Query: What's "Shep"? --- was: Re: "Hot enough for you?" (1876, 1878, 1880)

[neil]

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>  In the 1915 item of hash-house lingo in Barry Popik's message below, =
> what does "Shep" mean?
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> Original message from Barry Popik, 8/1/2006, 9:26 p.m.
> ...
> 28 March 1915, Dallas Morning News, pg. 4:
> _WAITERS' SLANG._
> _Oddities of Restaurant Talk._
> ...
> <snip>
> "Frankfurter and sauerkraut, good and hot," says the customer.
> ...
> "Fido, Shep and a bale of hay," shouts the waiter, "and let 'em  =
> sizzle!"
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Since Shep has an initial capital, couldn't it be the chef/cook's name?

--Neil Crawford

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