16 Foods You're Completely Mispronouncing

By Kristin Hunt

Published on 1/18/2014 at 10:00 AM

Food pronunciation guide
Kevin Alexander/Thrillist
Kevin Alexander/Thrillist

Now that you've stopped using all those meaningless foodie phrases, it's time to improve your food vocab even further by learning the real way to pronounce common dishes. Thanks to our handy guide, the next time you read one of these words off a menu, you won't even sound dumb! We've also provided helpful phonetics for each term, which will be super useful provided you have a basic reading ability. Don't worry, we're going to get through "tzatziki" together.

Sriracha
Flickr/Kai Schreiber (edited)
Beignet
Dan Gentile/Thrillist
Anise
Wikicommons/THOR (edited)
Worcestershire sauce
Flickr/Mark Norman Francis (edited)
Crudite
Flickr/Matt Stratton (edited)
acai berry pronunciation
Shutterstock (edited)
Gnocchi
Sean Cooley/Thrillist
Bouillabaisse
City Table (edited)
Tzatziki sauce
Wikicommons/Rainer Zenz (edited)
Pho
Leo Schmid/Thrillist
Bruschetta
Drew Wood/Thrillist
Guanciale
Flickr/Renee S. Suen (edited)
Quinoa
Andrew Zimmer/Thrillist
Gyro
Aaron Miller/Thrillist
Chile relleno
Wikicommons/Jon Sullivan (edited)
guy fieri
lev radin / Shutterstock.com (edited)

Kristin Huntis a Food/Drink staff writer for Thrillist, and has spent years trying to reunite the California Raisins to no avail. Follow her at @kristin_hunt.