Restaurant Lingo (1941)

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   Another roundup, from Ancestry.  "Cow to cover" doesn't seem to have been
recorded.  "Shimmy" and "splatter dabs" are also worth noting.


   19 September 1941, MARION STAR (Marion, Ohio), pg.6, col. 5:
_Restaurant Lingo_
By The Associated Press
   NEW YORK--For years restaurant counter men and waiters have used their own
language in relaying orders to busy chefs.  In "A Quiz for Gourmets," a list
of nicknames for foods is compiled by the head chef at the Hotel New Yorker.
Among the favorites and best known are:
   "Draw one," meaning a cup of coffee; "clean up the kitchen," a plate of
hash; "cowboy," western sandwich; "cow to cover," butter; "pig between sheets,"
ham sandwich; "shimmy," gelatine dessert; "Adam and Eve," two eggs; "splatter
dabs," pancakes.