I always ask for sauce on the side at real BBQ places. While this may not be so weird in barbecue friendly towns, it often garners raised eyebrows in Chicago. One place, the I-57 Rib Shack, simply told me they don’t do sauce on the side, and I was forced to have sauce on my ribs. Why this is, I can’t even fathom. It doesn’t seem like they hold their ribs in sauce, and they’re certainly smoked the way real BBQ ribs are. Whatever. I just don’t go there anymore since they can’t give me the product I want, the way I want it.
Yeah, hold it between their legs 
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Only when they don’t put oil on it.
…which is what you ask them to do. So I guess maybe the better worded question is “do you really like eating bland, plain pasta that is stuck together?” (and my own: “and if so… why?”)
Since it’s my OP I should contribute. A few time, when they’re not busy, I’ve gone to McDonalds and ordered the Big and Tasty with special sauce instead of ketchup and mayo.
I can’t digest black pepper without a lot of difficulty, so I have to grill the server about what seasonings are on any dish. Right now it seems that the food community is having a love affair with pepper, and the spice is put into EVERYTHING, including cookies and hot chocolate.
I’ll also request a couple of lemon wedges with some meals. I like the taste of lemon with many things, and I will, for instance, squirt a bit of lemon on my beef steak.
I’m not really a picky orderer, but years ago a coworker taught me the joy of adding Tabasco to ketchup for french fries; whenever I’m going to have fries at a non-fast-food restaurant, I always make sure to get some Tabasco. That’s about as picky as I get, I think.
Daniel
Wow, yeah that’s a pretty odd special request, all right! :eek:
I don’t drink coffee either and usually order a Coke or even better, a Mountain Dew with breakfast. That gets some strange looks but not usually a problem.
Iced tea for me for breakfast. Usually the waitress doesn’t bat an eye.
Jack Nicholson and the waitress…from ‘5 Easy Pieces’.
http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/tj5-23-05.html
Too funny. 
What effect is he going for with the hot spoon and why should I be impressed?
Nothing REAL special.
I sometimes order beer for “breakfast.” Coworkers and I hit Shari’s or something after getting off work at 7AM and we’d have a drink before going home to sleep, but it definately takes employees by supprise on occation.
Only other strange request is when I go to Taco Del Mar. Always request that your meat be “well drained.” They use hot water to keep their meat warm and this often turns the last half of your burrito into a soupy mixture. It’s harder than hell to eat.
I ask for onions in my hash browns. But I’m not so sure this is an odd special request.
When we make fried potatoes at home, we generally slice up an onion and fry it up with the taters. Man that’s good.
When I order a cheeseburger, I usually ask that they NOT put the cheese slice on the burger while it’s on the grill-but put it on afterwards when they’re putting the sandwich together. Don’t ask me why, I just like it better that way.
This is not really an odd request, but we used to have a bit of fun when our son was younger, when we went to “fine” restaurants. The boy was a bit of a picky eater, and just about the only thing that we knew would be acceptable was spaghetti with tomato (or meat) sauce.
This works fine at most places, but a lot of higher-end establishments don’t have “pasta and sauce” on the menu. We never had a problem; we would just ask for “some kind of pasta, with a tomato-based sauce on it, please”. We always got an acceptable dish; never just a plain bowl of noodles with plain sauce, and sometimes it was obvious that the chef really went overboard to create something special.
Everytime I have fried catfish, will ask / pay extra for a nice slice of raw onion. Everytime.
Also want a sliced lemon and goodly amount of tartar sauce, but that’s not nec odd or special methinks, or at least shouldn’t be.
I don’t think it qualifies as odd if it’s on the menu at such exotic culinary establishments as Waffle House 
I won’t sit at a booth, and have once left a restaurant because all they had were booths.
I don’t like them because I’m short, and I feel like I can’t reach my food without sitting on the edge of the seat.