Such as ask for barbecue sauce with your scrambled eggs? And if so, do you do this often, or was it just a one time fit of culinary experimentation?
I like to ask for two glasses of water, because it’s free and most places have tiny cups.
I always ask for spicy brown/deli mustard with my eggs, and possibly hot sauce as well. I also like barbecue sauce, honey mustard, and ranch dressing with my fries more than ketchup, although as separate dips rather than mixed together. Ranch dressing is also great with pizza.
Since I’m a vegetarian, I never hesitate to ask for meat substitutes. Breakfast sandwich with egg cheese and your choice of pig meat. Can I have an extra egg and some tomato instead? Egg foo yung with your choice of meat served on a bed of stir fried rice with your choice of meat. Can I have that with only vegetables? This place has a dynamite sesame chicken. Can I get it with eggs and veggies?
Most places will make it without a fuss.
I almost always ask for my beverages without ice because my teeth are somewhat sensitive, the drinks are often cold enough without the ice, and the flavor is diluted as the ice melts whereas my mom orders her drinks with an extra glass of ice because she’s weird.
Taken seperately, I don’t know how odd they are (based on how often mine comes with ice anyway, I’d guess it’s not too common) but we’ve gotten slightly bemused looks a few times when eating together.
My dad and my brother are obsessive about ordering drinks without ice, even on hot days, even when ordering water that is essentially tap water. In steamy Miami, they get weird looks and double-takes all the time.
I don’t really have any strange requests. The only thing I do is ask for extra sour cream or cranberry sauce - if the meal calls for it.
Actually, I do ask if the cranberry sauce is lumpy. If it is, I ask them to not add any.
My best friend always gets mayo with her fries. Then, she mixes the mayo with ketchup. Ugh.
I once was at a table next to as guy who insisted that he have a hot spoon to pour his beer over as it went into his glass.
I think he was trying to impress his date, who was horribly embarrassed by the scene.
I always ask for no ice
I always ask for the salad dressing on the side
I ask for my pizza with no cheese
Unless it’s a place I know very very well, I usually try to get whatever’s already vegetarian. but I’ll grill the poor waitress about it “there’s no meat AT ALL in this? you’re sure? no bacon? no chicken broth? no anchovies?”
If it’s a place I know well, I’ll get creative… replace the pork with avocado, please, or just give me a bunch of steamed vegetables, no butter, and I’ll take it from there.
When I order salad dressing i ask for any 3 of the options.No matter which ones I get its more interesting that any one by itself. Just mix them and eat away.
Did your mom steal the ice out of your drinks when you were a kid? I wonder if that gave you your taste for no-ice. (In our family, things like white meat or dark meat skip a generation, because the parents give the kids the kind they don’t like!)
I’ll sometimes ask for mayo, along with ketchup, for french fries. I hadn’t done it in years, but it’s a fad at WhyKid’s school right now and he started asking for it when we were out, which reminded me how much I liked it.
I’ll always ask for water, no ice in a to go cup for WhyBaby, as she’s learning to drink through a straw.
I like both blue cheese and french dressing at once on my salads, so I’ll ask for both on the side to get the ratio right.
I’ll ask for lemon wedges if ordering cream o’ something soup. Learned years ago at crappy diners that it freshens mediocre soup.
I try not to make too many special requests at one meal, and I generally limit them to things the waitress does, not the kitchen. I find things get lost in translation or not written down clearly and kitchen requests often aren’t real reliable. Besides, I can tip the waitress extra for being a pain in the ass - I can’t easily tip the cook for making his life harder.
Not that I remember. I’ve just never liked ice in my drinks or really, really cold beverages and drink most everything at room temperature if given the option.
I’ll ask how big the water glasses are. If they’re under 20 oz, I ask for a pitcher of water, not just a glass. When the waiter argues that refills are free, I counter with “How busy are you? I drink a LOT of water.” (I’ve actually been cut off after 8 glasses of water.)
When ordering a ham and cheese omelette with hashbrowns, I’ll ask for Heinz 57 sauce.
In Utah, where I lived for eight years, every fast food place - national chains as well as local joints - serves a concoction known as “fry sauce.” It’s ketchup and mayo, mixed. Yes, it’s pink.
Not something I have ever done, but I see people sometimes order their pasta with the sauce on the side. Does anyone know what that’s about? Maybe they just want to minimise how much sauce they have, but wouldn’t it be easier to simply ask for less sauce than usual, or just not eat all the sauce.
I ask for Wocestershire sauce with my eggs, but that isn’t so much an odd request as an English request 
I like ice in my soda (I rarely drink soda, though) for exactly the same reason some of you dislike it. It dilutes the soda. I find soda way too syrupy, and the carbonation is painful. Watered down it is more refreshing and less carbonated. That’s a plus for me.
I order a lot of things without the meat, because I’m a vegetarian. I often order chimichangas at Mexican restaurants, and tell them “no meat inside, just beans please”. Most places do this no problem, but I’ve had waitstaff actually insist that it’s impossible. Not that the kitchen refuses, but that it cannot be done. They don’t seem to care when I tell them that not only have I had it at dozens and dozens of other Mexican restaurants, but that I cook it myself at home quite often. They insist that it won’t work.
Mozzarella cheese on my burgers – because that’s the greatest combination of anything anywhere.
No, no no…
everyone know’s you mix blue cheese with ITALIAN dressing! 
My wierd thing I got from my wife. When ordering sushi I always ask for a small dish of white vinegar, then mix it equal parts with the shoyu (soy sauce) for dippin’.
Apparently this is a regional thing in Japan (accarding to my wife at least).
I often order horseradish on the side with sandwiches. Gimme a breaded tenderloin with everything, and jalapeños on the side. Ever have a grilled-chicken chef’s salad with barbecue sauce instead of dressing? Try it sometime.
At a breakfast place, there’s always combination breakfasts on the menu. Sometimes, none of them are exactly what I want. So, I put down the menu, and I just order what I really want.
We had dinner at a nice place where the chef is a good friend of ours. I was trying to decide between caesar and house salads, and I just winged it. “Give me sliced tomatoes, sliced onion, crumbled blue cheese, and a viniagrette dressing.” No problem. The waitress was delighted to have somebody order off the cuff. Chef Dave told me later they were probably going to put it on the menu for a few weeks.
The only time anybody ever gave me any guff over odd orders was when I ordered a sliced raw potato. The waitret turned in the order, and I got it, but she told me I’d gone daft. 
I haven’t had it in a while, but when I order a hot fudge sundae, I always check to see if I can have it on orange sherbet instead of vanilla ice cream.