Ordering Fancy Foods: A Guide for Stupid Americans (opens in new tab)

Recently, I was at a restaurant where the menu was mostly French. There was a dish I wanted to order (Oeufs en meurette), but I didn’t know how to pronounce it so I had to do that thing where I said the familiar syllables super loud and the mystery syllables in basically a murmur (“I’ll have the OOFS EN MeurphmeETTE”).