page_title: Diner lingo
section_title: List of terms
hierarchical_section_title: Diner lingo / List of terms
caption_attribution_description: Two poached eggs on toast
context_page_description: Diner lingo is a kind of American verbal slang used by cooks and chefs in diners and diner-style restaurants, and by the wait staff to communicate their orders to the cooks. Usage of terms with similar meaning, propagated by oral culture within each establishment, may vary by region or even among restaurants in the same locale.
context_section_description: 86 – omit from an order; "hold"
  Adam and Eve on a raft – two poached eggs atop toast
  Adam's ale – water
  Angels on horseback – oysters wrapped in bacon
  Axle grease – butter or margarine
  B&B - bread and butter
  Baled hay – shredded wheat
  Bad breath – onions
  Bark – frankfurter
  Battle Creek in a bowl - bowl of corn flakes cereal
  Belly warmer – coffee
  BLT – bacon/lettuce/tomato sandwich
  Biddy board – French toast
  Blue plate special 
  Blowout patches – pancakes
  Board – slice of toast
  Boiled leaves – hot tea
  Bowl of red – chili con carne
  Bow wow – hot dog
  Brick – biscuit
  Bridge/Bridge party – four of anything
  Bronx vanilla – garlic; originated in the 1920s.
  Bullets – beans
  burn the British – toasted English muffin
  Cackleberries – eggs
  Cats' eyes – tapioca pudding
  Checkerboard – waffle
  City juice – water
  coffee high and dry - black coffee (no cream or sugar)
  Cowboy with spurs - western omelette with fries
  Cow paste – butter
  Dead eye – poached egg
  Dogs and maggots – crackers and cheese
  Drown the kids - boiled eggs
  Echo - repeat of the last order
  Eve with a lid – apple pie
  Fish eyes – tapioca pudding
  Foreign entanglements - spaghetti
  Greasy spoon – slang term for a diner
  Guess water - soup
  Hemorrhage - ketchup
  Hockey puck – a well-done burger
  Halitosis – garlic; originated in the 1920s.
  Hot blond in sand - coffee with cream and sugar
  Hot top – hot chocolate or chocolate sauce
  In the alley - served as a side dish
  Irish cherries – carrots
  Italian perfume – garlic; originated in the 1920s.
  Jamoka – coffee
  Java – coffee
  Jewish round - bagel
  Joe - coffee
  Life preserver – doughnut
  Looseners – prunes
  Lumber – a toothpick
  Machine oil - syrup
  Maiden's delight – cherries
  Make it cry – add onion
  Moo juice – milk
  Mug of murk – black coffee
  Mully – beef stew
  Nervous pudding – Jell-O
  O'Connors – potatoes
  On the hoof – cooked rare (for any kind of meat)
  Punk – bread
  Put wheels on it – carry-out order; to go
  Rabbit food – lettuce
  Radio sandwich – tuna fish sandwich
  Ripper – a deep fried hot dog
  Rush it – Russian dressing
  Sand – sugar
  Shit on a shingle – Chipped beef served on toast
  Sinker – doughnut
  Skid grease – butter
  Squeal – ham
  Sunny side up – a fried egg cooked on one side
  Sweepings – hash
  Take a chance – hash
  Tube steak – hot dog
  Two dots and a dash – two fried eggs and a strip of bacon
  Wet mystery – beef stew
  Whiskey down – rye toast
  With the works – with everything on it (for a sandwich)
  Wreck 'em – scrambled eggs
  Yard bird – chicken
  Yum yum – sugar
  Shingles with a shimmy and a shake - Buttered toast with jam
caption: "Adam and Eve on a raft" – two poached eggs on toast
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