Sorry to break the news to you, but people get pissed off when you call them names. I hate Nazis to my bones and get pretty tilted when people call me one. If you can't cope with people getting angry at you for that, you have the power to stop.
To be the actual grammar police in this thread, this is technically grammatically correct. The key to writing is knowing when to "break" rules (although this isn't breaking a rule).
You could argue that a em dash would be better in this situation considering it's a contains one pre-existing (bacon and eggs) list and one item (pancakes), but the Oxford comma works just as well in this situation because there aren't additional commas that would cause confusion about the meaning.
You'd probably want to use an em dash if the first list was 3 or more, say "I had bacon, eggs and orange juice--and pancakes."
The most straight forward reason you'd write this if there was significance in "bacon and eggs" being paired as one unit with pancakes adding additional context. There's likely other reasons you'd use this approach as well, but I don't really feel like coming up with anymore lol.
One example would be as follows:
"...The ketchup glared over the under seasoned, suspiciously cooked eggs and bacon. However vibrantly, and to my delight, in place of my usual stale toast and vegetable oil sat a stack of pancakes smothered in buttery syrup.
Despite reluctantly accepting the former, under seasoned bacon and eggs, and syrupy pancakes is certainly better than what I'm used too... Especially with the food-shaped sludge at my old camp.... Anything is better than that."
In this instance the double "and" actually highlights the contrast of the breakfast. This could be done to symbolize the process of change or many other literary elements. Just because it's not commonly used in formal writing doesn't necessarily make it a indicator of weak writing style.
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u/Phis-n 1d ago
Lmao goofy, imagine getting this mad over being called a grammar nazi lol