Halifax is blessed with an abundance of awesome restaurants. Many of them display their daily specials on those sidewalk signs, carefully written with colourful chalk and charming to behold.
Just one thing… please learn to spell!! I’m speaking of one place in particular, but all places in general. Potato has no ‘e’ on the end, neither does tomato. It’s Caesar, not Ceasar. I could go on but you get my drift.
Hey, I know not everyone is a good speller but if you’re writing it on a sign for everyone to see, get it right. I, pretentious chick that I am, won’t eat at a place where the staff can’t spell ‘potato’. If English is a second language, well, I can deal but otherwise ask a third grader to correct your spelling for you. —Spelling Police
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
I was just walking by a really pretentious french restaurant and on their spec. board they had creme fresh (fraiche) to me that’s beyond forgivable loose the snooty there jon-pal 🙂
my fave is that place that offers vagetarian pad thai
“vagetarian pad thai” huh? Why does that make me think of “Look at These Hipsters Fucking.com?
on a food & beverage server’s less-than-minimum-wage one should expect to get what they pay for… an English degree does NOT work there.
I loved the sign they had at the Greek Fest one year: ‘ALL DRINGS $2.00’.
Less than minimum wage? Sure, kay. More random facts with no basis.
you’re right, I’ve got an Ontarion perspective now. Min wage is 10.25 but food & bev servers make 8.90. In any case, you should not expect higher learning but only marginal reading skills from food & beverage servers.
So we should definitely not expect any sort of learning from you. Gotcha.
I saw “Cesar” on one menu on Agricola. Even after I pointed it out to the server, no one changed it. No tip from me….sorry if they can’t spell, I can’t read where it says “Tip.”
Does anyone own a dictionary? Tomatoe and potatoe are both proper English. Potato and tomato are Americanized versions that came to be shortly after the American revolution. Microsoft is an American company, that is why spell check says they are wrong. It also says my email address is wrong.
I HATE spelling mistakes on restaurant signs and menus. I’ll even go one step further: I hate the “cutesy” variations of words, like Toys R Us (with the R written backwards, no less). Yes, language evolves, but in my opinion, it shouldn’t DEvolve.