There’s a difference between a “tab” being “your check for food and beverages during a visit, which your waitress leaves at your table, and which you pay at the end of your meal” and “an ongoing account of what you owe to the establishment for what you ate or drank over multiple visits, which you’ll settle up at some future date when you have some money.” The other posters are referring to the latter, I believe.
That’s my understanding. There used to be a dive bar I visited. I would drink there during the week without paying. I settled up about every 2 weeks.
And honestly, you generally don’t pay for any restaurant food until after you eat.
Sit-down/table-service restaurants, at least, absolutely. Fast-food places, you’re generally paying when you order, and some buffet places may have you pay before you can go to the buffet for the first time.
Right, I used that term intentionally. I just Googled restaurants near me and it included In-N-Out burger. Personally I don’t consider fast food places ‘restaurants’.
That’s just silly.
One thing you would only have started hearing in 1975 was ‘let’s go through the drive-thru at McDonald’s’, as they didn’t have them until that year.
Pay before you pump.
(yes, I know “pay-at-the-pump”) technology existed in 1973, but it wasn’t widely adopted until the 80s, and it wasn’t until the 90s, that paying before pumping was required at about 80% of self-serve pumps, and that you could use a debit card to do so)
I never answer the phone unless I recognize the number, too many robocalls.
Speaking of which…
Never said in 1975: I am deeply concerned about the long term effects of our declining birthrate.
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“No, the other guy who won an Oscar for playing The Joker.”
Comfort food
This one surprised me. But I checked and confirmed that the term serial killer did not enter popular usage until the eighties. (Although there apparently were some earlier appearances of the term in academic texts.)
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This one surprised me. But I checked and confirmed that the term serial killer did not enter popular usage until the eighties. (Although there apparently were some earlier appearances of the term in academic texts.).
As I remember (and WIKI only halfway backs me up), Robert Ressler–FBI agent and pioneering profiler–coined the term specifically in reference to David Berkowitz circa 1978. Like someone watching movie serials in the 1940s, a serial killer tries to regain the thrill of the original murder but gets diminishing returns on each subsequent attempt. There is a German equivalent, Serienmörder, used in the 1930s-on, which Ressler may have picked up on when he was an MP in Germany in the late 50s, but he is believed to have originated the term in the US.
Damn, now I’m hungry for chicken fried steak, mash potatoes and biscuits and gravy.
That mustache is a little over the top, don’t you think?
What brand of diapers do you use?
Let’s get sushi burritos for lunch!
That girl has no hair on her vagina.
Woman
Vulva