Cant sort posts with custom query

Nothing will sort using any of the following code, I have tried many other options as well, but these are examples directly from WP, so they should be working… If I change numberposts, it works, but not sort by any option (title, id or ASC, DESC)…

I am using mostly the second code block below… Any thoughts or similar problems?

<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 3, 'order'=> 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'title' );
$postslist = get_posts( $args );
foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); ?>
	<div>
		<?php the_date(); ?>
		<br />
		<?php the_title(); ?>
		<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
	</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

or

$loop = new WP_Query('category_name=food-specials&orderby=id&order=DESC');
 	while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();