Le Plonc Wine Bar
Oct. 10th, 2021 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerHow stupid does this restaurant think its customers are?
This is a real restaurant in my town: the Le Plonc wine bar.
For those who don't know "plonk" (which plonc is French for) is a derogatory term for cheap wine. Swill. And this restaurant thinks it can attract a clientele who're like, "Ooh, it has a French name, it must be good!" without recognizing the barely-different-in-a-foreign-language name?
This reminds me of one of the gags from the classic 1991 Steve Martin comedy film, L.A. Story. Martin's character repeatedly tries to get reservations at the city's hottest restaurant, whose name sounds like "Le Dioh". When he finally get in there and walks up to the building the audience finally sees the name is actually l'Idiot. The Idiot.
In this case you'd have to be l'idiot to drink le plonc.
This is a real restaurant in my town: the Le Plonc wine bar.
For those who don't know "plonk" (which plonc is French for) is a derogatory term for cheap wine. Swill. And this restaurant thinks it can attract a clientele who're like, "Ooh, it has a French name, it must be good!" without recognizing the barely-different-in-a-foreign-language name?
This reminds me of one of the gags from the classic 1991 Steve Martin comedy film, L.A. Story. Martin's character repeatedly tries to get reservations at the city's hottest restaurant, whose name sounds like "Le Dioh". When he finally get in there and walks up to the building the audience finally sees the name is actually l'Idiot. The Idiot.
In this case you'd have to be l'idiot to drink le plonc.
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Date: 2021-10-11 09:11 pm (UTC)