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Menus, More or Less? Too Much Description May Reveal the Dishes You Love to Hate
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
January 14, 1987| Author:
Phyllis C. Richman
| Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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First there was the "burger and fries." Then McDonald's got us
chanting: "Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese,
pickles, onion on a sesame-seed bun" (which, I realize as I type
this, is as imprinted in my memory as the Pledge of Allegiance to the
flag).
But it went even further. We started finding on menus such
elaborate descriptions of dishes that they specified the brand names
of the ingredients. "Baked Harrington ham," read the menu at
Chardonnay in Washington. An...
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