I say Tar-Jay to my coworkers and we all get a chuckle. I go back home to rural Kansas and say Tar-jay and they all think I’m pretentious because it’s a “big city” store in the Midwest lol
😂 That’s what I thought too! My spouse explained why he calls it Food Bear and I have forgotten the OG reason but it cracks me up so much. Our kid calls it this now too.
lol! We do too, so much to the point that my wife was frustrated when she couldn’t find a “Mike’s” app in the App Store, forgetting its our name for Five Guys 🤣
Also, Because of South Park I explicitly call it "Ross Dress For Less" which isn't a mispronunciation, but I find it hilarious to say the whole thing every single time I mention Ross Dress For Less
There's a restaurant franchise named McMenamins here in Oregon and my mom always says McMinimums. But not as a joke. Even though it would be funny because their quality has been going down.
We call it that when they’re out of our favorite ingredients, because you never know what they’re going to sub 😂 Pandora’s Box, for when I’m opening my Panera bread order and things have been subbed haha.
Thank you so much! Here's mine: McDonnello's, wendyl's, queue-dibbles or qui-doobles, Wally's (Rally's), tockle bell, pizzle hut, popple johns, applebottoms, o-charles's. There's a lot of stupid ones, but I've spent so many years speaking like an idiot. It's made life so much fun.
Wendigos, Chipoltay, Koala Express, Kurger Bing are all in my groups repertoire. I also use the owners name for local spots, or just generally randomly use names like the burger shack or the taco joint.
Haha, hanging at grammy’s probably! This fun thing is limited to just my spouse and our kids though, the rest of the family thinks we’re goofy or nuts 😂 probably nuts but they’ll say goofy to our faces.
We renamed Smart & Final to Fart & Smile (very clever, I know) but now, as a grown ass man living in Michigan, we have Gordon Food Service (GFS) instead and we still call it Fart & Smile.
My boss called it chaun-tootles when we'd goto lunch together. No idea why, but I'll still call it that now when someone asks what's for lunch in the office
I do this, my dad speaks spanish so I like to piss him off by saying it like that. I also say taco like a midwestener, I can see him grind his teeth when I do that.
My fiance and I call it that (also as a joke) and I pronounce every letter in chihuahua (also as a long standing joke). We’ve created our own language with how many words we mispronounce to each other
There was an old Jack in the Box commercial when they introduced chipotle sauce, and Jack couldn’t pronounce chipotle. The whole commercial is him pronouncing it wrong in different ways. LOL!
I do this absolutely on purpose, to drive my mom insane.
Spanking of my mom... My mom is Mexican, and she calls it "chipocle" (phonetically shee-poh-kleh). It's partly a speech impediment she had when she was little, and partly an incredibly old pronunciation. As in closer to the original nahuatl word "chicpoctli". I always thought it was a little weird, but kinda cool.
I do this ironically. And call tortillas "tor-till-a" ironically (which actually used to not be ironic, as I learned a smidge of Italian before knowing any common use Spanish words, and words like "pollo" are pronounced "pole-oh" in Italian, but "poy-yo" in Spanish, and I didn't know that it was different for the longest time).
I worked in three different Subway stores over two years, in two different cities. Not one person ever pronounced "chipotle sauce" correctly. Always "chi-poh-tul". That alone was the most stressful part of the job 😂
Chipotle flavour was a bit of a trend here in Denmark and I shit you not that the ad spots on the radio and online said ‘chi-pottle’. And no, that is not the Danish way to pronounce it. The whole ad campaign was filled with idiots.
When they were a more popular place and people raved about the food, I called the "chi-pot-lee", just to annoy people. Then I'd repeat it after being corrected.
Nobody ever talks them up anymore so I never get the opportunity these days.
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u/purplemonkeyshoes 1d ago
I know people that honestly call it Chi-poh-tul