Breakfast Score
This wheat allergy thing isn't all bad, you know.
This morning I arrived at the office to find myself famished, so I took advantage of the hot breakfast counter at the building cafe.
It can get tricky, in this day of combos and specials, where there are specific foods you're trying to avoid. Especially in the fast food world, I've encountered a couple of times where I've asked if I could have only the entree without the drink, or only the meat/vegetable without the bread, and received blank stares. "It just comes that way. I can't change it," has become one of the more infuriating phrases I run across during mealtimes.
So this morning, I had the choice of a bunch of a la care breakfast items (eggs, sausage, bacon, hash browns, etc) at more or less $1 apiece, or a egg+bacon/sausage+hashbrown+toast breakfast special for $4.25.
To order 3 or 4 items a la carte and risk getting it all messed up? Or to order the breakfast special without toast and risk getting the toast anyway, and paying $0.20 or so more than I would have paid separately?
For the sake of quick, easy ordering, I opted for the breakfast special route, with no toast.
"No toast?!?"
"No, thank you."
"Not even brown bread?" (whole wheat, for those of you south of the 49th)
"No."
"Or sourdough?"
"No, thanks. No toast, please."
A few minutes later, she had the breakfast assembled, and announced, "You know, I feel bad, you ordering the special, but missing out on the toast." (Apparently toast is a significant joy of life to her — life's little pleasures, I suppose.) "So, how about if I give you some extra sausage instead."
Immediately I'm thinking, toast on the a la carte menu, $0.60 a piece, or thereabouts, and sausage, $1.05 per link.
"Uh, sure." After which, she started piling on the bacon and sausage, with the result of giving me about 4x the "one piece of bacon or sausage" which I would have wound up with if we'd stuck to the menu letter by letter.
I thanked her again, and walked to the cash register, thinking, nice, that's going to be a big, filling breakfast for only $4.25.
"Breakfast special? That'll be $3.25 please."
Maybe this is breakfast karma.
This morning I arrived at the office to find myself famished, so I took advantage of the hot breakfast counter at the building cafe.
It can get tricky, in this day of combos and specials, where there are specific foods you're trying to avoid. Especially in the fast food world, I've encountered a couple of times where I've asked if I could have only the entree without the drink, or only the meat/vegetable without the bread, and received blank stares. "It just comes that way. I can't change it," has become one of the more infuriating phrases I run across during mealtimes.
So this morning, I had the choice of a bunch of a la care breakfast items (eggs, sausage, bacon, hash browns, etc) at more or less $1 apiece, or a egg+bacon/sausage+hashbrown+toast breakfast special for $4.25.
To order 3 or 4 items a la carte and risk getting it all messed up? Or to order the breakfast special without toast and risk getting the toast anyway, and paying $0.20 or so more than I would have paid separately?
For the sake of quick, easy ordering, I opted for the breakfast special route, with no toast.
"No toast?!?"
"No, thank you."
"Not even brown bread?" (whole wheat, for those of you south of the 49th)
"No."
"Or sourdough?"
"No, thanks. No toast, please."
A few minutes later, she had the breakfast assembled, and announced, "You know, I feel bad, you ordering the special, but missing out on the toast." (Apparently toast is a significant joy of life to her — life's little pleasures, I suppose.) "So, how about if I give you some extra sausage instead."
Immediately I'm thinking, toast on the a la carte menu, $0.60 a piece, or thereabouts, and sausage, $1.05 per link.
"Uh, sure." After which, she started piling on the bacon and sausage, with the result of giving me about 4x the "one piece of bacon or sausage" which I would have wound up with if we'd stuck to the menu letter by letter.
I thanked her again, and walked to the cash register, thinking, nice, that's going to be a big, filling breakfast for only $4.25.
"Breakfast special? That'll be $3.25 please."
Maybe this is breakfast karma.