I would NEVER eat anyplace that uses "Tomoto" instead of "Tomato"

A little off topic as well but still in the general ballpark of misspelled words, I passed a church a few days ago that had a sign in the front that had this message " Don't let your only ride to church be in the back of a hurst."

Maybe Expresso is served very quickly.

It really depends upon the place. At a nice restaurant, you pretty much want them to have the menu correct as you want attention to detail. That said, at an ethnic place they can spell it however they want and I won't care. Their grasp of English is going to be a lot better than my grasp of their language and their foreign-ness is why I'm there. Also, at a lower end restaurant, I'm less concerned with the spelling and more with the quality. I used to go to a diner type place that had "Pancakes" on the menu. We used to joke that quotes around it meant that it really could be anything and not pancakes.

"I would NEVER eat anyplace that uses "Tomoto" instead of "Tomato""

Same goes with how they say it. I would never go to a place that said, "tomato" instead of "tomato", but that's just me.

My cafeteria at work is hands down the worst I've ever been to. It's a typical govvie contract awarded to the lowest bidder. People routinely get sick from the food (the clam chowder 2 weeks ago had raw potatoes and onions).

Anyway, before I can rant further, "Montie Cristo" sandwiches and "St. Lewis Ribs" were on the menu this week.

There was an Indian restaurant in Clapham (South London) which, for years, had the solitary item of "floater" on the menu. Nobody I know was ever brave enough to order it.

Yes, I've had hours of amusement from this site!

Here are a few greatest hits from this thread from August:
Fun with Miss-spelled Menue's

What would you order from this compiled menu:

• Entree's: Potatoe and Leak Soup, Brushetta
• Main's: Chargrilled stake with brocoli and zuchini, Spagetti bolonaise, Jumbo club sandwhich
• Desert: Rasberry sunday, Choclate crossant's, Vannilla soufle, Deserts come with large Cuppachino.
  [source: Eat Your Words]
• Cows Lever
• http://rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order/
• meat roaf
• cohee
• Thai road peanut
• Garbage soup
• Aromatic Crispy Dick
  
  Then visit your hairdresser:
• a hair salon called "F U * K"

Please add more!
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=728284

How could anyone choose between the garbage soup and the Aromatic crispy Dick?

Sounds like the renaming was an instance of wordplay, as in Express-o. It may be a dull and witless attempt, but ...

One that drives me nuts is when restaurants thy and pluralize the German "sp�tzle" and make it "sp�tzles", or much more commonly "spatzles". "Sp�tzle" is already plural and does not need an s.

In one case, the aroma could be a surprise.

A combination of the two might be a little confronting, too.

Was that before or after the happy dish arrived?

Nope. I'm 100% sure that it was clueless-ness and they really thought that "espresso" was "expresso."

"Expresso" doesn't really bother me much. Depends on how "Italian" the place is trying to be. I believe the English word is "Expresso" while the Italian word is "Espresso." There is no "X" in traditional Italian so they use "S" or "SS." So would you fault a restaurant in Italy serving food from "Messico?"

"Panini" is one of my pet peeves. First, "panini" is plural, panino is singular. Second panino does not exactly mean a sandwich in a certain style.

The pronunciation of "bruschetta" in the US does annoy me.

The word "pepperoni" is pretty annoying also but this is so embedded we can't do anything about it. "Pepperoni" in Italian means bell peppers.


Of course there are many people in the US of Italian descent who don't know how to pronounce their own names.