Mangled Menu Lingo Leads to Laughs

[Hill Wimp]

It's one of the things that really bugs me about social media a quiet word here and there makes world a little bit nicer and takes less effort.

I get that but I am pretty sure there was no malice here.

 

[Chris S]

Did you order it? I've eaten - deliberately! - plenty of fungi that weren't mushrooms, so it might not be an error.

No - the name put me off

 

[TVC]

I thought the OP displayed an excellent grasp of painting word pictures, scene setting and bringing emotion to a story. Something lacking in the vast majority of posts around here. For that alone it is one of the best submissions for a long time.

 

[jefmcg]

No - the name put me off

That's a pity. Two of the most memorable meals I've eaten in my life featured fungi. Most recently from Carluccio's restaurant in Covent Garden.

(but yes, I giggle when I order "squids" from the local Chinese)

 

[TVC]

I thought the OP displayed an excellent grasp of painting word pictures, scene setting and bringing emotion to a story. Something lacking in the vast majority of posts around here. For that alone it is one of the best submissions for a long time.

Edit: and excellent alliteration in the thread title.

 

[Pale Rider]

That's a pity. Two of the most memorable meals I've eaten in my life featured fungi. Most recently from Carluccio's restaurant in Covent Garden.

Looks a decent gaff, prices not too sore for the old Covent, and the capitals disease virus has yet to strike.

https://carluccios.com/menus/main-menu#while-you-decide

 

[Fnaar]

 

[stephec]

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Chilled, how very civilised.

 

[Paulus]

It's one of the things that really bugs me about social media a quiet word here and there makes world a little bit nicer and takes less effort.

I think you are taking it a tad too seriously. Is that not one of the ironies of social media, that to share experiences may always annoy another person, no matter how humorous and witty the post is?

 

[jefmcg]

Looks a decent gaff, prices not too sore for the old Covent, and the capitals disease virus has yet to strike.

https://carluccios.com/menus/main-menu#while-you-decide

No, that's not it. That's a chain cafe. There once was a restaurant owned by the same person in Covent Garden, and the prices were eye watering, but the food was mouth watering. Wikipedia tells me it's long gone.

The Caffes used to be good, but I haven't been since I was served beef carpaccio that had gone brown. That the dish was prepared hours in advance, not covered properly; that the waitress didn't know what the dishes should look like and there was no one supervising in the kitchen to tell her; that it took quite a few minutes after me complaining and sending it back for them to find someone who knew that raw steak should not be brown and came and and astoundingly told me I was right. I never wanted to eat anything else that came out of that kitchen, and felt I had dodged a bullet only getting something stale, not poisonous.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Years ago, a Chinese takeaway near me offered "human fried rice" on the menu.

I could see the intention and the unfortunate typo, but it always amused me to imagine the owner wondering why this particular dish was so often overlooked.

 

[Pale Rider]

No, that's not it. That's a chain cafe. There once was a restaurant owned by the same person in Covent Garden, and the prices were eye watering, but the food was mouth watering. Wikipedia tells me it's long gone.

The Caffes used to be good, but I haven't been since I was served beef carpaccio that had gone brown. That the dish was prepared hours in advance, not covered properly; that the waitress didn't know what the dishes should look like and there was no one supervising in the kitchen to tell her; that it took quite a few minutes after me complaining and sending it back for them to find someone who knew that raw steak should not be brown and came and and astoundingly told me I was right. I never wanted to eat anything else that came out of that kitchen, and felt I had dodged a bullet only getting something stale, not poisonous.

Thanks - I had a vague memory of Carluccio's being a top restaurant from when I lived in London in the 80s, so was surprised the one in the link was affordable.

I'm still a bit confused, which Carluccio's was it where you said you had the fantastic fungi?

 

[jefmcg]

Am I right in remembering that there was a restaurant on one floor and a cafe on another?

No, I'm almost certain not.

I'm still a bit confused, which Carluccio's was it where you said you had the fantastic fungi?

Yeah, but not at a caffee - at the Neal Street restaurant, as it turns out 11 years ago(??) a few months before it closed.

 

[jefmcg]

Antonio Carluccio has died https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/08/chef-antonio-carluccio-dies-aged-80

Oh.



"He said his motto was “mof mof” – minimum of fuss, maximum of flavour. "

That was the thing with that dish. It was a strange crispbread - think an poppadom curled into a C-shape - with a variety of wild mushrooms and fungi. Just olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper and fungi.

It wasn't splashy, it was stripped bare. Nothing but quality of the ingredients.

Vale, Antonio.

(and my dad loved his tv program )

 

[User482]

I'm sorry to hear that he's pasta way.