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Sounding like an idiot ordering food
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There are some ridiculous names some restaurants choose to name their entrees. Maybe I'm I little too self conscious of sounding like an idiot, but I'm reluctant to order some things by what they call it on the menu. I usually have enough self respect not to eat at Denny's when I'm sober but the few times I have, I hate telling the waiter "I'll have the moons over my hammy." Or other places, "I'll have the seamen's bounty", "slap yo momma chicken wings", "hunka hunka burnin meat", "a tale of two patties", "the big unit." If you want me as a patron to your restaurant don't make me sound like a moron when I order your food. Does anyone else feel like an idiot when they order food with stupid names?
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Where in the world are you eating? o.o
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@: jorry
Dick's masticated wieners mostly, sometimes i'll go to dirty sanchez's fish taco hut.
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I still refuse to use Starbucks size system.
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Same. I feel like a pretentious douche when I try.
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sassafrassi
lol. The first few times I went there I didn't want to order it in their lingo but now it just comes out tall & grande. I've never ordered a venti but I think I'd call it a large. It just feels weird.
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Since I usually order espressos, I hardly ever have to use the common solution, which is ask for a 12, 16 or 20 oz latte, or whatever, so I don't have to use those ridiculous words there! Haha XD
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It makes no sense. It seems to me that a Grande would be the biggest size, but the Venti is! Then they call a small a tall. Now they have the Trenta which is bigger than the adult human stomach. They have failed in so many languages and levels.
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Exactly!!! I'd rather be caught ordering "I'll take 'Your piece of meat in my vag' and a medium diet Pepsi" than using any of those senseless terms.
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Comin right up!
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Cool! Can I have that to go? :O
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I'm a little attatched. Besides, it needs to be hot and steamy otherwise it's not as good. Ha
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sassafrassi
"No, venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages."

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wic5Mf06SJ0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wic5Mf06SJ0</a>

"Oh by the way, it's called a venti because it's twenty ounces! Venti! Twenty!"
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But it sounds "exotic" and 99% of the people that go there LOVE it. Even though they have no idea what these words mean. That is what scares me, the general population is really that easy to impress!
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It's scary. But at least they could've researched the words and still make them sound "exotic".
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Lolz the could have, and should have, but alas, apparently the budget just didn't cover the "credibility" department!
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You sound like your eating at Spongebob's Crappy Patty Shack.

Although I do like the sound of "The Big Unit"

Yea give me "The Big Unit" with some mayo, hold the fries. YOu got fresh fruit?? I love fresh fruit. Put fresh fruit on the side, I like my unit organized.
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I haven't ever ordered any food with dumb names. & I hope I never do because I'd feel like an idiot too. :P
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I'll just call what it actually is and not those god awful retarded names.
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I felt like an idiot when I ordered pilau rice with a biryani. The very nice waiter tried to talk me out of it but I was oh, so, drunk. The idiot card presented itself to me about twenty minutes after I insisted.
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I actually feel quite witty when I order a dirty orgasm off of jamba juices secret menu.
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@: Anime7
that sounds orgasmic ;)
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@: Sweetz
It's not a bad drink. The reaction from the cashier is always the best, especially if it's a girl serving you. haha.
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@: Anime7
Thanks, might have to try this with a male cashier. Off to look up secret menus from different places now.
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@: Anime7
"Orgasm", "Blow Job", "A Piece of Ass", "Angel's Tit", "Porn Star", "Liquid Cocaine", and "Sex on the Beach" are all names of cocktails that you should in theory be able to order at any bar.
...Not to mention many more. Cocktails are often given weird or dirty names.
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Never knew that. Pretty interesting.
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@: Anime7
Oh god that's another place that I hate >.<
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sassafrassi
On the rare occasion I want something that sounds stupid or that I'm not sure how to pronounce I just point at it and show it to the waiter. :D
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Don't know, it's never happened to me before, but I think I'd find it more amusing than annoying.
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I agree 100%. I hate that shit.
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Thank you. At least 47 people agree. They should be paying me to sound like an idiot for their amusement. The waiters have gotta be laughing in their heads.
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I never order it the way it is written on the menu, and If I can't get out what I want without saying the stupid name I will point and say that.
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That's the benefit of eating at a buffet, at which you will never eat more than me, kobayashi!!
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Should have known it was you.
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Yes i would hate to have to call out ridiculous names as you have described thats why here in canada (or where i live anyways) they mostly go by names like "Trio" or #1 #2 and so on and so fourth, So i don't really have that issue but in my opinion i would hate that.
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dfsq
I'm like that too. I hate ordering alcoholic drinks like 'sex on the beach, pop your cherry' etc and if the menu says tasty crispy chicken, I just shorten it to crispy chicken.
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@: dfsq
At first yeah, then once i get a few in me i'm askin for crazy shit that's not on the menu. "hey sexy bartender! let me get a 'dumpster love 69' out back.
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Ugh, yes. Rooti tooti fresh and frooti?? Come on now. Lumberjack slam? Ok. Oh I hated taking my husband to burger king! The only time I'll go through a drive-thru is for him. Anyway they had 'buck doubles'. I hated saying that. I always laughed when ordering because my brain wanted to say 'duck bubbles'. Ha! I crack myself up. And I'm with a few of the above comments on starbucks sizes. I just say small medium or large when I go there. Not often, there's a much better place that I go to.
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Hahahaha I can't stop saying rooti tooti fresh and frooti!!! I also like the duck bubbles! I had two very good laughs reading your comment! Thank you! :D
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:D just reading duck bubbles again made me giggle ..a lot. Makes me think of ducks farting in a puddle :)
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Me too. you have a lot more goin on than that hair ;)
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Hey now! :)
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Yes! That's why I order by number. When I can't; then I don't order at all :P

