Country club takes down 9-11 themed menu and apologizes..

[Demovictory9]

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[BlackSkimmer]

1. I read about this. What the af?

Who would think that a good idea?

[Hortensis]

2. Sounds like someone to whom it's not real got carried away by the creative process.

Of course, in that area it was especially real for many.

"Remember-tinis."

[LeftInTX]

5. The drink sounds pretty good. Change the name and serve it at another time.

The rest of the menu sounds like very local type food.

[Hortensis]

20. :) Omg, just looked. I've had some traumatically sweet -tini

experiences, and that one sounds like a genuine PTSD-generator.

9/11 falls on a Sunday this year. Likely most churches across the nation will do remembrances, hundreds of thousands...

[7wo7rees]

3. Just WTF!! Good heavens!!

Little "marketing geniuses". NOT!! Jeebus!!!
Ms7wo7rees

[riversedge]

4. kinda like eating the dead--sorry but that is what I thought right away.

[Renew Deal]

19. I wonder when the people that thought this up were born.

Are they so young they think it’s like the 4th of July?

[Raine]

6. Geeesh! 🙄 nt

[BlackSkimmer]

7. I actually cannot believe this is real.

I mean, I guess it is, but I just can’t wrap my mind around the level of cluelessness.

[mahina]

8. Vile

And the food looks disgusting

[alphafemale]

11. I tend to avoid restaurants with picture menus.

Just a preference.

[Shermann]

12. I rely on the pictures when overseas! nt

[alphafemale]

23. But in the States these are places that appeal to people

Who want fried food from frozen smothered in gravy.

[LeftInTX]

34. Cheap Mexican joints here in the US have pics, but everything kinda looks the same LOL

This is from a place called Jalisco Grill. It's one of the nicer places.






Alot of Tex-Mex places are named Jalisco this and that (I think it's because Jalisco is the epicenter of mariachis) None of them service Jalisco style food...

[Shermann]

39. Looks good...you could eat there every day for a month and not order the same number twice! nt

[LeftInTX]

40. It all kinda tastes the same ..LOL

Variation of a theme!

I'm a one trick pony: Chalupas for me!! They're generally the healthiest

[Shermann]

41. My go-to lunch order has been the Speedy Gonzales

One enchilada, one taco, served with rice OR beans.

We'd always order it with rice AND beans. There would be this awkward silence, and then the waiter would say "Si Señor".

[LeftInTX]

26. Man...you don't eat at taco joints..LOL

[alphafemale]

29. Taco trucks I go to don't have pictures.

Try again

[LeftInTX]

30. Not the trucks, but most places here do

I don't generally don't order from trucks

[alphafemale]

32. Not really.

And those photos are so poor quality and unappealing that they are not at all helpful.

[LeftInTX]

33. That's just the way it is. They're pretty abundant here

[alphafemale]

9. Keep in mind that even people in their mid 20's have no real memory of the event.

Still bad taste. Sure.

But much different than a frozen dessert place being called Custard's Last Stand?

Probably need to wait a few more decades. Agree.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. I can only imagine the 20-somethings giggling and chortling over their

supposed "wit" when they composed this menu. They really must have thought it was funny. Like writing for Jimmy Fallon or something.

[LeftInTX]

27. Based on the venue, I think it was a geriatric someone who did this

It says country club, but looks more like a nursing home!

The prices are too cheap for a country club

[Demovictory9]

31. Most nursing home employees are young

[Shermann]

13. The Remember-tini has issues

Does anybody drink liquor to help them remember?

[blugbox]

25. Wolverine maybe?

[Victor_c3]

14. Is it still too early to joke about the holocaust?

(I even feel ashamed of myself for making that much of a joke out of it)

[3Hotdogs]

17. "It's springtime, for Hitler, in Germany,

Winter, for Poland....."

[3Hotdogs]

18. Or, Besides that, how was the play,

Mrs. Lincoln?


Actually, "My American Cousin," was supposed to be pretty bad,

[Retrograde]

36. "Our American Cousin" played for years

was very popular, and made quite a bit of money for actress and theater owner Laura Keene. Haven't seen the play (surprisingly, no one seems to stage it much any more), but the script is available on line.

[3Hotdogs]

15. Flight 93 redirect crab dip....

[tavernier]

16. Morons.

[AntivaxHunters]

21. White Nationalism is wild

[Efilroft Sul]

22. "Freedom Flounder" sounds like a username on Free Republic.

[keep_left]

24. Well, that's...insensitive. It reminds me of the Marriott hotel in San Diego that did this...

...they offered free coffee and mini-muffins "in honor of those we lost on 9-11" back in 2013. To add insult to injury, the offer lasted all of 30 minutes!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418212/Marriott-hotels-attempt-honor-9-11-offering-free-mini-muffins-coffee-thirty-minutes-labelled-crass-insensitive.html

[dalton99a]

28. Very smart

[Retrograde]

38. Those pictures make the food look rather unappetizing

especially the chowder: with the possible exception of the flounder everything looks overly breaded/floured or drenched in cheese, the sort of things that can be pulled out of a freezer and assembled by minimum-wage kitchen staff. Cheap though (from my Bay Area perspective).

And the Remember-tini: I like rum, I like lime, I like coconut, I like pineapple - but somehow the whole seems like it would be a lot less than the sum of its parts. (and just because something is served in a cocktail glass doesn't make it a "X-tini" /peeve)

[prodigitalson]

35. Let's Rolls...nt

[lpbk2713]

37. What were they thinking?

Was it supposed to be a "fun" occasion?

[Demovictory9]

42. A party I guess

[Demovictory9]

43. A party I guess