Food-related eggcorns

[greygarious]

An "eggcorn" is a word or phrase that is misused because the user misheard or misunderstood it, as compared to a simple typo. Usually the eggcorn (acorn) makes some sort of sense, e.g., an acorn is egg-shaped. In perusing the often-amusing entries in http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/, I noted the following eggcorns and mondegreens, which are more or less food-related:
skimp milk
skin milk
ontray
bran new
tarter sauce
curve your hunger
dough-eyed
slack your thirst
manner from heaven
sow wild oaks
soak wild oats
cut to the cheese
a bowl in a china shop
lack toast intolerant
chickens come home to roast
cuddlefish
French crawler
bread and breakfast
pits and pieces
just desserts
busting tables
one fowl swoop
lemon aid
laughing stalk
beanstock
expresso
slow gin
bullion cube
pass mustard
prefix menu
granola oil
eggclair
black and red fish
pepperika
make ends meat
lagerheads
cholester oil
with a grain assault

I'll confess that until a few years ago I did not know that it's "just deserts", from the French.

[MGZ]

Pith and vinegar

[BiscuitBoy]

vinegar-ette,
vegetable melody

[Karl S]

There is always this immortal Catherine Tate number on shit-ake mushrooms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpUn9t...

[rockycat]

I was once wearing a t-shirt that read "Shiitake Happens." I was asked to turn it inside out before appearing on TV to discuss a - wait for it - cooking-related story.

[smartie]

I'll have a slice of egg and bacon kitsch

[KaimukiMan]

i knew someone who could never figure out why a vegetable plate was called 'crud-ites', but he read it in a book, so it must be so.

[judybird]

Years ago, a friend of mine heard the daily special at a restaurant as "chile and sea bass". He thought that sounded like an interesting combination, and couldn't understand why there was only fish on his plate.

[jumpingmonk]

Actually something similar happened to someone I knew a few years ago at a resturant famous for its wide beer selection. In that case he was suprised when his Porter/House Steak didn't come with the free beverage he thought it did.

[greygarious]

Did he come to lagerheads with the management? ;>D

[jumpingmonk]

He wanted to until he was Bitter and Twisted and seriosly ale-ing. But he is a stout fellow, and decided to keep it bottled in till he got bock home and could let off some steam.

[smartie]

I like 'one fowl swoop' sounds like a really mad hen attack

[tracylee]

Dad always says "one swell foop"

[rockycat]

That happens every time I bring leftover rice out to the hens. Those hens can peck your fingers something fierce.

[Caitlin McGrath]

Lack toast intolerant = can't stand to be out of bread

With a grain assault = wedding rice throwers who overdo it

[occula]

I think I remember Fred Sanford saying "Horse Devours" for "orderbs."

I also say Toot Sweet, but that's only tangentially food-related. :-)

[tracylee]

Growing up we always said "Hoary Dories and K'napps" as well as "Birtles and Dirtles".

[tracylee]

The proof is in the putting

Dinning room

Walla (meant to be voila)
Chipolte

One other occurred to me as I was reading the list, but by the time I hit reply, it was gone from my little mind.

And expresso absolutely drives me nuts!

[jumpingmonk]

I recently saw a shushi resturaunt advertizing it served "Tuna Tar Tar"

[ricepad]

"shushi"???

[greygarious]

Tracylee, proof is in the putting DOES qualify as a genuine eggcorn, and is not on the database - you should submit it! The soup/supe is already there, as is doggie-dog. The other ones aren't genuine eggcorns, but misspellings. To be an eggcorn, it has to make some sort of sense - for example, many bouillon cubes are wrapped in shiny metallic paper and look like little ingots, or "bullion".

[KaimukiMan]

make sense like
splitting image instead of spitting image
butt naked instead of buck naked (buck naked refers to the white hind quarters of some deer)

[greygarious]

I was surprised to learn via that site that "spitting image" is itself an eggcorn: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/.... I have never heard anyone use the correct phrase, "spit and image".

[Glencora]

The only place I've ever heard "spit and image" is in a song from the musical Oklahoma. It always puzzled me -- I had no idea it was correct -- until now.

When I was a kid, I wrote that I knew people from "all woks of life." Does that count?

[tracylee]

Thanks grey, I missed the true meaning, and was thinking of my pet peeves! I'll submit it. :-)

[Jeri L]

Can't forget the ever-popular Super Salad. I've also heard people who like to cook things all day in their crack-pots. But you know, it's a doggie-dog world! (A woman I knew would then repeat for emphasis: dog-eee-dog!)