Thursday, July 8, 2010

Salad Too Grill


I can't make sense of this name (just a block from the White House). It seems to be attempting  a play on words of some sort, but I just can't get any coherent meaning. If it were "Grill Salad Too" at least I could imagine it means a grill plus salads, or a play on "Salad to grill" meaning, I dunno, grilled salads (yuck) but I just can't get either of those from "Salad Too Grill." Nonetheless, it has a good reputation on Yelp.

4 comments:

Jason M. Adams said...

Salad Too modifies Grill, I'm thinking. Like a grill is a type of restaurant (e.g. The Fireplace Grill), so this is a grill place that does salad too. Maybe?

Chris said...

okay, yea, I can see that.

Harry Campbell said...

Or there was a place called Salad, they launched a second outlet called "Salad Too" (never understood that, but "too" seems to be used in that way in titles of shops etc), and this is the grill associated with it? OK, doesn't seem that likely.

Chris said...

Harry, yes I've seen that use of "too" as well. It seems like restaurants and nail salon's are endlessly playful with names. You never see a bank named "West Bank Too" or something like that, hehe.

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