tahnan | Mmm, a Cupertino sandwich

Just a passing note--I'd remarked not long ago that I try to make it a policy not to eat "ruebens [sic]". I generally try to extend that to any misspelled food, on the grounds that if you haven't taken the time to figure out what it is you're serving, there's a decent chance it's not any good. (Except that I'd pretty much starve at your average decent Chinese restaurant.)

Nevertheless, I've really come to quite like the Shaw Erma sandwich at the nearby food truck. While it's possible that they're just huge humor fans ("Ms. Bombeck! Please, come here, I'd like you to meet George Bernard"), I suspect that this is just bad spelling. I'll forgive it in this case because it's almost undoubtedly the Cupertino Effect. MS Word doesn't suggest "Shaw Erma" for "shawarma", but it does for "shawerma", which the Web tells me is an alternate spelling (alternate transliteration?).

I'm lucky, I suppose; the word turns out not to be in Merriam Webster, either, and if the vendor had gone with their suggestion for "shawarma", I'd be ordering the schwarmerei sandwich.

(LJ's spellchecker, incidentally, doesn't like most of those words. Including "href", which is why I never use LJ's spellchecker; but also, if I did rely on it, the vendors would be introducing Ms. Bomber or Ms. Brubeck to G.B., and the Cupertino effect, in which "Cupertino" is already a spellchecker's suggestion for a misspelling, would become the Couperin or Coppertone or Carpeting effect.)