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* A man walks into a restaurant in Mexico and tries using his minimal Spanish to order steak with mushrooms. Eventually he resorts to drawing a cow and a mushroom on his napkin. The waiter goes out for a few minutes, then comes back and hands him an umbrella and two tickets to a bullfight.
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* A guy dining at a fancy restaurant is horrified to see some kind of bizarre or unappealing meal on the menu (such as deer horn or walrus blubber) and complains to the waiter, who goes and castigates the chef: "You forgot to translate the menu into French again!"
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* A Paul Jennings short story has an illiterate boy as its protagonist. After being embarrassed when he tries to order "the ladies' room" with sauce at a fast-food restaurant, he simply resorts to saying "Same again" after the person before him orders. This backfires once when he gets given 15 cheeseburgers because the woman before him was a youth worker ordering for a social group.
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* A man walks into a Georgian restaurant and orders a bunch of "your finest akhvlediani". The waiter answers: "It's our manager's last name, not a dish."
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Alternatively, the character could order an actual dish, but adds a provision 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. Compare IsItSomethingYouEat. In that case, they at least ''ask'' before attempting to order the wifi or the pageone. See also WrongRestaurant, in which the character orders something from an entirely different establishment than the one they're visiting.
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Alternatively, the character could order an actual dish, but adds add a provision 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. Compare IsItSomethingYouEat. In that case, they at least ''ask'' before attempting to order the wifi or the pageone. See also WrongRestaurant, in which the character orders something from an entirely different establishment than the one they're visiting.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13666795/1/Project-Management-for-Beginners Project Management for Beginners]]'':
-->'''Harry:''' So, what other challenges has your father done?\\
'''Hermione:''' Well, the longest one was when he built a model railway in the attic; that took ages because he made all the scenery and platforms and passengers by hand. When I was five, he built a small rowing boat from reclaimed wood and some scrap metal from a local junk yard, then he successfully rowed it across Derwentwater. Oh, and a few years ago we booked a holiday to Italy and Dad decided to learn Italian before we went. He only had four months to study it, so his target was just to become fluent enough to ask directions and order meals out and so on. Dad's grasp of spoken Italian was rather good for the most part, although I do remember one day in a Milanese bistro when I asked him to order me a glass of orange juice and a cheese sandwich for my lunch, and what showed up was a cup of coffee and a steak pie. And that was quite a surprise really, because Dad had told us it was a vegetarian restaurant!
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13666795/1/Project-Management-for-Beginners Project Management for Beginners]]'':
-->'''Harry:''' So, what other challenges has your father done?\\
'''Hermione:''' Well, the longest one was when he built a model railway in the attic; that took ages because he made all the scenery and platforms and passengers by hand. When I was five, he built a small rowing boat from reclaimed wood and some scrap metal from a local junk yard, then he successfully rowed it across Derwentwater. Oh, and a few years ago we booked a holiday to Italy and Dad decided to learn Italian before we went. He only had four months to study it, so his target was just to become fluent enough to ask directions and order meals out and so on. Dad's grasp of spoken Italian was rather good for the most part, although I do remember one day in a Milanese bistro when I asked him to order me a glass of orange juice and a cheese sandwich for my lunch, and what showed up was a cup of coffee and a steak pie. And that was quite a surprise really, because Dad had told us it was a vegetarian restaurant!
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* In one ''Belvedere'' strip Belvedere and his owner are sitting in a fancy restaurant while two waiters bring in a platter containing a cooked elephant.
-->'''Owner:''' Do you have to order in French?
-->'''Owner:''' Do you have to order in French?
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* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': In "Pompeii and Circumstance", Fred is continually misreading his Italian phrase book. As a result, he orders a potted plant at a restaurant.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': In "Pompeii and Circumstance", Fred is continually misreading his Italian phrase book. As a result, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orderflub_3.png he orders a potted plant at a restaurant.]]
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* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': In one episode Tim Riggins (very poor, basically one step up from living in a trailer) goes to lunch at a fancy country club with his girlfriend Lyla and her father (very affluent). He is visibly uncomfortable and decides to order squab as his meal (squab is domestic pigeon meat).
