34 of the Strangest Meals People Have Ordered

‘Three tacos with nothing but white rice’
34 of the Strangest Meals People Have Ordered

We’ve all had meals we’d prefer were never exposed to the light of day. Horrible moments of weakness both physical and emotional, where we wish the memories could have been stuffed into the trash can along with the spent Diablo sauce packets. Culinary pariahs that would have Gollum looking at you, disgusted, over a half-finished fish carcass.

Which is all fine. It’s your stomach, your time, your money. Some weirdos, however, decide to make these sorts of meals everybody’s problem by ordering them at a restaurant. Service workers on Reddit shared some of the most insane orders they’ve ever taken and fulfilled, and those dismaying details are collected below. 

At least some of them seem to be good tippers as penance.

 9y ago | worked in Applebees in high school and although not very strange I had a table where after I delivered the food I did the everything all good check up and noticed a woman was staring at her plate like it was about to jump off the table. I asked her what was wrong and she told me the plate color was just too off and that she needed an orange plate. I went back and got a different color plate and you could see the instant relief on her face when the food moved plates. I
Bambooteacup 9y ago I remember when I was waiting tables many years ago these two guys came in and ordered the entire breakfast menu, multiple orders of several things- they spent most of the morning (from about 8:30 am to about 12 noon) at the restaurant eating it all. It was something like a large order of pancakes each (those things were huge too, about 3/4 very big pancakes) with eggs (several of them cooked several ways) and omelette and bacon and mushrooms and waffles (also huge) and sausages and french toast and regular toast and homefries and a few
Logic_Nom 9y ago Working as a bartender on weekends I get my fair share of odd orders, but I'll make your drink however you want it because I don't really care. You want Scotch and cranberry? Sure thing! White Russian with no Kahlua...ok that's not a white Russian anymore but you got it! Vodka Margarita...So do you want that instead of tequila? She told me that tequila doesn't go in a margarita and if I were a better bartender I would have already known that.... L()/) Yeah people are stupid!
Weasel_Cannon 9y ago I worked at Ihop. Took a table's order and get to the wife. She ordered a meal and I ask her how she'd like her eggs. She replies unfertilized. Having heard this joke from drunken men before, I brushed it off and chuckled, but she was serious. She said  you know when you crack the egg, and you see that little white bit stuck to the yolk? That's the sperm, and I don't want it in my eggs. Still dead serious. I glance at the husband looking for answers and he just shrugs his shoulders and
jack2873 . 9y ago Isn't strange, but anytime they ask for a hot plate, I get shit on cause the chefs will always go, 'oh they want a HOT plate do they now?' And I'm always the fucker that has to take out the plate that's been cooked in the depths of Mordor
NoAstronomer 9y ago Edited 9y ago Also not a waiter, but I was picking up my (normal) pizza when a woman came in and ordered a white pie (i.e. no sauce) with no cheese and garlic. So, the guy behind the counter says,, round garlic bread? Yes
panascope . 9y ago I haven't waited tables in nearly 10 years but the weirdest order I got was from a guy who wanted a steak so well done that no juice would come out of it. Took like a half hour to grill it up that way and, surprise surprise, it was really bad. It looked like I was giving him the sole of a shoe.
Fischera1982 9y ago Not me but another server I was working with at the time. Two women ordered a bloomin onion. After it was delivered he went over to see how everything was. The lady asked for a cup of the sauce at the bottom of the plate. Ma'am that is actually fryer grease not a sauce. She looked at him and said I don't care what it is just get me a cup of it. Не went to the back, ladled out a soup cup of fryer grease, and brought it out. The woman seasoned the grease with salt
GetOutTheWayBanana 9y ago I work in a fancy restaurant, so I don't get a lot of super weird, but what's annoying and weird to me is coming to a restaurant that's around $50/person and ordering water with LOTS of lemons and some sugar packets and then attempting to make your own lemonade there at the table to save two bucks. Either just drink water or just order a drink!
. 9y ago A less than quarter strength extra hot cappuccino with 3 sugars...
DylanDr 9y ago Edited 9y ago Not exactly, but I used to work food service in an Indian takeaway. The number of people who'd call up and seemed to just order whatever the hell they wanted as if they'd never even looked at the menu. Uhh can I get a bag of chips?  Sorry sir we don't have chips here we serve Indian food Oh right so... like... what's the Indian version of chips? ...Poppadoms. One guy called and tried to order a pizza. I assumed he had gotten the wrong number and told him we were an Indian
PM_ME_2DISAGREEWITHU 9y ago Kid would come in with his mom once a week and order a no meat cheeseburger. The first time was weird. So we brought him a bun with cheese and lettuce tomato mayo and onion. Не sent it back. Saying he didn't want any of the other stuff on it. Just the cheese and the bun. Не wouldn't call it a grilled cheese for some reason. So the next week he comes in and gets a different server. I happened to be next to the POS when she put the order in so the kid was spared
ChBoler . 9y ago Not an order, but I got written up once because a lady wanted a box for 3 fries and | thought she was joking. She wasn't.
YourHumbleCashier . 9y ago . Edited 9y ago Not me, but a friend of mine said that a customer once wanted to order a steak that was medium rare with no pink in the middle. The customer was dead serious.
Chokeuponthebat 9y ago Edited 9y ago I feel like sometimes people are misinformed at bars as well. I was behind the bar and some lady was like I want a Ketel One chilled but no Ice, not too dirty, olives on the side and the Ketel in a cold glass. I figured she wanted a martini and didnt know what vermouth was, So I was like A dirty martini? Light on the brine? She's like Did you hear what I said?! I just made it really dry and light on the brine. She loved it, Isnt my way better than
