Adam & Eve on a raft & wreck 'em: two scrambled eggs on toastMany of these come from a column at Diner Talk.
Baled hay: shredded wheat cereal
Cops & Robbers: Donuts and Coffee.
Customer will take a chance: hash
Don't cry over it: omit the onions
Drag it through Wisconsin: serve with cheese (e.g. a cheeseburger)
Drown the kids: boiled eggs
Fish eyes or Cat's eyes: tapioca pudding
Foreign entanglements: spaghetti
Hockey puck: a hamburger, well done
Mother and child reunion: chicken and egg sandwich
Noah's boy: a slice of ham (Ham was Noah's second son)
Put a hat on it: add ice cream
Shit on a shingle/S.O.S.: minced dried beef with gravy on toast
Two cows, make them cry: Two hamburgers with onions
Zeppelins in a fog: sausages and mashed potatoes
27 January 2012
"Diner lingo"
Selections from an assemblage at Wikipedia:
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We would use "SOS" for creamed chipped beef. Maybe that's the same as minced dried beef with gravy, though.
ReplyDeleteTry ordering a grilled English muffin: "burn the British."
ReplyDeleteOops! I didn't bother checking the list first at Wikipedia. Is my face covered with egg.
ReplyDeleteThough not precisely from a diner, my brother heard a good one today. He went up to a burger stand and ordered a veggie burger with bacon. The cashier turned to the person at the grill: "One hypocrite." My brother said it was surprisingly tasty. I'm just curious how common a veggie-with-bacon is - must be reasonably so if it's acquired its own name by now.
ReplyDeleteThere was a kid's book...I need to google.
ReplyDelete...got it! Frank and Ernest. I loved this one. every page is a diner-ism with illustration.
http://laughingelephant.com/product-34249/
"burn one, take it through the garden and pin a rose on it"
Thank you for Googling it for us.
DeleteHa,ha...
ReplyDeleteI always wondered what "shit on a shingle" was.