Subject: bug#32864: menus don't work in Mac OS: see similar issue 24472 and workaround there

From: Marc Herbert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 09:30:26 -0700

> So why does Emacs do this to begin with? Because the menu contents are generated dynamically from elisp code each time.
> ...
> IIRC the Emacs menu is different from the others as it’s not built from elisp, it’s hard‐coded.

See similar issue https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24472
and successful, one-line .emacs workaround there.