Mongolian Barbecue (Jan. 1966); Surfer Slang (Oct. 1963)

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MONGOLIAN BARBECUE (continued)

   This has long puzzled me.  "Mongolian" barbecue existed since Genghis Khan, but where was it in the U.S. before the 1960s-1970s?
   A great article is in PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC, January/February 1966, pg. 32:

_THE BROIL IT YOURSELF BARBECUE_
(...)
   The chef-general was Genghis Khan and the brown-and-serve method of cooking he improvised bears his name today in a number of fashionable restaurants throughout the Pacific.  The mode of cooking has at last landed under the American flag and in Hawaii there are no less than three restaurants offering a Mongolian menu: Furusato's, Kaneda's and the elegant Kahala Hilton.

(Long article--ed.)

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SURFER SLANG

   From a surfing article in PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC, October 1963, pg. 27, col. 2:

ICI ON PARLE SURF

hodad.........loudmouth
jodad.........hodad from Tijuana
hot dogger....expert
tag-a-long....steady date
wahini........girl surfer
highway surfer..phoney
kook..........novice
beach bunny...girl novice
baggies.......big swim trunks
cork top......any surfer
goofy foot....puts wrong foot forward
woody.........beach buggy
curl..........top of breaking wave
tube..........hollow part under curl
heavies.......big waves
sliding.......ride a wave
soup..........foam
surf's up.....heavy sea
skeg..........fin of surfboard
dings.........dents on board
shoot the curl..do something exciting
take gas......ignominious end
wipe out......big spill
stoked........excited
boss..........adjective: great!
cowabunga!....expletive: wow!



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