Key Lime WHAT?

[mark_asphodel]

OK, food people.

I don't often encounter words I flat-out don't know on menus, especially not American hotel menus, but last night the the joint here at the Doubletree claimed to offer a Key Lime Pie with a tangy "polmbage" on a nice croute.

What is this polmbage?  Google thinks I'm trying to look up an outdated form of TB treatment, which sounds unappetizing in the extreme.

Comments

[blankspectrum]

I think "plombage" can also mean "cavity filling," like the kind one would get in their teeth, in French. o_o

...I'm going to guess that whoever wrote the menu thought they were being fancy en français and decided it would be a good word to describe pie filling. Either way though, it's not exactly appetizing in context. :D;

[swanchika]

It does mean that. Exactly the kind of thing you'd rather avoid having in your mouth...

Was "garniture" too plain-sounding for them ? :D

[mark_asphodel]

So, they didn't just pick an inappropriate word, they spelled that word wrong. Heh.

Thanks!

[writerawakened]

LOL