Can anyone tell me what ‘SQ’ stands for – on restaurant menus, usually next to expensive items, like crayfish? Two suggestions have included ‘Subject to Quantity’ and ‘Seasonal Quotation’, but nobody I have spoken to really knows for sure.
Categories
- 100 word challenge (107)
- Cycling (10)
- Grandpa's Story (15)
- History (5)
- Other Stuff (29)
- Photo Gallery (7)
- Running (5)
- Short Stories (12)
- Silly Stuff (39)
- Theatre (11)
-
-
Recent Comments
Tails on Shoot me Now Tails on Shoot me Now adt on Opening Night Val from CapeTown on Opening Night Dusty Muffin on Shoot me Now adt on Shoot me Now Dusty Muffin on Shoot me Now possum on Shoot me Now oniongirl on Shoot me Now Dusty Muffin on Shoot me Now Val from CapeTown on Shoot me Now Dusty Muffin on Shoot me Now Mr Muffin on Shoot me Now Dusty Muffin on Tulbagh Earthquake – 40 … Possum on Tulbagh Earthquake – 40 … -
Recent Posts
- Opening Night
- Shoot me Now
- Tulbagh Earthquake – 40 Years on
- The Flip Side
- Speechless Saturday
- Slow Children Crossing: Sê Weer?
- Touché
- Ioannis NK Sugar Spill: The End is Nigh
- Speechless Sunday
- Armstrong Fever
- Coming Home
- State of the Nation: Education
- Retro Ray-Bans
- 55 Pilot Whales beached at Kommetjie
- I’ve met the Black Dog.
Archives
- October 2009 (2)
- September 2009 (2)
- August 2009 (5)
- July 2009 (1)
- June 2009 (3)
- May 2009 (1)
- March 2009 (6)
- February 2009 (2)
- December 2008 (1)
- November 2008 (7)
- October 2008 (16)
- September 2008 (23)
- August 2008 (23)
- July 2008 (31)
- June 2008 (5)
- May 2008 (5)
- April 2008 (3)
- March 2008 (7)
- February 2008 (1)
- December 2007 (1)
- November 2007 (4)
- October 2007 (7)
- September 2007 (6)
- August 2007 (10)
- July 2007 (4)
- June 2007 (12)
- May 2007 (3)
- April 2007 (1)
-
Blog Stats
- 15,350 lurkers
-
Top Posts
Meta
-
-
-
-
- Follow me on twitter
means “Salon Qualitaire”. Originally because eating houses used to judge the quality of the item served, and therefore the price.
We now use a more common english “subject to quotation”…certain foods like shellfish or specialised meats are weighed before cooking or have fluctuating or seasonal prices.
But google could have given you that…
Thank you for putting me out of my misery so quickly!
I did indeed try Google, and ’sq’ returned 96,100,000 results. ’sq menu restaurant’ returned 1,010,000 results
Salon Qualitaire is also not on acronyms.com
There is only one return on Google for “Salon Qualitaire” – from women24.com
…Dolcemundo…
“stupid question”…if you have to ask – you can’t afford it.
Wow! I didn’t know that.
Salon Qualitaire!
Sounds like something one should repeat over and over…
not the payment part of course. Yikes.
I’ve always taken it as ’spensive quote and ordered something else!
I like “stupid question” !!
‘Spensive Quote is also good!
Thanks for popping by, bewilderbeast. Looks like you’re getting the hang of this blogging beast…
Seasonal quote- the cost of especially seafood differs with season so does the retail
Thanks Morné. but I think ‘Seasonal quote’ is another one of those ‘educated’ guesses, much like people try to guess what ’sic’ means, or ‘QED’. I appreciate the feedback though, thanks.