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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (147651)	7/2/2007 1:19:01 PM
From: Ken Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I find myself ordering a la carte more and more often, especially at breakfast. The Village Inn has always had what they call a 1-2-3. It's not on the menu and you have to ask if they still do it. It's one egg, two strips of bacon (or sausage links) and three "dollar" size pancakes. These are usually not more than about 3 inches in diameter. Cost's about $2.99 and it's plenty of food. Often, after church, several of us go for breakfast nearby. I order the pancake with bacon. It's a single 10 inch pancake, which I eat the center 6 inches of and 3 strips of bacon. The pancake has something added to the dough that makes it just delicious without syrup. I spread a little butter over the center and have at it.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (147651)	7/2/2007 1:32:21 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I remember a place in town I used to breakfast at periodically that had a 2.99 breakfast special that was 2 eggs, 4 sausage links, 2 dinner plate sized pancakes, and a mountain of hashbrowns. Obscene amount of food. One morning I asked the gal for the breakfast special but I only wanted 1 pancake and half an order of hashbrowns. Her response? That isn't the breakfast special, you are ordering ala carte. My response was then give me the special but bring 2 plates. She did and I said hold up a minute and scraped off about 3/4 of the hasbrowns and threw one of the pancakes on top and said throw that away because I don't even want to look at that much food on my plate. That brings to mind the scene from Five Easy Pieces: The movie's most famous scene takes place in a roadside restaurant (a Denny's, just south of Eugene, Oregon), where Bobby tries to get a waitress (Lorna Thayer) to bring him toast with his breakfast, which is not on the menu. Despite appeals to logic and common sense, the waitress adamantly sticks to the rules of the restaurant, so Bobby comes up with a plan of his own: Bobby: I'd like a plain omelet. No potatoes, tomatoes instead. A cup of coffee and wheat toast. Waitress: No substitutions. Bobby: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes? Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two — a plain omelet. It comes with cottage fries, and rolls. Bobby: Yea, I know what it comes with, but it's not what I want. Waitress: Well I'll come back when you make up your mind. Bobby: Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelet, no potatoes on the plate. A cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast. Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast. I'll give you a English muffin or a coffee roll. Bobby: What do you mean "you don't make side orders of toast"? You make sandwiches, don't you? Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager? Bobby: You've got bread. And a toaster of some kind? Waitress: I don't make the rules. Bobby: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee. Waitress: A number two, chicken sal san. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else? Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules. Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh? Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.