El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-09
'HASHER' SLANG
BEING REFINED
Ell Paso's RestaWateurs
Demand Purer English
Be Used to the Cooks.

A polite and refined style OF the
queens English for ordering food
products from the cook in short order
establishments in FL Paso is supplant-
ing the FLASHER slang" that was for
merly in vogue, and the old fashioned
stock phrases Of near English once
used by walters and cooks are heard
less and less
The man movers in this high brow
crusade for % substitution OF a 100
percent pure article Of English for
the George AIDE lingo formerly en-
ployed appears TO have been the
restaurant owners themselves.
Whenever / hear one OF these
hashers pulling any rough stuff when
he orders eats from tho kitchen,
bawI him out and promise him the
rough chuck out unless he cans the
BoWery stuff from his vocabulary,
said a prominent cafe manager the
other day. ANY hash singer who
tries TO put over the % style Of spiel
in his hOller TO the COOK can Just
make & noise ike q tree and leave. L
am strong for the good English game
10 the limit and insist on IL from ny
employees"
COmmereinlism Demands It.
The desire u Il P.1sJ Ies ta-urant
owners Tor q pure and elegant tovn
OF English dicLIOn Is not euLrely die
tateu ny q regard for chaste and beau
tiful rhetoric, IL is SAID Aercel na.i y
commercialism also IS responsible, 1t
seems
For instance when a fasudious high
brow patron comes in ana Oruers
half dozen blue points fried, 10 might
cause his nerves a severe shock 10
be ar the waiter sing out, "a halr
dozen in grease TO the cook at ,ue
rear In Iact ne might Immediately
leave.
Cid Slang Gets the Hook
In THIS crusade Tor the use Of the
English language in the II Paso res
tauranLs an sUrts Of tiled and true ex-
presslOns are getting the hook Al is
no Longer cOnsIuereu good form for
snort order Walter to announce tllt
he wants cemetery cOckLall,' or
grave IS ard Stew but instead he
must designate carefully that he is
ANXIOUS % nave an OIuer Of mink
toast prepared he wall say "porh
sausage and not sing out * o.
y n4Le none OF the various nicEnlmeS
tor nam and' are in good form
or instance when q young man
who has exceeded the speed limit the
nlsnr before in ordering scotch hiEu-
ulllS ~ the club comes in uum Ily and
requests some of the stun that is
popular Ia England. the waiter Will
brave the wraLn VI the cafe owner II
lie sings back 70 the cnef al the
range, Grease the slabs and q pot"
nslead, he wIl be- expected TO walk
gracefully back TO the cook and say
IN a resp luli polite tone, castor,
pay thee set me out some buttered
toast ana pot Of steamlug OuIong.
her"Sl La5Sls in Graveyard.
In the grave. a4G OF DygUns food
labels are found Two bright eyes
sealu.ns Tor two egss fried on one
slCe on.ys "a rubDcrntcE, uutn 10
up, - men a plain steak is wanted
well done and the classic expression
AQam and I've on a raft ana wreck
en-, Tor two scrambled eggs on toast
~ la be among the lals lamented
phrases.
Neither is Il considered good FORM
-osay draw one in the DARK" when a
sup OF the aromatic liquid popular at
hobo lunch-ons and as an aIter din
ler drink at swell luncneuns IS
wanted.
Aany reasons are assigned By cooks
ina walters for the lsrauuaI elimIna-
ion OF the old time slang OF the res
aurant ki.cnen from use. WINE the
ilsapproNal OF cafe managers was
irooa1ly tho most potent factor,
walters say that the use OF menus
IND ca. eIully WOrded bills Of fare IS
mother and In addition there is q
enleucy in every Thing 70 use more
.ZGct phrases