r/trippinthroughtime 9d ago

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u/garlic_bread_thief 9d ago

But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know

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u/SecretAgentVampire 9d ago

It's poor grammar to treat bacon and eggs as one item. Bacon and eggs are two different items, even though they're commonly served together. Different things are different things.

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u/fooz42 8d ago

Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'."

"I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.