Funny food names on menus
 

As I was posting to the chicken wing thread, I was musing on the different ways wing shops describe/name their hottest sauce. "Melt your fillings" was the one I recalled. It reminded me of other funny named foods I have seen on menus. Now, I know the Brits serve some funny named stuff, but I'm guessing you'll find spotted dicks all over the place. I'm looking for the unique names only found in one spot.

My favorites come from a pair of related restaurants back where I'm from originally. I have no idea if Fitzwilly's still exists in Northampton, MA or Fitzsnuggy's is still on Riverdale Street in West Springfield.

Fitzsnuggy's named sandwiches for celebrities (no particular reason I know of). Their tuna salad was "Ike and Tina Tuna". Their cream cheese and olive sandwich was named Cream Abdul Jabbar.

I never discerned a pattern in Fitzwilly's food names. They had a m,ssive chocolate ice cream/cake dessert called "Daddy, I don't want to eat this".

In both places, they wouldn't take an order unless you used the exact name.

Others?

While in Saudi many years back, we snuck into a Thai place to grab a meal during prayer time. They had a menu item called Lady in Bath which was essentially a thin deep fried shrimp roll. (No other filling other than the shrimp and the wrap.) The tail of a long shrimp which stuck out of the bottom of the wrap looked like a pair of dainty female feet sticking out of a shower curtain (wrap).

At a restaurant in the town we lived in while in China, they served burro steaks with peppers. However, in translation it came out...














wait for it...

















Spicy ... Meat. :D

OK - that was funny. I am still laughing.
Well done.

Apparently universal in Southern NH, I came across this term on 3 menus in a week:

Steak Bomb - refers to a fully loaded steak & cheese sub (actually, the local terminology is grinder - pronounced grindah)

As seen in a restaurant in central Stockholm (under the seafood portion of the menu)...

Scampi Indiana

Hmmm.

In the window of the Route 66 American Bar in Frankfurt they offered American Cocktails, Beer, Ice & Shake and, uh, Longdrinks.

Every now and then I find a funny name for a Chinese restaurant when I order in, like Foody Goody and Ho Lee Chow.

If you ever find yourself really bored in a hotel room, look up some of the names of hair salons in the phonebook. In SAV I saw…

Hair I Am (say it with a Georgia accent)

Sunnyside Up.

In Hawai`i, menus almost always have "Shrimps" (plural) instead of "Shrimp"

In a jazz bar in Tokyo where only drinks and snacks were served was an item called "Charm". I asked the waiter for better details and all he could say was "much charming". Even my husband who speaks basic japanese couldn't get a translation.
So we ordered it. It was a wicker bowl filled with assorted candies and crackers, each one individually wrapped. Imagine one potato chip in it's own sealed bag, or two peanuts in a little bag. Very silly to us, but quite charming to them. :)

This guy's got you all beat. :)

http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php

Yes, he does.

I still have tears in my eyes from laughing.

I wanted to, I can also add "Hot Dog" to the list. To be honest, when I first heard of the term growing up as a child, I thought it was made out of dog meat.

There is a lot of CIGARETTE PIE on Turkish menus...

an unfortunate literal translation of a delicious pastry...

Having said that, "Real Hot Dog" should be plentiful in Korea.

Well, I guess every self-respecting burger joint has a "The Pounder: Pain is just weakness leaving the body - burger"
At least mine has ;-)

I've always thought a "pupu platter" sounded a little funny myself.

Last year a group went out to dinner in England. We saw "braised fa..ots"( looks like the profanity monitor does not allow usage of the word. It rhymes with maggots) on the menu. We ordered one dish of them for the table. Yuck...chopped liver in a gravy sauce...

Hard Rock used to call the chicken fingers...Love Me Tenders.

A local chinese restaurant in Brisbane, Australia has the following two items on their menu

"Soft Shell Crap"
"Green Teeth"

FYI the Soft Shell Crab is great, and the green tea is lovely.

This place has all goofy names:

http://www.moes.com/menu.aspx

I don't really know why they get named this way. "The Other Lewinsky" anyone? :D

"Sloppy Joe" also brings laughter whenever I think of it.

Here is one from a restaurant near where I live in Toronto; meat craps. Could be meat scraps, crab meat or ???

Truth in advertising.

A standard (and one of my favourite) items on French bistro menus for lunch is "chevre chaud", which is a green salad with toasted goat's cheese (usually melted on slices of baguette). Yum. Occasionally, the English menu translates this popular dish as "hot goat", more interesting but perhaps less appetising.

At Village Inn (a place that is like Denny's) on the kids menu is the "Funny Face" wich is a pancake with a mouth made whipped cream and blueberry eyes.

Calls to mind the "conehead sundae" at Friendly's. Eyes and nose of Reeses Pieces with a cone for a dunce cap.

Ants Climbing Trees: Chinese noodles w/ground pork.

Mother & Child Reunion: Chicken w/egg.

Never seen it on a menu, but we used to fill celery with peanut butter, stick raisins on them and call them ants on a log.

Its obvious but some are calling French Fries "Freedom Fries"

This isn't really a funny menu name, but a funny restaurant name. A guy I used to work with went there in Germany. http://www.oops-lb.de/start.html. They have all kinds of foods there with "Oops" in the name.

A restaurant in Bologna translated one of their offerings as "limp c**k". How it happened made sense at the time, but i've since forgotten.

Hope I don't get suspended for sharing this...

If we're going to include restaurant names, we gotta talk about "Squat and Gobble", just off I-95 in South Carolina! Just look for the billboard.

There's a separate thread in this forum on funny restaurant names. It's strange that the one you mention I've seen elsewhere - on Haight Street in San Francisco, although it may be S&G II (and #1 is in SC? How odd!).

In the South Africa restaurants, among the steak sauces available are peri peri and "monkey gland" sauce.

Peri Peri is okay, haven't tried the monkey gland sauce......don't think I will!

This reminds me that Mrs. BamaVol brought home a chocolate chip-banana "monkey bread" mix from Target yesterday. I looked at the ingredients and was disappointed that there were no more than trace amounts of monkey in the box.

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Funniest
 

this is the funniest thing i have seen in, um..., ever.

The Great Lost Bear in Portland ME (PWM) has an Ike and Tina Tuna on the menu, plus the "I've Never Haddock Like This" fish sandwich and a few other good 'uns.