I used to cook in a Little Chef
which is amazingly overpriced, but still. There were about 8 different fry ups on the menu, and all the old biddies would swap all the bits about until they were blue in the face. Wait staff introduced a rule you could only swap meat for meat, non meat for non meat to weed out all the cheeky fuckers thinking they were oh so clever.

If it was up to me I'd have no changes allowed, it is a royal pain in the bollocks when you know all the fry up combinations by heart but 80% of the orders are +beans -mushrooms -1 egg +tomato etc etc etc, have to keep looking at the pad. Not fun when you're trying to cook 30 fry ups at a time.

Consequently I only ever order standard fry ups in pubs, greasy spoons etc as I don't want to risk the 400% extra chance of it getting spat in. Not something I ever did, but I understand how frustrating it can be as a cook. There's about 50 things on the menu, can you not just order one of them?
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 12:44, Reply)