‘Why are restaurants increasingly calling their food absurd names?’ – 19 dishes that will have you spitting out your monkey fingers

10.

”2 berries wrecked on 2 rafts’. Scrambled eggs on toast.’
–Key_Gur_7618

11.

‘I have a frequent spot performing at a venue with pop-up restaurants and one is called Burgergasm.’
–Mr-_-Steve

12.

”Porky boi.”
–Maleficent-Walrus-28

13.

‘I agree, but also a burger place near me has one called the Cardi Beef and it’s really good so I might be a hypocrite.’
–Rahzmataz

14.

‘I worked in a movie-themed restaurant that was opposite a church. The owner and his family, most of whom worked there, were movie obsessed, and the specials were all named after movies. Nothing will ever beat having a bunch of elderly priests order a Sausage Party for 4. I should have got a medal for keeping my face straight.’
–Different-Employ9651

15.

‘What gets me is the strange dance you have to do to refer to such items by a traditional unpoetic description.

For example, it is a burger place and they offer one type of chicken burger so you say ‘Can I have the chicken burger with fries please?’ and they look at you quizzically as if you asked in a language of Ancient Mesopotania and say ‘Do you mean the Colonel Clucky Snack Attack Sandwich?” to which I reply ‘Oh, do you have several types of chicken burger?’… ‘No, just that one’….’OK, can I have that one then please?”
–CoffeeandaTwix

16.

‘When they list the ingredients for a full English and list the eggs as ‘hens eggs’. Fuck off, you pretentious bastards. How many full English breakfasts use duck eggs or quail eggs FFS. I think we can safely assume that the eggs are hens eggs.’
–jimmywhereareya

17.

‘The best one was ‘covered in our slutty downright dirty sauce’ written everywhere but no explanation of what it was. So when I asked the server they said ‘Erm I think its mayonnaise with some herbs and spices added?’. So I just replied ‘Well keep the slutty stuff away from my plate then.”
–jlelvidge

18.

‘Recently had a dirty moo burger.’
–AtmosphereTurbulent8

19.

‘Yeah! Food should have proper descriptive names like toad in the hole, bubble and squeak, and spotted dick!’
–ItsDominare

So where did this madness come from? Apparently, the Americans are to blame.

20.

‘It all started as a Los Angeles thing like a decade+ ago for marketing.

For example in southern California, there is a chain of high-end vegan restaurants where every menu item is a self-affirmation. So you order by saying things like ‘I am grateful’ or ‘I am centred’ or whatever. And then the server leaves you with a ‘conversation question’ to start the table’s discussion – something like ‘What do you value?’.

It’s truly awful.’
–UKPerson3823

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