SC - More Sample Diner language-OOP

LrdRas at aol.com LrdRas at aol.com
Fri Mar 10 07:29:48 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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