# This never made sense to me when eating breakfast at a diner
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 24, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755 "2016-09-24T19:42:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/1 "2016-09-24T19:42:00Z")
I will order a breakfast platter which can be eggs, homefries, bacon or sausage and will request toast or english muffin on the side. When the waitress brings me the food I notice the toast or english muffin is on top of the food instead on a small plate by itself.
I don’t understand why it on top of the food when they I will have to move it so I can work on the food that’s on the big plate. Or is this something that just annoys me when going out to eat breakfast?😕
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/2 "2016-09-24T20:35:07Z")
Just you.
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/3 "2016-09-24T20:37:37Z")
Just you, or just that particular diner’s oddness. I’ve never had it sitting on top of the other food, just on the edge of the plate where I prefer it to be. Don’t want a second plate taking up room I need for my book.
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/4 "2016-09-24T20:37:48Z")
The toast and the food under it are kept mutually warm by their proximity, instead of cooling.
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### Author:  [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/5 "2016-09-24T20:38:04Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Just you.
so where is your toast when you are eating the other food?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/6 "2016-09-24T20:39:58Z")
Odd diner, doesn’t happen here in the birthplace of diner. I’ve been to many dozens of diners and order breakfast mostly and never seen it served that way. Biscuits on the other hand do often get served on the same plate.
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### Author:  [@Snorri\_Thorfinnsson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snorri_Thorfinnsson)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/7 "2016-09-24T20:40:15Z")
Most of the places we go to have large enough plates to accomodate everything easily. Those that don’t usually give us a separate plate.
If I have pancakes with the meal I will usually will ask for a separate plate for them even if there is enough room - may sound picky but I don’t like syrup getting on my eggs and in my hashbrowns.
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### Author:  [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/8 "2016-09-24T20:52:22Z")
> [@Snorri\_Thorfinnsson](#):
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> Most of the places we go to have large enough plates to accomodate everything easily. Those that don’t usually give us a separate plate.
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> If I have pancakes with the meal I will usually will ask for a separate plate for them even if there is enough room - may sound picky but I don’t like syrup getting on my eggs and in my hashbrowns.
Well I normally don’t see toast if someone has pancakes, mainly with eggs and hashbrowns/bacon and sausage
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### Author:  [@Snorri\_Thorfinnsson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snorri_Thorfinnsson)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/9 "2016-09-24T20:56:55Z")
> [@cg16](#):
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> Well I normally don’t see toast if someone has pancakes, mainly with eggs and hashbrowns/bacon and sausage
Neither do I - just using it as an example of when I would ask for a separate plate for something.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/10 "2016-09-24T21:25:42Z")
I cooked in a diner for a few years, and we always put the toast on a separate plate, with one exception. We had, for a while, a waitress with one prosthetic arm (the “hook” type). We took to putting the toast on the main plate for her orders. It made things easier for her — she could carry four or five big plates of food at once with little trouble, but adding in the small side plates made things much more difficult for her — and the customers never complained about it.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/11 "2016-09-24T21:32:54Z")
Toast should be on a rack, not a side plate, let alone the main plate; fried bread does go on the main plate.
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### Author:  [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/12 "2016-09-25T00:48:29Z")
Seems obvious to me. Less dishes to wash.
I do the same thing at home.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/13 "2016-09-25T01:37:04Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Toast should be on a rack, not a side plate, let alone the main plate; fried bread does go on the main plate.
Fried bread?
😕
I don’t even want to know…
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/14 "2016-09-25T01:40:43Z")
> [@TBG](#):
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> Fried bread?
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> 😕
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> I don’t even want to know…
It’s [frybread.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frybread)
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/15 "2016-09-25T01:43:26Z")
> [@TBG](#):
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> Fried bread?
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> 😕
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> I don’t even want to know…
It’s exactly what it sounds like. Bread fried in butter, bacon grease, or some other fat. Part of a hearty British fry-up! (It is yummy. I don’t care if it kills me.)
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/16 "2016-09-25T01:45:01Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> It’s [frybread.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frybread)
No, it’s [fried bread](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_bread).
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/17 "2016-09-25T02:04:15Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> No, it’s [fried bread](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_bread).
That’s _English._
Question not [The Gaffigan.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCDgcZxA52I)
😃
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/18 "2016-09-25T09:45:34Z")
> [@TBG](#):
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> Fried bread?
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> 😕
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> I don’t even want to know…
Are you sure?
After cooking the bacon, sausages, mushrooms etc, there’s a good amount of fat left in the pan. So you use bread to soak it up.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/19 "2016-09-25T13:27:01Z")
The cafe I prefer to eat breakfast at puts the toast on a seperate plate!
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### Author:  [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-never-made-sense-to-me-when-eating-breakfast-at-a-diner/766755/20 "2016-09-25T19:54:38Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Toast should be on a rack, not a side plate, let alone the main plate; fried bread does go on the main plate.
Why in the name of all that is holy would you put toast on _a rack?_ Might as well just throw it straight in the garbage and at least save a little butter.
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