Originally Posted by
beardy
With regard to ordering food in restaurants in the USA, we had crew competitions to see who could complete the order and avoid any of the long list of supplementary questions ( eg what sort of dressing would you like on that?)
There were times when even "I'll have what he's having" didn't work
There was a similar competition running at the Burger King on Aviano Air Force Base in the 1990s. One chap thought that he had it licked and went into his five minute order only to be asked "Do you want to pay in Dollars or Lira?"