kycrane 9y ago I worked at a small town diner place last summer. This guy came in every single day for lunch, and would order a plate of 13 french fries. If there were any more or any less, he would politely send it back for us to fix it. One time, he noticed a fry that was really small and sent it back because we gave him 12 and a half fries instead of 13. We would get annoyed by him, but he was a really good tipper so we dealt with it.
sweetrhymepurereason 9y ago A man once ordered a bowl of tomato soup and a Bloody Mary, simultaneously. Не wanted me to wait to bring out the Bloody Mary so he could have it at the same time as the soup. Не alternated one sip of the drink and one slurp of the soup until both were gone.
Ftw dabs69ish 9y ago I was a waitress at Red Lobster in Southern California. This older German lady would come in regularly and pick a lobster out of the tank. She would demand it gets boiled alive and whole, DO NOT GUT IT OR CLEAN it and bring it to her. She would eat the intestines and all the shit youre legally supposed to clean out of the lobster before serving it. We always accommodated her, and her Pomeranian who sat at the table with her.
Thisgetsnaughty . 9y ago Worked in a restaurant years ago and every Friday night after the bar this guy would order spaghetti bolognese and would cover the whole thing with French's yellow mustard.
Bmac1977 9y ago Not a waiter, but years ago I was in Denny's with my dad in Niagara Falls. (I went to college at Niagara University) It was, of course, full or tourists. There was a middle eastern family that spoke only broken English at best that came in and took issue with a whole lot of the menu. After what seemed like 30 minutes of looking through the menu and haltingly trying to figure out what half the menu meant, the waiter suggested that he would have the cook prepare a vegetarian plate. To his and the chef's credit,
OscarlsGarb 9y ago I'm not a waiter, but during my time as a host at the wonderful establishment known as red lobster, a man would come in every Tuesday around 7 and order linguine Alfredo. This would be totally normal, but he ordered it without noodles or shrimp. He'd happily sip away at a bowl of heavy, garlicy cream for a couple of hours while reading some Tom Clancy book before giving the waiter/waitress a large tip and leaving. I talked to him a few times, and he was as normal as could be. Cool guy.
ZeusHatesTrees 9y ago I was a cook at the time, not a server, but since I'm the one actually making the whacky orders I can give some of my favorites: They want fish, but not the fish special, but they like how the fish special looks so they want you to make it look like the fish special - -Request granted. They want you to cut their hamburger is sixths, They were very specific not fourths or eighths. I inquire if they're sharing it six ways, server said no, this is just for her. ---Granted, but cutting 1/6ths is harder than
ya_maybe_tomorrow 9y ago During the Sturgis motorcycle rally | worked at a cafe. Had a man visiting from Russia come in and order a sandwich consisting of butter and crushed potato chips. I was so confused. I thought I misunderstood him due to his thick accent but, поре, he wanted a butter potato chip sandwich.
 9y ago We had a dish that has a corn chip base, chicken breast with ranch sauce and cheese melted over the whole thing. And a side of mexi-rice. Someone came in with their jaw wired shut and asked me to blender the whole plate and bring him a large gauge enough straw to consume. It took several extra ounces of the ranch sauce to make it blend. Не said it was the best thing he'd had to eat since the accident :)
 . 9y ago 3 grilled tomatoes, 2 grilled jalapenos, oil, garlic powder, and one of the metal salad mixing bowls we have in the kitchen.
roonerspize . 9y ago Dry white toast, four fried chickens and a coke.
 9y ago Oh boy oh boy I've waited for this one: Was a server at Crackerbarrel in Tennessee for about 2 years... this Crackerbarrel was right of the interstate so the majority of our customers were travelers but we had a couple regulars. This one old lady would come in every Wednesday and Sunday at exactly 2pm and would order a fried chicken salad. But for the dressing she would request two large bowls of piping hot white gravy and grits.... she'd then proceed to mix the grits and gravy into the salad and eat the entire thing. She
kcjg8 . 9y ago I work at a pizza place that has a bar. One day a really drunk guy asked for a spaghetti and meatballs inside a calzone. My friend got super excited to make it since it was at least original. The drunk guy saw how excited he was making it and came behind the bar into the kitchen and tipped my buddy 20 dollars. Не ended up taking one bite of his spaghetti calzone and leaving.
window_licking_sob .9y ago A grilled cheese with no bread.
Squanchingsquanchy .  9y ago I am a waiter in a sports bar in Nebraska. A lot of weird requests roll through that place, but one has always stuck out. A lady once ordered a BLT without the lettuce or tomato, but instead with butter and extra mayo. She ordered a lard and grease sandwich.
nonrefundabled . 9y ago I'd like the soup du jour.  Excuse me, I've had soup du jour before, and this is NOT soup du jour.
morebagels . 9y ago not a waiter, but one time the person in front of me in line at chipotle ordered 3 tacos with nothing but white rice
thethingofcreepy.9y= ago Yesterday a man ordered a pint of Bleu cheese salad dressing. | think he lost a bet
Chokeuponthebat 9y ago Edited 9y ago Ive worked in restaurants for 6+ years from diners to bars to steakhouses. Once woman asked me to make her egg sandwich as greasy as possible then was mad it wasnt leaking grease. I love a THEC as much as the next guy but that was gross. This woman ordered a Filet Mignon well done (already weird but not uncommon), then sent it back when it literally looked like a hockey puck that can be used at MSG. The one person complained her salad was cold, and my manager was like, She wants a

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