I hate dumb names and dumb slogans. Like Arbys, "Good-Mood-Food." ?!? o_O

I don't know who you are OP but this one of my favorite stories.
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Arbys "good-mood-food" may have a stupid slogan, but holy cow if it isn't the most delicious fast food ever!!!
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Crap! Is* I'm using a touch pad that's why I miss so many words!

Anyhow, Arbys is pretty good. And at least their menu doesn't sound like a moron came up with it. In my city they stoped selling their strawberry milkshakes and the regular french fries :(

Oh! And I think I know who the OP is now :P
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NO STRAWBERRY MILKSHAKES?!?!?! WTF?!?! I would write an angry letter to somebody if I was you, those are frieking delicious!

And I am crap at figuring out who OP is :(
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I don't think it would change anything but I could give it shot! The worst that could happen is that I might waste my time :\

My preconceived notion of who the OP is, was right! :D

I didn't say it though, so it doesn't count this time :(
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This wasn't one of my funnier posts, tough to peg me on this one. I really do hate saying stupid fuckin names of food cap'n.

I don't know how the hell spacey knew. I beginning to think people can see my stories on my profile. This is the 3rd time in a row somebody knew.
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HA! I guess i'm not quite as astute as Spacey, I probably won't figure it out unless i'm told lolz.
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Oh, do you?
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I thought I did but after seeing more of your comments to the others, I'm not so sure. :\
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Thanks for the confession of uncertainty my child. ;)

Oh, your bucket list came in an e-mail i just got. Funny list kiddo, very well done.
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Usually there are also numbers next to the name i would use those instead...
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All those are just fancy and/or stupid names for a standard product.
I just call it what it is. If I want a chicken burger, I ask for a "Chicken Burger" regardless what they called it on the menu. It's up to the waiter to dumb it down to their own terminology on the order.
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Urrghh...
So there is this smoothie place, a GREAT smoothie place, and the smoothies have porn names! I fucking swear they did it on purpose. I don't go there for the sole reason that I don't want small children and the elderly hearing me say something like "I want a Hot Dirty Fun on the Beach" or "I was a Deliciously Sinful Surf Body please".

Nobody else seems to mind, and those are the mildest titles. For a smoothie shop in the mall! Those assholes.
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A tale of two patties?

Only one patties I know about.
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Did you open a fast food place and not tell us about it? ha!
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I make it a habit to find the dumbest sounding name on the menu, then order it as loud as I can while seriously mispronouncing the order. Just for giggles!
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No. Personally I like the "moons over my hammy" ... although with bacon instead of ham.
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I want to know where you can buy "The Big Unit" lmao
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Alice cooperstown phoenix, arizona. I've never been there but i saw it on "No reservations." i was like i'll be damned if i would ask for a big unit to put in my mouth. Shit, might as well ask for a side of seamen chowder.
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I don't like what they call the sizes at Coldstone creamery. Instead of small, medium or large, they have "like it", "love it" and "gotta have it". That's why
i don't eat there.
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I feel the same way. Those are some weird names you listed. :p
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