"I watched the omelet chef go down every item at the station and add it in. Since then I’ve made the same order at countless omelet stations, and only had one cook ask for clarification."

The dining hall at Tempelhoff Central Airport in West Berlin when I was stationed there was excellent. Somehow everybody griped about it, but for an establishment that had to be prepared to feed several hundred people per meal, they did an astonishingly good job.

Every breakfast featured eggs to order, including omelets with a huge variety of fillers.

I was friends with one of the line cooks (um, that means I had an affair with one of the line cooks. Shhh!) and he told me when somebody asked for an omelette with everything, the cooks called it a garbage omelette.

I guess the term has been around for quite a long time, because this was in the 80s.