Menu Board Collector Gifts

Restaurant menu board: 'Day old - 2 day old - 3 day old'

"‘Extra vile old ox’? No, sir – it stands for ‘extra virgin olive oil.’"

'We can order Lebanese, Thai, Italian, Indian, Greek or Chinese...'

Jeff soon discovered his mistake in ordering the one ton soup.

'No, I'm not the sommelier; in fact, I don't even work here - I've just always wanted to try this wine.'

Fast Food Menu Selections

"I'll have the barbecued half-pounder, with all the ramifications."

'We don't know which gate flight 311 to Denver is boarding. These are the menus.'

"I want to leave myself some caloric margin of error for dessert."

'Would you care to see our wine list, water list, soda list, tea list, coffee list, single malt scotch list, or beer list?'

"That's a plain burger and black coffee? But what kind of plain burger and what kind of black coffee?"

"We'll start with the appetizer, move on to the entree, and then finish up with dessert."

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

"Can I tell you about a few items that aren't on the menu?"

National Coffee Day

"If Sinatra had eaten here he'd have loved it."

"Just so I’m understanding the menu, the ‘Old Forge wheel with rosemary-infused pancetta’ is essentially a $36 Hot Pocket?"

"I recommend number five if you have only $20 so that you can still leave a tip."

"We suggest you study the menu in our reading room before being seated in the dining room."

'Now what? Everything I can pronounce is OFF!'

"....and hold the garlic."

"Oh sorry, those are the Ten Commandments. Hang on, I'll get you a menu."

"The Halloween Special is the pork and kraut. It'll come back and haunt you."

"I''' have the misspelled 'Ceasar' salad and the improperly hyphenated veal osso-buco."

'Physical or Social Science?'

What's the insect de jour?

"Ooh, that looks delicious! Does it photograph well?"

"How would you like your soy protein, mixed tocopherols and methylcellulose patty?"

"How 'local' is the fish?"

A menu with risks and benefits

'Would you like that organic, locally grown, carbon neutral, fair trade, trans fat-free, sugar-free, gluten-free and peanut-free?'

"I can't have anything that's a food."

'I'll have the 'All of the above.''

"A number of items on that menu are consistently chosen by an overwhelming majority of the American people."

"I'm trying to decide between water and sunlight."