Apostrophe catastrophe, # 116

Via Tim Matter, an apostrophe catastrophe on the menu of The Countryman in Staverton. As the second screenshot shows, the pub’s website also has mangled apostrophes, while an adjacent date suggests that review/update schedules are being ignored:

Link: The Countryman, ‘Food’

Taylors, coffee's; menu's x2

Handritten, # 7

Just Nick says he spotted this somewhere in Nuneaton, adding: ‘Not sure of the specific place — we had to take it at traffic lights!’

parkinig, onley

Multimangle, # 50

Spotted by Tim Matter at The Phene in south-west London comes this polite notice, complete with idiosyncratic spelling and a final sentence that seems to have lost its way:

noisey; derrier; those wanting a cheeky cigarette after 10pm, please do so quietly without your drinks

Not Washed or Cooked, # 305

Des Pond of Slough was looking at Portmeirion’s webcams for activities connected with the Prisoner Convention when he came upon this mangle:

Link: Portmeirion, Webcams — Town Hall Camera

Gazzebo

Double-take, # 218

The penultimate seasonal mangle of Easter 2016 comes from Waitrose (and has been sitting in the ‘seasonal’ folder since last year, awaiting its moment). It’s hard to tell whether it is a typographical slip or an attempt to make an unfamiliar word logical:

Link: Waitrose Media Centre, ‘Sinmel Cake’

Sinmel cake

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 228

Today’s seasonal offering brings a range of mangles wrapped a short paragraph and finished with an astoundingly apt typographical slip:

Link: Community Restaurants’ Blog, ‘So how well did Restaurants do this Easter?’

the the; thats; 16830000; Fifty one; holiday themed buffet; in that order respectively; traditional Eater meal

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 99

A Good Friday mangle from the food database of a fitness website. It is not ultimately clear whether the misnaming of the foodstuff is due to a typographical error or to genuine confusion, but, as a bonus, the the name of the source is mangled too:

Link: myfitnesspal, ‘Calories in Wait rose Diet hot cross bum’

Wait rose Diet hot cross bum

Handritten, # 6

Gary Hazell is surprised by a description on the board of tasting notes for guest ales at the Gluepot public house in Swindon:

larger bitterness

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 222

Ryan McCarthy spotted this on the menu at The Fox on The Hill, a Wetherspoon pub in Denmark Hill, London:

Cartmel for Caramel OR Cartmel sticky toffee pudding for Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding

Not Washed or Cooked, # 283

The Old Hand & Diamond Inn’s menu, featured yesterday, does not confine its mangles to Scottish food and drink:

Link: The Old Hand & Diamond Inn, Coedway

rasberry, rosemay for rosemary (twice), course for coarse; stilton for Stilton

Multimangle, # 37

Saluting the Scots poet for a second day with some more unfortunate spellings, although this time the apostrophe mangles are avoided as Burns is not mentioned :

Link: The Old Hand & Diamond Inn, Coedway

hagis, whiskey

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 215

Given that it is reproduced all over the internet, it isn’t easy to work out where this mangle originated, but this recipe — usually marked ‘Recipe courtesy of Juan Rivas’ — has been copied verbatim, as these examples suggest:

Link: Food Network, ‘Grilled Pork Lion with Garlic Rosemary Marinade’

Link: Cooking Channel, ‘Grilled Pork Lion with Garlic Rosemary Marinade’

pork lion

Multimangle, # 31

With a touch of déjà vu (see yesterday), here is another Shoulder of Mutton menu from The Rugby Register, submitted by Des Pond of Slough. His main concern was the conceit in the titles of the courses, which, as he says, starts so well then goes so wrong; but there are several other mangles on offer too, not all of them in English:

Link: The Rugby Register, North and Villages edition, advertisement for The Shoulder of Mutton, p. 23

first bell, second bell, full peel; goats cheese; gileete potato for gillette; french toast; mush for mash (?); celeriace; passion fruit; frangipan for frangipane; cinemon

Multimangle, # 30

From Des Pond of Slough comes this extract, featuring an apostrophe catastrophe, a homophone and an unusual, if unmangled, description of a traditional menu item:

Link: The Rugby Register, North and Villages edition, advertisement for The Shoulder of Mutton, p. 37

bite’s for bites; fayre for fare; [soup of the moment]

Not Washed or Cooked, # 273

Spotted at the Wibbas Down Arms in Wimbledon by Dr Faustus:

sirlion

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 207

Old Chelsea has been dining at Ciao Bella in London, where at least one mangled dessert is on offer:

covered with tick layer

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 105

John Holloway spotted a small herd of misplaced apostrophes in Walton in the Naze:

eel’s, cockle’s, prawn’s, mussel’s, whelk’s, winkle’s, crab’s

Double-take, # 193

Mo Juste is understandably puzzled by the relation between this praise-filled TripAdvisor review and its title — and that’s before arriving at the mangle and the ambiguous final sentence:

Link: TripAdvisor, Review of Shajahan, ‘Never fails to disappoint’

Never fails to disappoint; Restuarant; The phal and vindaloo are just right if you like your spice and are not too hot

Double-take, # 192

Just Liam found a multilingual mangle in Tesco, and comments: ‘Maybe they’re taking their motto of “every little helps” a bit too seriously.’ At least the noun is plural in the French version, but ‘en poudre’ implies dried into powder form (for instance, lait en poudre is powdered milk), which is clearly not the case with noodles, and where the apostrophe comes from is anyone’s guess. Then there’s the rather odd adjective beneath, whose meaning is not very clear: 

The prefix ‘un-’ (to indicate that they haven’t been) would seem more appropriate than ‘non-’; but the point is superfluous, since it seems unlikely that fried noodles could be dried.

Dried Noodle; noodles en poud’re; non-fried

Double-take, # 191

The preposition in this title is superfluous since the book (spotted in Aldi, as I recall) is about cooking for one’s friends and not, as the phrasing implies, having them round to help prepare food:

An internet trawl reveals that many compilers have use this title or some variation of it, but British-English and US-English dictionaries confirm that the verb takes a direct object.

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