Deceptive Menu Items
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So, in this case the restaurant did a reasonable job of describing its dish. Yes, it's amusing how little this dish has in common with its supposed namesake, but they at least they did document it. It seems the patron who didn't read the menu shares a lot of the blame here.
The menu description seems to indicate it's not a normal Caesar salad...
Tequila Flamed Caesar Salad
Watermelon, bbcs, chipotle vinaigrette, pecans, cotija, tortilla rajas, tomatoes, sweet onion and jalapeno relish, anchovy and avocado crema.
http://tabernashtavern.com/dinner/
Tequila Flamed Caesar Salad
Watermelon, bbcs, chipotle vinaigrette, pecans, cotija, tortilla rajas, tomatoes, sweet onion and jalapeno relish, anchovy and avocado crema.
http://tabernashtavern.com/dinner/
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Deceptive Menu Items
I've eaten at Tabernash Tavern a few times. It's "meh" at best, but the locals rave about it. The food at Devil's Thumb Ranch is far better, and I bet you can get an actual Caesar salad there!
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The proper term, I think, for a grilled sandwich that happens to include melted cheese, is a "melt". As in a tuna melt. Or a patty melt.
When you have a grilled cheese restaurant, and your "grilled cheese" involves free-range chicken and arugula and aioli on an artisan roll, that's not a "grilled cheese sandwich." It's a grilled chicken sandwich with arugula, aioli, and melted cheese, on an artisan roll.
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Some might also find it deceptive if the salad isn't prepared tableside, because that is the proper prep.
If the menu is descriptive, nothing to see here, especially when the title was unusual.
Similarly, I order a Cobb salad from a place close to home, and it doesn't resemble anything that Mr. or Mrs. Cobb or any of their offspring would ever recognize. But it is tasty, and the menu lists all the ingredients.
If the menu is descriptive, nothing to see here, especially when the title was unusual.
Similarly, I order a Cobb salad from a place close to home, and it doesn't resemble anything that Mr. or Mrs. Cobb or any of their offspring would ever recognize. But it is tasty, and the menu lists all the ingredients.
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In other words, experience governs expectations (and therefore possible deception), not propriety.
I will go back and say again that the menu seems to describe the salad appropriately.
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They happened to be made in the same way as surimo lobster tails. There is deception with those. I memtioned crab sticks simply so people could understand somethfing similar that they may have experienced.
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At the risk of derailing my own thread, this brings to mind another food nomenclature that grates me (it's a US trend) -- the "grilled cheese" craze with all other kinds of crap on it. A "grilled cheese," from my birth until just a few years ago, involves just cheese and bread. The kind of cheese can vary (in our house, of course, it was most often the Kraft sliced "processed cheese food" that isn't cheese at all), and the bread can vary. But once you add anything else to it -- it's not a "grilled cheese" any more.
The proper term, I think, for a grilled sandwich that happens to include melted cheese, is a "melt". As in a tuna melt. Or a patty melt.
When you have a grilled cheese restaurant, and your "grilled cheese" involves free-range chicken and arugula and aioli on an artisan roll, that's not a "grilled cheese sandwich." It's a grilled chicken sandwich with arugula, aioli, and melted cheese, on an artisan roll.
The proper term, I think, for a grilled sandwich that happens to include melted cheese, is a "melt". As in a tuna melt. Or a patty melt.
When you have a grilled cheese restaurant, and your "grilled cheese" involves free-range chicken and arugula and aioli on an artisan roll, that's not a "grilled cheese sandwich." It's a grilled chicken sandwich with arugula, aioli, and melted cheese, on an artisan roll.
Just check out the item description because as you have discovered
what you actually get may be something slightly or vastly different.
Big deal, I have had grilled cheese with a slice of tomato tucked inside.
It was delicious and I was not about to quibble with the chef about the
menu item name.
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As for deceptively named food, sweetbreads certainly come to mind...
Somebody earlier mentioned sandwiches. I never realized it, but apparently the Club Sandwich can just about consist of anything, IME. I don't think I ever get the same one twice.
Somebody earlier mentioned sandwiches. I never realized it, but apparently the Club Sandwich can just about consist of anything, IME. I don't think I ever get the same one twice.
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I'm going to lump reubens into the same category. It seems like sauerkraut and thousand island dressing are the only requirements in the minds of some menu developers. Rye bread, corned beef and swiss cheese are all dispensible.
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Have to agree that it's pretty near to a culinary scourge - I'd say it's scourge-adjacent. "Their own strength in Japanese cuisine" is pretty weak, IMHO.