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* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': In one episode Tim Riggins (very poor, basically one step up from living in a trailer) goes to lunch at a fancy country club with his girlfriend Lyla and her father (very affluent). He is visibly uncomfortable and decides to order squab as his meal (squab is domestic pigeon meat). He then specifies that he wants it ''rare''.
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* Artist James [=McNeil=] Whistler (as in [[WhistlersMother Mother]]) reportedly went to a restaurant in France and ordered a flight of stairs.
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* Artist James [=McNeil=] Whistler (as in [[WhistlersMother Mother]]) reportedly went to a restaurant in France and ordered a flight of stairs. (Probably a confusion between "escalier" for "stairs" and "escargot" for "snails".)
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* In ''Film/MrBeansHoliday'', when he decides to dine at the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Train_Bleu_(restaurant) Le Train Bleu]] in the Gare du Lyon, he winds up ordering a langoustine (Norway lobster), which he doesn't eat. Of note is that the paltry amount of spending money that was part of the prize was barely enough for his meal, forcing him to complete his journey without being able to buy anything.
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* In Film/MrBeansHoliday, when he decides to dine at the [[ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Train_Bleu_(restaurant) Le Train Bleu]] in the Gare du Lyon, he winds up ordering a langoustine, which he doesn't eat. Of note is that the paltry amount of spending money that was part of the prize was barely enough for his meal, forcing him to complete his journey without being able to buy anything.
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* In Film/MrBeansHoliday, when he decides to dine at the [[ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Train_Bleu_(restaurant) Le Train Bleu]] in the Gare du Lyon, he winds up ordering a langoustine, which he doesn't eat. Of note is that the paltry amount of spending money that was part of the prize was barely enough for his meal, forcing him to complete his journey without being able to buy anything.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics:''
** Archie takes Veronica to a fancy, Middle-Eastern restaurant which is so authentic the staff doesn't speak English. Archie assures Veronica that he ordered lamb, but Veronica says it doesn't taste right. Archie flags down a waiter, points to the meat, and asks, "Baa baa?". The waiter replies, [[ForeignQueasine "No! Hee-haw, hee-haw!"]]
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-->'''Betty:''' I heard that when Archie took you out to that fancy restaurant last night, he placed his order entirely in Chinese! I'll bet you were surprised!
-->'''Veronica:''' ''(fuming)'' You bet I was! It was an ''Italian'' restaurant!
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** Archie takes Veronica to a fancy, Middle-Eastern restaurant which is so authentic the staff doesn't speak English. Archie assures Veronica that he ordered lamb, but Veronica says it doesn't taste right. Archie flags down a waiter, points to the meat, and asks, "Baa baa?". The waiter replies, [[ForeignQueasine "No! Hee-haw, hee-haw!"]]
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-->'''Betty:''' I heard that when Archie took you out to that fancy restaurant last night, he placed his order entirely in Chinese! I'll bet you were surprised!
-->'''Veronica:''' ''(fuming)'' You bet I was! It was an ''Italian'' restaurant!
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* The ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' comic strip has Magoo and Waldo at a Mexican restaurant. Magoo asks if the "Alvarados" are good, only to be informed that is the name of the proprietor. Magoo tetchily changes his order to hamburger.
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* ''Series/KenanAndKel'': Kel tries to order at a Chinese restaurant, only to accidentally tell the waiter "I want to park my truck on your mother's face" in Chinese.
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* ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'':
** In one strip, a character orders some "lesbian cuisine." The waiter informs him that they have ''Lebanese'' cuisine. He needs some time to cope.
** In another, the character points to a sign and requests his "free wife." The waiter informs him that it's "free ''Wi-Fi''."
** In one strip, a character orders some "lesbian cuisine." The waiter informs him that they have ''Lebanese'' cuisine. He needs some time to cope.
** In another, the character points to a sign and requests his "free wife." The waiter informs him that it's "free ''Wi-Fi''."
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* ''Series/EmilyInParis'': While having lunch with Mindy, Emily accidentally orders a condom with her croissant thanks to her awful French.
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* ''Series/EmilyInParis'': While having lunch with Mindy, Emily accidentally orders a condom with her croissant thanks to her awful French.
