A woman went into a restaurant and ordered the breakfast special, "I want my pancakes well done," she said. "You need to cook them all the way through and golden brown on both sides. Use the light syrup because the regular syrup is too sweet. Make the bacon crisp and thin, not oily or soggy and put it on a separate plate. The eggs must be over-easy, not broken or runny."

"And would you like butter or margarine?" asked the waitress.

The woman answered, "Oh, it doesn't matter; I'm not that picky." (1)

A guest in an expensive seaside-hotel breakfast room called room service one morning and placed a breakfast order: "I want two boiled eggs, one of them so undercooked it's runny, and the other so overcooked, it's about as easy to eat as rubber; also grilled bacon that has been left on the pl…