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Diner Lingo?

salsalady

Business Member
Cruising through some other threads looking for some classic comfort food inspirations, and it got me to thinking of the lingo back int he day, when phone calls had to be made by spinning a dial....of some of the classic diner lingo...
 
 
What do you know of?  Share it!
 
SOS = Sheit on a Shingle = chipped beef gravy on toast.  Chipped beef is a whole other topic worthy of much discussion and appreciation.
 
my grandpa was career Navy.  This was one dish I remember from him.  And there was something about Ham and white beans (navy beans) every Wednesday.~  John's dad was HMSRM and he ate chocolate bar sandwiches.   Yep, a chocolate bar with bread. 
 
B&G- biscuits and gravy= buttermilk biscuits and white or white sausage gravy
 
Adam and Eve on a raft= poached eggs on toast
 
Beanies and Wienies- baked beans and hot dogs  this was the Saturday daily special every saturday at the little cafe I worked at way back in the day...like the jurassic era....:lol:
 
Fry2-  short for 2 eggs, hashbrowns and toast
 
1 high
short stack
full stack
(pancake lingo~)
 
something about 'put some shoes on it' = To Go...
 
What do you remember? or still use? 
 
 
TB better be posting up a whole dictionary in here~  ;)  <3
 
 
 
He wants a hockey puck & make it cry with no rabbit food on whiskey down and a small moo juice.  And put wheels on it.
 
(well done burger with onions, no lettuce {tb!} on rye toast with a small milk to go.)
 
Muchas gracias SL.
 
Ticket 4"on the rail"....get it out NOW! (also on the fly)
 
86....kill it.
 
86'd....you're not welcome at this establishment.
 
Too many too list..
 
90 percent of mine have been in other languages.
 
Mexican. "de wolada!" right fucking now!
 
The Greek and Italian stuff is just too nasty to quote.
 
 
I'll get back to y'all on this.....
 
 
SOS - reminded me of this.   :rofl:
 
Cooking Poo.jpg
 
we are NOT talking about extracting leftover capsaicin from excrement!  :lol:  Some know what that topic is about~~~~
 
Here's a vid that shows the classic SOS of what I remember-  The first diner I worked at made SOS occasionally as a daily special, and i also made it a few times in the cafe.
 
 
TAPIOCA!  Very good!  and again, the cafe I worked at made baked custards and bread pudding from scratch. 
 
Florence Axelson made the baked goods and at the Christmas party made a killer eggnog...pretty sure it was only for 21+ but I still got some (at ~15)
 
salsalady said:
Florence Axelson made the baked goods and at the Christmas party made a killer eggnog...pretty sure it was only for 21+ but I still got some (at ~15)
 
Wait. Your diner had a real life Flo? How cool is that!
 
flo_alice.jpg
 
Pigs in a blanket 
 
And heck with the plain old swanson tv dinner supersize it to the Hungy Man Dinner- Mean Joe Green was the company spokesman :)
 
Oh and lets not forget " Hippy Food ". 
 
Modern day vegan, vegetarian meet the Hippy. These hippy's are your ancestors rofl.................
 
now burn a big fatty and eat some meat  :)
 
who remembers " Twiggy " ?  5'7"  92lbs   :shh:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SbQrNtMFeI
 
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