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onsdag 6 februari 2013

torsdag 18 oktober 2012

Understanding Diner Lingo: 55 Phrases to Get You Started

Adam and Eve on a raft/log -Two poached eggs on toast
Adam’s ale/city juice/dog soup - Water
All hot - A baked potato
Axle grease/skid grease/cow paste - Butter
Baby juice/moo juice/cow juice/Sweet Alice - Milk
Belch water/balloon water – Seltzer or soda water
Blonde with Sand - Coffee with cream and sugar.
Bloodhound in the Hay - A hot dog with sauerkraut
Bossy in a bowl – Beef stew
Bow-wow/bun pup/tube steak/groundhog/Coney Island/Coney Island chicken/Coney Island bloodhound - A hot dog
Breath – Onion
Bronx vanilla/halitosis/Italian perfume – Garlic
Bullets/whistleberries – Baked beans
Burn one – Put a hamburger on the grill
Burn one, take it through the garden and pin a rose on it – A hamburger with lettuce, tomato and onion
Burn the British – A toasted English muffin
Cackle fruit/Cackleberries/Hen Fruit -Eggs
Chicks on a raft – Eggs on toast
Customer will take a chance/clean up the kitchen/sweep the floor – Hash
Dough well done with cow to cover – Buttered toast
Drag one through Georgia – Coca-Cola with chocolate syrup
Draw one/a cup of mud – A cup of coffee
Draw one in the dark – A cup of black coffee
First lady – Spareribs (probably a pun on Eve being made from Adam’s rib)
Fish eyes/cat’s eyes – Tapioca pudding
Flop two – Two fried eggs over easy
Frog sticks – French fries
GAC – A grilled American cheese sandwich (Also called a “jack” or a “Jack Benny” if there’s bacon on it.)
Gravel train – Sugar bowl
Heart Attack on Rack – Biscuits and gravy
Hemorrhage – Ketchup
Hockey puck – A hamburger, well done
Hounds on an Island – Franks and beans
Houseboat – A banana split
In the alley – Served as a side dish
Maiden’s delight – Cherries (“cherry” is slang for the maidenhead (archaic), or hymen)
Mississippi Mud/Yellow paint – mustard
Mystery in the alley – A side order of hash
Nervous pudding – Jelly/Jello
Noah’s boy – A slice of ham (Ham was one of the Biblical Noah’s sons)
Noah’s boy with Murphy carrying a wreath – ham and potatoes with cabbage
On the hoof – Any kind of meat cooked rare
Pair of drawers – Two cups of coffee
Pittsburgh – Toast or burn something so it’s charred on the outside but still red on the inside (probably a reference to Pittsburgh’s smokestacks or coal beds)
Put out the lights and cry – Liver and onions
Sand/gravel/yum-yum – Sugar
Sea dust – salt
Shingle with a shimmy and a shake - Buttered toast with jam
Shoot from the South/Atlanta special – Coca-Cola (the company’s headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia)
Radio – A tuna salad sandwich on toast (“tuna down” or tuna on toast, sounds like “turn it down” the command often repeated when the radio is on in the kitchen)
Wax - American cheese
Whiskey – rye bread
Whiskey down – rye toast
Wreck ‘em – Scrambled eggs
86 – Remove an item from an order or from the menu

tisdag 10 juli 2012

En svensk klassiker

Körv med bröd - lika klassiskt svenskt som fylla på midsommarafton, nu blev det ett jävla liv på kärringarna nere i Simrishamn när Tårtans gatukök använde bilden här ovanför i sin reklam, en mun som slukar en körv, hur kan man bli upprörd över något sånt? nä, det måste vara avundsjuka, de har fått för lite körv helt enkelt!