# Anybody else seen 'egg surcharges'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896 "2025-02-05T00:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/21 "2025-02-05T19:00:38Z")
I’ve only been to a Waffle House once, but, yeah, those hash browns and their coded way of ordering them is perhaps the thing they are best known for. Oh, and the stereotype of the toughness/seediness of the staff and the prospect of random fights breaking out at any moment. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/22 "2025-02-05T19:07:54Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’ve only been to a Waffle House once… So, you’ve only seen 2 fights there? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/23 "2025-02-05T19:23:31Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Oh, and the stereotype of the toughness/seediness of the staff and the prospect of random fights breaking out at any moment. Definitely, and my own personal favorite Waffle House story: Back in my college days, I went with some friends to a Raleigh Waffle House after a late-night Rocky Horror showing. Our waitress was this little old granny lady, twinkly-eyed and round and a southern honey-dripping delight. We all went around and placed our orders. I ordered a slice of pie. “Oh, I love it when someone orders pie!” she said, and then leaned forward. “_It means I get to lick the knife!_” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/24 "2025-02-05T19:29:10Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’ve only been to a Waffle House once And never again. We asked for butter for our waffles and were basically told: Why the F would you wan’t butter for your waffles?! We ain’t got none. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/25 "2025-02-05T19:49:04Z")
Waffle House is a patty melt and hash browns destination as far as I’m concerned and I’ll take them howevery you say it for onions and jalapenos. We don’t have them around here so it’s a fun little bonus meal to look forward to when I’m away. Predicatable, unpretentious, inexpensive, hot sauce already on the table, sturdy plastic glasses and porcelain mugs for beverages. I really like the manageable portion sizes. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/26 "2025-02-05T21:01:59Z")
They have damm good coffee too. Twin Peaks worthy. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/27 "2025-02-06T02:52:29Z")
A type of crime I haven’t heard of before: > **[The heist of 100,000 eggs in Pennsylvania becomes a whodunit that police have...](https://apnews.com/article/eggs-stolen-pennsylvania-100000-c1c260ca05b9f84612c61071cb504939)** > > The heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/28 "2025-02-06T03:34:50Z")
At the rate of egg cost escalation, they could be millionaires if they sit on them for a week or two. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/29 "2025-02-06T04:00:09Z")
Poached eggs. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/30 "2025-02-06T05:42:00Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > Do the places you go not serve **waffles** or **French toast** or anything other than eggs My bolding: Eggs are a main ingredient in waffles and french toast. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/31 "2025-02-06T06:47:44Z")
so WH is charging extra for eggs, does that include the eggs in their waffles? :-0 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/32 "2025-02-06T09:33:44Z")
I can eat fifty eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/33 "2025-02-06T10:19:07Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I can eat fifty eggs Easy there, Gaston. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/34 "2025-02-06T13:49:15Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > A type of crime I haven’t heard of before: I expect the police will make the usual hash of it, and end up with egg on their faces before this is over. Meanwhile the crooks will toast their success. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/35 "2025-02-06T13:51:15Z")
Right, which is why I said > [@doreen](#): > > Do the places you go not serve waffles or French toast or anything other than eggs or **do waffles/pancakes also make you sick** My bold. “Cannot eat eggs” and eggs make me sick might be referring to allergies, in which case the person wouldn’t be able to eat pancakes or waffles or French toast either. Or it might be a taste/texture thing , where the person can eat items containing eggs just not eggs on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/36 "2025-02-06T13:54:18Z")
Exactly. I vividly remember my dad bent over the toilet puking his guts out because he ate a cookie made with eggs. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/37 "2025-02-06T14:02:24Z")
I don’t even get the reference, convincingly demonstrating that we have some sort of failure to communicate. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896/38 "2025-02-06T14:11:32Z")
You _almost_ whooshed me there. Well played! 👏 👏 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896.md?page=1)