Does/did Diner Slang (i.e. Adam and Eve on a raft, etc.) exist? It seems cutesy and I’ve heard it used in old films and television shows, but I’ve never thought it was actually true. Can anyone with Diner experience confirm this?
Yes. However we would have kill you afterword. :smack:
I heard a waiter say “whiskey” to mean “rye bread” at a Manhattan diner c. 1992.
yeah, it’s there. I worked at a Coney Island (a Detroit thing) when I was in high school. it wasn’t outrageous terms, more things like “two on one” and the like.
FWIW, I’ve been told a “Hopalong Cassidy” is an open-faced roast beef sandwich with french fries and gravy poured over the whole shebang. Bread gets soggy, though.
Never been to Waffle House I take it? 
Here’s a sampling from one of Montana’s more colorful dive bars. Unfortunately, some while back they swept up the sawdust and let women in, and the place really hasn’t been the same since.
I don’t know if it ever got as standardized as some places (carney slang for example) but there is a lot of it around.
Mad Magazine:One Busy day In A Highway Restaurant
“Gotta go, Mac, and no foolin’!”
Diner/hash house/soda jerker slang was very real from the teens-forties. I think it died out somewhat after that.
One of my favorites was on the I Love Lucy episode in which the gang opens up a diner, because of course they did. A customer orders hash, and Fred yells, “We’ve got a gambler in the house!”
I also liked “Put Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck 'em.” This meant (according to the book I read) scrambled eggs on bacon.
Kill a cow and drain the blood! = Hamburger, no ketchup. (Probably bogus)
This. Try and order hash browns at a Waffle House without slang
“Shit on a Shingle” is Chipped Beef on Toast, but I think that’s more of a Military thing.
Hash was also called, “Yesterday, today, and forever.”