Washerwoman Mugs

Reduced circumstances of Mr. Mantalini

"Do you mind, Mrs Trimble! I'm about to conduct a christening!"

A Pan Anglican Washing Day

"How can you be out of wings?"

"Waitress, have you smoked salmon..?"

"Stephen and I are today's special."

"I'd like the garden salad with the blue cheese dressing, and my mother would like me married by age thirty."

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

'We have 800 beers on tap. If you want to hear all of them, you'll have to get here earlier, we close in six hours.'

"Even the waiters here are organic."

'You complimented the chef on his dumplings -now he wishes to return the compliments!'

'‘Because I said so' or ‘Just wait until you have kids of your own' section?'

'If this is tea, I'll have a coffee. If it's a coffee, I'll have a tea!'

'My diet's good...I'm two weeks ahead of schedule.'

"Everything on our menu uses organic, locally sourced, graveyard-to-table ingredients."

"You say your crème needs more Brulée?"

"Yes I know, and you dropped sauce on your shirt."

'We don't 'skimp' on the pour, sir; we're just generous with the glass.'

'I'll have you know sir, that we used the finest columbian coffee beans in that dishwater.'

"Something's wrong with the broccoli. Please take it back to the kitchen and have it genetically modified."

"When portions are this huge, I eat half now and the rest in a few minutes."

'Take of the fruit and eat . . . Well, peanuts actually.'

"All of tonight's specials dance around the whole GMO thing."

Next time, a larger tip for the server and less free tax advice.

'and on the Kids' Menu, we have Cranky Pants French Toast...'

"Garbage in, garbage out!"

'Would you like you steak WITH or WITHOUT a capella?'

Countervailing Clichés.

Waitress to church leader: 'It's your daily bread, Pastor. Remember? You ordered the prayer breakfast.'

'You shouldn't knock them back so quickly.'

'Who gets the decaf?'

"Sorry, that's not my table."

'For a small extra charge, we can provide a specially-formulated digestive enzyme.'

Optical Illusion Supply Company.

'Do you want me to get the fish bone out, or not?'