my man that is an excellent drink, but it is not a martini".
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I am always entertained by obscure menu items...

On my Mum and Dad's CW flight to DOH the other day there was that well-known dish "Zorbian lamb with Zorbian rice"!

I asked a chap who is a chef at QR about it. He explained that it is a Yemeni dish with yoghurt, orange zest and lemon.

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Old Nov 28, 12, 11:48 am   #5
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It was the "traditional" that got me really. I was reminded of the WC Fields quote of him sitting next to a man who ordered a vodka martini. His response; " I am sure my man that is an excellent drink, but it is not a martini".
Totally true, of course.

An example of pandering to 'regional/ethnic' tastes, instead of sticking a "Full Fry, Mark I, British, for the use of" in front of them and telling them to get on with it!

Personally, I rather fancy that 'sub-Continent' option - although on-board I might skip the eggs. But then I eat anything, within reason.
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In a restaurant in Tanzania I once saw (among other ludicrous suggestions)...

Grumbled noggs

Suggestions anyone?

I ended up having to leave the restaurant, unable to control my laughter - but I had been stuck in minibus taxi for about 5 days, so was slightly delirious.
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In a restaurant in Tanzania I once saw (among other ludicrous suggestions)...

Grumbled noggs

Suggestions anyone?

I ended up having to leave the restaurant, unable to control my laughter - but I had been stuck in minibus taxi for about 5 days, so was slightly delirious.
No idea but reminds me of a restaurant in Bulgaria which had on the menu (amongst other hilarious items) "Rabbit shot with expired game shooting license" and "Glojenski pestilence by Father Pankratiy".

In the end I went for "Calm Dream Turning" which turned out to be veal and potatoes
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'Dumpling stuffed with the ovaries and digestive gland of a crad' was my favourite.
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To day I learned that chicken kebab and meat tikka are both traditional English foods.
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A Croatian restaurant once tried to tempt me with "domestic kid under the bell".

Does the eggplant puree represent the more traditional beans?
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Restaurant menu, Paris, c. 1980: 'Cock at the wine'.
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Chinese posh restaurant I'd been taken to by prospective clients (so on best behaviour).

On the same page of the menu:

Thailand Urinating prawns
Pee-pee prawns.

I swiftly moved on.
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Old Nov 29, 12, 12:27 am   #13
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Not the actual menu item, but I do have a photo of a blackboard advertising a small restaurant somewhere in India (I forget where):

COME AND ENJOY
OUR LOVELY GARDEN
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWS

I wasn't aware of a bird problem...
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I wasn't tempted by the Cypriot restaurant's offering of:

"Crap cocktail"
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On a the same flight that we waited 6 hours on the runway due to fog I had the time to study the menu. It read, and I quote:

"Traditional English Breakfast - scrambled eggs with chicken kebab, meat tikka and eggplant puree".

I am devastated that I have been lied to for all these years and what I thought was a fry up was actually a poor substitute.
I see the problem, they they didn't scramble the gegs
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