weird menu

on our last evening in Australia, we ate in a restaurant where the menu, rather than showing us food items, showed only the ingredients in them. for example, you might have a line saying "beef, potatoes, parsley, legumes". 

whilst i understand they were trying to be different, this elicited a number of questions that the waiters had to waste their time answering. what kind of beef cut or how was it cooked - was it a steak, a roast, a stew, a stir fry? were the potatoes mashed, fried, boiled, ...? 

the desserts were even more confusing: "chocolate, lemon, nougat, raspberry" - was that cake, ice-cream, mousse, raw ingredients? were they all in one, all separate or a mixture? 

sometimes, the waiters couldn't actually remember what the end product was, meaning they had to go to the kitchen and find out!