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Diner Slang

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Diner Slang

 

 

Adam's Ale: plain water

A-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: