# Diner Slang
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 3, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658 "2015-02-03T01:25:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/1 "2015-02-03T01:25:27Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/2 "2015-02-03T01:37:02Z")
> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#):
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> Can anyone with Diner experience confirm this?
Yes. However we would have kill you afterword. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/3 "2015-02-03T01:38:07Z")
I heard a waiter say “whiskey” to mean “rye bread” at a Manhattan diner c. 1992.
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### Author:  [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/4 "2015-02-03T01:59:08Z")
> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#):
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> 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?
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.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/5 "2015-02-03T02:05:31Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/6 "2015-02-03T02:07:46Z")
Never been to Waffle House I take it? 🙂
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/7 "2015-02-03T02:16:40Z")
Here’s a [sampling](http://www.the-oxford.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=64) 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.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/8 "2015-02-03T04:46:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/9 "2015-02-03T04:55:05Z")
Mad Magazine:[One Busy day In A Highway Restaurant](http://www.madmagazine.com/sites/default/files/One-Busy-Day-in-a-Highway-Restaurant.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/10 "2015-02-03T15:11:13Z")
“Gotta go, Mac, and no foolin’!” 🙂
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/11 "2015-02-03T17:32:32Z")
Diner/hash house/soda jerker slang was very real from the teens-forties. I think it died out somewhat after that.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/12 "2015-02-03T19:23:20Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/13 "2015-02-03T23:01:13Z")
Kill a cow and drain the blood! = Hamburger, no ketchup. (Probably bogus)
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/14 "2015-02-04T18:21:31Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> Never been to Waffle House I take it? 🙂
This. Try and order hash browns at a Waffle House _without_ slang
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/15 "2015-02-04T18:41:20Z")
“Shit on a Shingle” is Chipped Beef on Toast, but I think that’s more of a Military thing.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-slang/711658/16 "2015-02-04T18:55:53Z")
Hash was also called, “Yesterday, today, and forever.”