Inverting the problem described in the OP:
“Large black coffee, no sugar”
“Milk?”
(then they still stick sugar packets in my bag. maybe they think I’m gonna change my mind?)
I’d be tempted to cut them some slack on that one since you specified “no sugar” in your “black” coffee. At least where I come from, black coffee means nothing in it.
In a condiments hijack, whenever I ask for salt at a drive-thru, they always throw in about 10 packets. What am I going to do with that much salt - make a deer lick??? Or iperhaps it’s attempted murder via hyper-tension…
Maybe she was new? I’ve never worked in a coffee shop, but 'round here, a double double is a burger, not a coffee.
Where I come from before ending up up here on this strange island, that’s what black coffee meant to me too, and to everyone I ordered it from.
In New York, black coffee is at least as likely as not to have sugar in it. Because it’s still “black”, the sugar didn’t lighten it none.
NO ONE orders “coffee with cream and sugar”. They just say “coffee” or “coffee regular”.
And “light and sweet” doesn’t mean “put cream and sugar in it”. It means "put a ludicrous amount of cream and sugar in it because it wouda had cream and sugar in it already before you asked me to make it ‘light and sweet’ "
“Coffee, plain” doesn’t do it either. I’ve ordered that and gotten coffee with milk and sugar. I guess the absence of kumquats and asparagus tips makes it “plain”.
It’s highly irritating, but I feel like a total asshole saying “Coffee, without milk, and without sugar, that is to say just the coffee, black, no sugar, coffee with nothing in it, except the coffee, just the coffee, in a cup by itself with nothing else added to it, please”
Hey! No telling stories twice. 
And what *exactly * are you going to make the deer lick?
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And then you destroy the Powerpuff Girls, right?
In all fairness to service industry drones everywhere, it’s possible that some have been burned in the past when assuming an otherwise obvious order. I’m picturing something like this:
Jerk: Plain cheeseburger, please.
Drone: Coming right up!
. . . minutes later . . .
Jerk: Hey, what the hell! There’s nothing on my cheeseburger but meat and cheese!
Drone: But I thought you wanted it plain . . . ?
Jerk: I meant no lettuce or tomatoes – Jeez Louise, who the hell serves a cheesburger without mayo! What kind of place are you running here?
I once heard this:
Customer: What’s the soupe du jour?
Waitress: The soupe du jour of the day is vegetable beef.
I’ve had to gasp QUIT COFFEE but when I was drinking it, I drank it black only. I always ordered it “black, no sugar” because more often than not, ordering it black got me no cream, but sugar. It’s definitely some weird variation though that varies from person to person and shop to shop because I worked at 2 different places that served a lot of coffee back in high school, and people would ask for it black and get pissy with me when I didn’t put sugar in it. I can’t even say it’s a regional thing really because it varies so wildly!
I always hated this:
Customer: “I’d like a large pepperoni pizza”
Me: “Okay, would you like anything else?”
Customer: “I want hamburger, bacon, and green peppers on that.”
Um, wouldn’t you just say you want a pepperoni, hamburger, bacon and green pepper pizza? Ordering a “pepperoni pizza” means you want a pizza with just pepperoni on it. It’s not that big of a deal, but it was annoying when you had to go back and edit their order.
Of course, there was that show on Oprah where they were talking about serial killers. After a detective talked about how the victims were killed and dressed like a deer, the psychiatrist said he didn’t know why the killer would dress his victims like deers and that maybe he was equating his victims with Bambi. :eek:
That’s funny!
Last night I shot a bear in my pajamas…
My son does not like ground beef. He now generally gets chicken when we do fast food, but for a while, he ate “cheeseburgers, no meat,” meaning that they should include the bun, cheese, mustard, ketchup, pickle, and onions (all of which he liked), but leave off the meat.
This is not the same as a “plain cheeseburger,” which includes the meat and cheese, with no mustard, ketchup, pickle, or onion. More than half the time I ordered “cheeseburger, no meat,” I got a plain cheeseburger with meat, so I always checked before leaving the drive-through or counter, just to be on the safe side. When there was meat, I asked them what they really thought “no meat” meant when I placed the order, in the hopes that they could tell me what the “real” jargon should be for what I wanted to order. Every time I asked, they said I ordered it correctly, it just got re-interpreted before it got to the grill.
yeah, that’s a common order for In and Out Burger. Double meat double cheese.
I’ll share. After all, it’s Friday. If I can’t hijack a thread what kind of day would it be?
Note, this is for a bread machine. Modify as needed for baking it in an oven.
Herb Bread
3 Tablespoons butter or margarine
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 cup milk
3 cups bread flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp dried dill
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/2 tsp dried rosemary
1 1/2 tsp active dry yeast
Melt butter over low heat. Add the onions and saute for 8-10 minutes until onion is soft but not brown. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes before putting it in the bread machine.
Add ingredients as directed by your bread machine instructions (mine are to put liquid in first, then dry ingredients, then create a small well for the yeast, which is last.) Cook on Light Crust Setting.
You can mix and match the herbs as needed. It makes wonderful croutons too.
TV Report on a middle eastern country, with the point of showing how they accept parts of American Culture, while hating “America” (whatever that meant to them)
Camera shows as an example a 20-something young man wearing a shirt that says:
UCLA University
My sister is a vegetarian. One of her favourite after-work snacks in a BigMac, no meat. It is, apparently, very difficult to get the night shift McD workers to understand this. Apparently she has had long conversations with them about the nature of “meat” and what it meant to have none in her BigMac. Really, though, if they’d just give her a bucket full of the secret sauce, she’d be happy.
Well, they might mean, “Would you like another pizza, or something to drink, or any items on our menu in addition to your pepperoni pizza?”
Me too. I’m not a vegetarian, though - I order mine with no lettuce, extra sauce, cheese, pickles and onions. And the beef. Not extra meat or anything, just with the meat.