So you want to talk like a hash slinger?
Diner Slang
Adam's Ale:
plain waterA-pie: apple pie
Axle Grease: butter
Blonde and Sweet: coffee with sugar and cream
Bottom: scoop of ice cream added to drink
Bucket of Cold Mud: bowl of chocolate ice cream
Bucket of Hail: glass of ice
Burn it and Let it Swim: chocolate float
Burn One All the Way: chocolate milkshake with chocolate ice cream
Chopper: table knife
City Juice: water
Coffee And: coffee and a doughnut
Cold Spot: iced tea
Cup of Mud: coffee
Draw One: coffee
Echo: repeat the order
Eighty-one: glass of water
Eighty-six: all out of a menu item
Eve With a Lid On: apple pie
Fifty-five: a glass of root beer
Fifty-one: hot chocolate
Five: glass of milk
Fluff it: add whipped cream
Forty-one: lemonade
George Eddy: a customer who doesn't leave a tip
Go for a Walk: a take-out order
Gravel Train: sugar bowl
Graveyard Stew: milk toast
Hold the Hail: no ice
Hops: malted milk powder
Houseboat: banana split
Ice the Rice: add ice cream to rice pudding
In the Hay: strawberry milkshake
Java: coffee
Jerk: ice cream soda
Joe: coffee
L.A.: add a scoop of ice cream
Life Preservers with a Hot Top: doughnuts with hot chocolate
Mama: marmalade
Mike and Ike: salt and pepper
Mud: black coffee with chocolate syrup
Nervous pudding: Jell-O
No Cow: hold the milk
Oil: butter
Pipes: Straws
PT: pot of tea
Sand: sugar
Sea Dust: salt
Shoot One From the South: make a strong cola
Sinkers and suds: doughnuts and coffee
Squeeze one: orange juice
Twenty-one: limeade
Velvet: a milk shake
Books and a Magazine article about Diners and Retro Eating: