Entries Tagged as 'food'

just doing their part to uphold the reputation of americans abroad

September 2nd, 2008 · 118 Comments

edward says this sign was posted on every floor and inside all the elevators at the hotel that headquartered ucla’s study abroad program in granada, spain last semester.

can you blame them? i mean, really — what a waste of perfectly good manchego!

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · cheese · espana · exclamation-point happy! · noise · spain · university

coming soon: the all-you-can-spell buffet

August 31st, 2008 · 76 Comments

jesse says he spotted this sign at a great mongolian restaurant in the dallas area. “they recently changed their name from ton’s mongolian grill to tao’s garden, but apparently they haven’t figured out how to spell it yet.”

related: best. potluck. theme. ever.

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Tags: "customer service" · CAPS LOCK · dallas · food · restaurant · spelling and grammar police

how good is that?

August 19th, 2008 · 175 Comments

our anonymous submitter in takoma park, maryland says her roommate/landlord is constantly leaving little post-its and e-mails for the other roommates, but i think these two have a bit of yum-o synchronicity.

related: the first thing i did when i woke up

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Tags: e-mail · food · maryland · takoma park · thanks (but not really) · the earth

massive canine infestation

August 5th, 2008 · 214 Comments

this notice was spotted by tom from cambridge, england in “the tiniest little toilet in my college hall” — so tiny, he says, there’s “barely enough room to fit a dog in there if you tried.” (but a few raw steaks? perhaps!)

(massive canine infestation: sharing the stage with the light brown apple moth debacle at [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · cambridge · food · fun with malapropisms · say wha? · toilet · u.k. · university · vermin

perhaps it’s time for a little group therapy?

May 19th, 2008 · 112 Comments

our anonymous submitter spotted these notes in the shared kitchen of a “professional building” — one our submitter says is full of shrinks. perhaps one of them could deduce whether “i.e. me” fits the DSM’s criteria for a diagnosis…or whether she’s just having a little trouble with her latin.

related: eau dear
extra credit: “food odors [...]

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Tags: casual xenophobia · food · freudian shit · i.e. or e.g. it's all greek -- or is it latin? -- to me · odor · office fridge · oh snap

maybe it’s time for sally struthers to get involved

May 14th, 2008 · 139 Comments

with finals and thesis deadlines coming up, stress levels among grad students at uc-berkeley have been running high (which means attention to the finer points of, say, apostrophe use, are running low). and now there’s a lunch thief on the loose!

sadly, says our submitter, the note’s multi-pronged approach (guilt, threats, helpful advice) seems to [...]

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Tags: apostrophe abuse · berkeley · california · food · fridge · kitchen · preggers · stealing · the homeless · university · warning

grimace and the fry kids

April 23rd, 2008 · 123 Comments

the school in l.a. where anna works is under renovation, so a lot of the kids cut through the library on their way to and from the cafeteria. recently, one of these fine young scholars spilled an entire basket of fries…and kept walking. one of anna’s coworkers picked them up, but he missed one. another [...]

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Tags: food · kids today · library · mcdonalds