SC - RE: Roe
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Fri Mar 10 07:45:41 PST 2000
Here are some diner language terms from The Dictionary of American Food and
Drink that you might find interesting:
5- large milk; 21- limeade; 41-lemonade; 51-hot chocolate; 55-root beer;
81-water; Adam's ale-plain water; Arizona-Buttermilk; axle grease-butter;
baby-milk; belch water-seltzer; birdseed-cereal; blonde-coffee with cream;
bossy in a bowl-beef stew; bowl of red-chili con carne; bowwow-hot dog;
breath-onion; bucket of hail-small glass of ice; burn the British-toasted
English muffin; cat's eyes-tapioca; China-rice pudding; city juice-water;
cold spot-iced tea; ; cowboy-western omelet; cow feed-salad; creep-draft
beer; deadeye-poached egg; dog and maggot-crackers and cheese; Eve with a lid
on-apple pie; first lady-spareribs; Frenchman's delight-pea soup; gentleman
will take a chance-hash; graveyard stew-milk toast; hemorrhage-ketchup; Irish
turkey-corned beef and cabbage; Joe-coffee; looseness-prunes; Lord's
supper-bread and water; maiden's delight-cherries; Mike and Ike-salt and
pepper; mud-black coffee; Murphy-potatoes; natural-7Up; Noah's boy-a slice of
ham; Pittsburhh-toast; put out the lights and cry-liver and onions;
radio-tuna salad on toast; sand-sugar; sea dust-salt; sinkers and
suds-doughnuts and coffee; to the left-lemon syrup; to the right-cherry
syrup; Vermont-maple syrup; warts-olives; wreath-cabbage;
whistleberries-baked beans.
Enjoy! :-)
Ras
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