Christine Gardner /Staff

I saw last week someone was writing about chocolate mousse and typed chocolate moose instead. Hey, it happens to the best of us and usually with something spell check doesn’t catch because the accidental misspelling is a word, but just the wrong word.

Things like there, their and they’re or effect or affect. You have to think about righting the write word and hope that our mind do-esn’t play a trick on us. Otherwise, our brain tells our fingers chocolate moose when we really mean chocolate mousse.

Along these same lines, grubhub.com, a popular website that offers online menus and dining information for thousands of restaurants, did a recent study of misspelled words in all of the menus in their database.

The results were rather surprising. Mainly because the top 10 misspellings were rather common words, but even worse this is on a business menu. If you’re cooking it and selling it shouldn’t you know how to spell it? Even better, don’t you proofread your business materials before releasing them to the public?

Here are the 10 most misspelled words on menus and the most common ways they are misspelled:

Vegetarian: vegitarian

Macaroni: macoroni, maccaroni

Chipotle : Chipolte

Reuben: Rueben

Tomato, potato: tomatoe, potatoe

Sandwich: Sanwich, Sandwitch, Sandwhich

Dessert: Desert (Misspelled on 10 percent of menus.)

Omelet/Omelette: omlette or omlett (Misspelled on 17 percent of menus.)

Caesar: Cesar, Ceasar (Misspelled on 40 percent of menus.)

Fettuccine: fettucine, fettucini, fettuccini (Misspelled on 70 percent of menus.)

Can you believe that 70 percent of the restaurants that serve fettuccine have it misspelled on the menu? And almost every restaurant has some type of Caesar salad on the menu or a Chicken Caesar Sandwich. I guess I should be on the lookout for the menu that says Chicken Cesar Sanwitch.

Other commonly misspelled foods include raspberry. Many leave out the p and just write rasberry. Then, there’s pomegranate. There are more ways to misspell that one than I have room for in this column.

I’ve also seen chocolate spelled choclate. And rhubarb spelled rubarb.

Then there’s avocado being spelled how many pronounce it and spell it avacado.

For me, I always have to think twice when I type the word vinaigrette. And worst of all hors ‘d oeuvres. Wow. That’s the first time I typed that correctly without having to look over to the bookshelf and check one of my cookbooks.