If your idea of fine dining is a date at Olive Garden, you’re probably used to menus stating exactly what’s on them. Each dish has a simple name, and its components are clearly listed below. But nowadays, restaurants will use any tactic they can to up their prices, including using a heavy hand to smother their food in fancy buzzwords.
Have you noticed recently how many menus are suddenly featuring hot honey, truffles, and microgreens? These trendy buzzwords don’t only make meals more Instagrammable, they also seem to be a tactic restaurants use to justify their high prices. Threads users have recently been discussing some of the most popular phrases restaurants are haphazardly slapping on menus, so we've compiled a list of them below. Enjoy reading through, and be sure to upvote the ones that make you lose your appetite too!
#46
Charcuterie. Pretty sure it’s meat and cheese on a platter that we’ve been eating forever
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2points
#47
Crudo. I speak Spanish so it’s just so jarring (and pretentious) to see the word raw. Just say what it is.
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2points
#48
"homemade" - it's a restaurant! How can it be homemade?
"fresh" vegetables/fruit/salad/anything... Were you thinking of serving stale food?
"fresh" vegetables/fruit/salad/anything... Were you thinking of serving stale food?
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1point
#49
I very dislike, a QR code, please seat me with a proper menu. Also when you walk in at a restaurant and there are several tables open and they ask you if you have a reservation 🙈🤣
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1point
#51
Not roll my eyes but I’m grossed out when I see bone marrow on a menu. I donated bone marrow - so … ewww
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0points
#56
"Lobster" when you know damn well it's Langostino. Which is a lobster but stop playing in my face
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-1point
