Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-11

lights had long since given place to a study
of the mystic sounds all around him. He
settled himself to catch every new call. A
business man was next to give his order. 1t
was waited kitchenward by leather-lunged
waiter: ''Let the blood follow the knife
once; coffee, no-ol" According to another
lusty demand a youth with thin legs and a
high collar, who had just come in, was hun
cry for "P. Yankee and corn from the neigh
Dor, up and up" By this time the two men
opposite the listening young man had fin
ished the more substantial portion of their
ready for ''T. o. K. and both,'' and that
the other had an appetite for ''Catskill.''
Now thoroughly mystifed, the young man
sought the clerk. That functionary, an ac-
complished and iaunty young man, was tax
ing in cash and checks with one hand and
deftly throwing out change with the other, a
performance he did not intermit for second,
even when it became necessary to sell au i'm
patient customer two 6ve-cent cigars for q
quarter, berate waiter for negligence and
order the buck mutton for to o-morrow's lamb
stew.
Understand that 1ingoa' said he sWen,
L haven't been in the restaurant business in
all parts of the country for fourteen years
without picking up point or two. 1 can
explain all these things to you. Let me see
take them down as give them to you, and
the list will max kind of restaurant direc-
tOIy oee: 1O DeSlu WIFI, tommy IN the
bowl means one bowl of tomato soup;
'bouillon bowl up is one bowl of beef soup.
r. Yankee is pea soup and 'somee' is YER
mlcelll. A brown stone front is a porter
house steak, and double brown stone 'front.'
POI terhouse for two. West Broadway means
pork and beans, and shave her brown an ex-
ira brown signifies that the beans are to be
well warmed over. fRobby Blue on the iron
lie broiled bluefish, and cash on delivery
brolled Goldfish. Corn from the neighbor' is
corned beef, and the adjunct up and up
means that it must be streak and streak of
fat and lean, while put the beans on brown
calls for the addition of beans to the dish.
Let the blood follow the knife is the signal
for roast beef extra rare. 'Spuds' are pota-
toes, and 'mealo, boilo, busto' means boiled
potatoes that are large, mealy and well
cooked. 'T. o. k is the call for tapioca
pudding, and both means both kinds of
sauce, hard and soft. Suet pudding is Cats
kill and 'plum-up' OF 'plum-up' or plum
Jo' means plum pudding IT. with b. is
brown the jack or corn johnny Order
stars and stripes and you'll get pork and
beans. When coffee or tea is desired with
out milk the call is coffee no. or tea no.
Chow did these names originated Many
of them probably with the negro walters,
who are given to singing out their orders
Then l suppose some of them came from
bright white walters who tired of calling the
same old things. The calls differ little in
some restaurants, but the definitions have
given you would be recognized in any popu-
lar New York eating place. The cooks get
so used to these slang terms 5hey hardly !
know the common articles by their right |
names"
SIS the custom general elsewhere?'
"Yes, indeed. I've worked in restaurants |
or owned them in most parts of the country |
end I've always found it so. The Salvation |
army runs a very popular restaurant in Chi |
cago. There butter cakes are called three |
up there being three in an order; eggs fried |
and turned are fry three over;' Duckwheat |
cakes are brown the buck Such cries as
brown the hash and have her extra brown |
ham and for ham and eggs, that mystery
for pie and similar expressions are heard
In that case the cooks yell back |
the order as loudly as it is yelled at them,
and you will hear waiter shout three up
and then cook roar back, three up, rightp |
cat the Beanery,' the famous Bohemian |
resort in St. Louis, baked beans are brown
the herb brown oysters fried are the salt |
seas over,' or stewed, "a briny foat,' and a |
oroiled chicken is "a fairy on the iron
Soups are always owls fish are fins and |
coffee is 'let the brown bird CO..
''But the queerest names L heard |
were out in Leadville. was there run
ming a palatial dining house in un-
painted pine shanty during the palmy days
of '79. They had all the terms I've given
you and good many more. For instance
a steak rarely done W called "a moonlight
on the lake;' a ham sandwich was "a
chump on his back and if mustard was
desired the waiter added with wolf
Coffee was Juice the berry once and pan
cakes were saddles; Ice cream was freeze
mis- liver once or twice. as the case might
be, and liver and bacon were called 'douse
the glim and throw on header I tell
you it was mighty hard thing for man
,ut there to tell whether he was going to |
eat live stock, tousehold furniture or real |
estate from the orders.''