History Main / DinnerOrderFlub

* ''TheJerk'': Marie gets the escargot at a fancy restaurant after she and Navin become rich.

* ''TheAndyGriffithShow'': while in Mount Pilot, Andy & Barney go to a fancy French restaurant. Andy isn't too proud to say he can't read the menu and just orders a steak. Barney points to menu items and gets stuff he never thought of as food.

* UsefulNotes/McDonalds had a commercial on Finnish TV where a Finnish boy goes to an obscure restaurant in an even more obscure BananaRepublic and phones to his friend in Finland, asking: ''The menu says 'culebra'. Is it edible?'' The friend answers: ''Yes, it is just the ordinary chow. Go for it!''. The commercial continues: "It wasn't ordinary chow. was it? In [=McDonalds=] you know what you get."

* ''{{Zits}}'' manages both forms in one strip. Attempting to impress Sara, Jeremy orders the radicchio, "medium rare, of course". The waiter informs him that the raddichio is a salad and the chef prefers to serve it raw. As Sara and Connie dissolve in laughter, Walt attempts to make Jeremy feel better by saying that when he and Connie were dating he once ordered "jackets required".
* One ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' strip had Guard Duck on a date with Maura, ordering "The chateaubriand, cooked medium well, and a glass of your finest pinot noir". Although the actual strip wasn't an example, Stephan Pastis said this about the strip in the "Pearls Sells Out" commentary:

* A very slight case, similar to the ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' example below: Michel Houellebecq fed one of his characters chervil, [[http://coriscos.blogspot.pt/2010/10/michel-houellebecq-does-love-exist.html and admitted]] that he has no idea how chervil tastes and just thinks it's a pretty word.

* In an episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'', Jon is at a French restaurant and tries to order in French and is served a pair of boiled athletic shoes by a FrenchJerk waiter. In another episode, he ends up ordering the chef's daughter with cheese on her.
* In ''HeyArnold'' Helga, trying to pass herself off as Arnold's French pen pal whilst in disguise and with a very rudimentary knowledge of French, attempts to make a order from the menu of a fancy French restaurant. It isn't until she's happily tucking into the dish that the waiter mentions not many kids like eating cow brain and eggs... [[ForeignQueasine which prompts a dart to the bathroom]]. Arnold played it safe with a steak and fries.

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* UsefulNotes/McDonalds had a commercial on Finnish TV where a Finnish boy goes to an obscure restaurant in an even more obscure banana republic and phones to his friend in Finland, asking: ''The menu says 'culebra'. Is it edible?'' The friend answers: ''Yes, it is just the ordinary chow. Go for it!''. The commercial continues: "It wasn't ordinary chow. was it? In [=McDonalds=] you know what you get."

* McDonalds had a commercial on Finnish TV where a Finnish boy goes to an obscure restaurant in an even more obscure banana republic and phones to his friend in Finland, asking: ''The menu says 'culebra'. Is it edible?'' The friend answers: ''Yes, it is just the ordinary chow. Go for it!''. The commercial continues: "It wasn't ordinary chow. was it? In McDonalds you know what you get."

* Levelled up as the basis for the "Mongolian Restaurant" sketch in the comedy show "The Two Ronnies". Typical comment / response: Ronnie: "That's disgusting", other Ronnie holding up two hands: "that's a lot of gusting".

* Levelled up as the basis for the "Mongolian Restaurant" sketch in the comedy show "The Two Ronnies". Typical comment / response: Ronnie: "That's disgusting", other Ronnie holding up two hangs: "that's a lot of gusting".

Alternatively, the character could order an actual dish, but add a provisio that indicates they have no idea what it is they have just ordered. When PlayedForLaughs, often involves the waiter bringing back a heaping helping of the region's finest ForeignQueasine.

* There was a ''Series/MrBean'' sketch, which involved him ordering Steak tartare, believing it was just a fancy steak and the rest of the episode revolved around him trying to get rid of all the raw beef.

* In ''HeyArnold'' Helga, trying to pass herself off as Arnold's French pen pal whilst in disguise and with a very rudimentary knowledge of French, attempts to make a order from the menu of a fancy French restaurant. It isn't until she's happily tucking into the dish that the waiter informs her that she's eating cow brain and eggs... [[ForeignQueasine which prompts a dart to the bathroom]]. Arnold played it safe with a steak and fries.

* RayStevens' song "Gourmet Restaurant" is filled with stuff like this:
-->So I asked the waiter, "How's the beef?"
-->He said "Ze steak tartar is ze best you ever had."
-->But when he brought it, friends I thought I'd seen rare meat
-->But this wasn't even hurt real bad!

* In ''Film/ReturnOfTheDragon'', Bruce Lee's character goes into a restaurant in Italy and accidentally orders every soup on the menu [[CrowningMomentOfFunny(which later makes him have to pee a lot)]].

* In ReturnOfTheDragon Bruce Lee's character goes into a restaurant in Italy and accidentally orders every soup on the menu [[CrowningMomentOfFunny(which later makes him have to pee a lot)]].

* A joke that went around during the Bush administration, probably a holdover from Main/BillClinton's years, too. A young lady came out to take the president's dinner order:
-->'''Main/GeorgeWBush:''' ''(Poring over the menu)'' I'd like a quickie, please.

* ''WsternAnimation/JamesBondJr'': In one episode, the snotty rich kid takes a girl to a restaurant and orders a meal in French. On his first attempt he orders a live lobster. When the focus returns to him after cutting to Bond's adventures for a while, he's finally managed to order ''something'' edible in French - a cheese sandwich.

* A joke that went around during the Bush administration. A young lady come out to take the president's dinner order: