So, what’s cooking? Seriously, WTF is cooking?
Welcome to the second installment in our series of snapshots showcasing the Bay Area’s greatest glitches on signs, window displays, and menus.
Waste not, want not..Let’s eat up, and just hope it’s not waste.
My theory is that “waist” is belly, as in “pork belly”…or maybe it’s “belli,” as in “embellish” which is the bigger mystery here. Have a clue? Leave a comment!
With a side of small fries, please.
Excuse me miss, can you tell me how that’s prepared?
The dirty kid brother of the Folsom Street Fair takes place this Sunday
On occasion, I’ll be sharing snapshots of some of the most interesting signage and promotional material I come across in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perhaps due to our relatively mild weather, we’ve got a veritable street front museum of vintage retail signage. We’ve also got a large percentage of clever, sassy, and flat-out weird folks in our midst—and they sometimes find highly amusing ways of expressing themselves. And we’ve got plenty of hardworking entrepreneurial immigrants who, frankly, have every right to focus on running the nuts-and-bolts of their businesses rather than proper English spelling and translation—But let’s face it, there are some mighty funny errors to be found on Chinese menus and the like.
Today, as we head into this weekend’s notorious annual Up Your Alley street fair, may I proudly present the difference between our part of the world and the Vatican: One of the most irksome recent acts by the Catholic church was its smackdown of the Yale Divinity School’s Sister Margaret Farland, who sensibly suggested that masturbation—in addition to providing pleasure—could be a sensible part of the world’s birth control repertory.
Clearly, that’s not the presiding perspective in the Bay Area, as inadvertently noted by this delightful storefront awning I discovered in Oakland last week*:
And woman, too…right Sister Margaret?
*Beyond the laughs-in-translation value of its slogan, this store is truly remarkable. Check out the MAN MUST WAK video after the jump…
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