Pretentious menus.

[carrust]

Me & the missus went out for a meal last week to celebrate my birthday. We scanned the menu & found this: Wild salmon on a bed of freshly picked salad, with a 'chaperon' of sun-dried tomato & balsamic vinegar dressing! Me thinks that the chef went to bed with a Thesaurus before he wrote the menu.

Any more examples?

[bimbo123456]

Must have been really "wild" salmon to need a chaperon????? Maybe this is the newest fad in cooking. There is certainly no culinary meaning in the dictionary.

[mrs_overall]

It puts me off going into a restaurant when I read the menu outside and see pretentious words, including "air", "froth" etc.
My ultimate hatred is "jus", such as "medallions of beef in a rich jus". In my book it's gravy!

[carrust]

Mrs_O. I'm with you on jus. Other things that annoy me are; oven roasted & pan fried...where else do you fry & roast things!!

[GEEMAC]

I agree on oven-roasted and pan-fried. I also like vine- grown tomatoes for the same reason and yesterday I saw 'Grass-fed steak' What else do cows eat???