Shocking culinary tastes

For a couple of weeks now, there's been a middle aged Chinese woman filling in for the owner at our local Chinese take away. When she was serving me for the first time, I asked for my usual - Large chips and egg fried rice, no sauce. Apparently, the sauce is what qualifies this otherwise rather nondescript meal as being Chinese, and it was therefore quite inconceivable that I'd be in there ordering it plain. They make good chips. Sue me.

Anyway, the Chinese woman, a traditionalist, was so taken aback by my queer preferences that she temporarily lost her mathematical faculties, and was unable to calculate the cost of what I had ordered. There she stood over the till for a few moments in complete shock, until she collected her thoughts and could resume normal service.


Do you have any quirky tastes in food? So quirky that when people hear of them they react with exclamation marks?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I should totally turn the tables and walk in there, take a look at the menu and open my mouth agape, then just leave shaking my head.

There's nowhere I can't reach.