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In a restaurant, a menu is a list of food and beverage items available for customers to order. Menus may be presented à la carte, in which individual dishes are listed separately and priced individual
Menu showing a list of desserts in a pizzeria
Historical menu card of the banquet for German Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria on September 7, 1898, at the Hotel Kaiserhof, Porta Westfalica
A lighted display board-style menu outside a French Kebab restaurant.
An 1899 menu from Delmonico's restaurant in New York City, which called some of its selections entremets, and contained barely English descriptions such as "plombière of marrons".
Puffery
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Puffery is undue or exaggerated praise. Puffery serves to "puff up" what is being described. In law, puffery is usually invoked as a defense argument: it identifies general praising speech, typically
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…about raw or undercooked meat, poultry, eggs, and seafood. As a form of advertising, the prose found on printed menus is famous for the degree of its puffery. Menus frequently emphasize the processes used to prepare foods, call attention to exotic ingredients, and add French or other foreign language expressions…
1881 Italian ad for Cannabis indica cigarillos, promising to "stop the most violent attacks of asthma, nervous cough, colds, extinction of voice, facial neuralgia and insomnia, and to combat all laryngeal and respiratory ailments."