02/09/2026
The Omelette Situation ♥️♥️♥️
Back in the 80s, when my dad was the chef at The Cups, we had omelettes on the menu.
Four of them.
Cheese.
Ham.
Prawns.
Tomato.
Not a long list or confusing.
Now my dad was a proper old-school chef. Brilliant at what he did. But he was also a bit of an old-school shouty chef and, if I’m honest, could be slightly scary when you had to go into his kitchen and ask for something he didn’t agree with.
And once something was on the menu, that was it.
Set in stone.
If you wanted a cheese omelette, perfect.
Ham, no problem.
Prawns, absolutely.
Tomato, of course.
But if you asked for a combination…
That’s where things took a turn.
Customers, quite reasonably, didn’t see the problem.
“Could I have ham and cheese?”
Of course you could.
We had ham.
We had cheese.
We had eggs.
But I knew exactly what would happen if I walked into that kitchen and asked my dad to put the ham and the cheese in the same omelette.
It wouldn’t be an omelette anymore.
It would be a dangerous situation.
So I came up with my own solution.
I’d smile sweetly and say,
“I’m so sorry, we don’t have those ingredients today.”
Which was, of course nonsense.
We had all of them.
I just wasn’t brave enough to ask my dad to put two of them together.
The customer would nod, slightly disappointed, choose something else and I’d avoid a full-scale domestic over eggs.
Looking back now, it makes me laugh.
These days it’s all “no problem, we can do anything”.
Back then, at The Cups, you could have whatever you liked…
As long as it was exactly what was written on the menu. ♥️♥️♥️
