Dining Room Slang (1887)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Feb 27 15:24:48 UTC 2003


At 4:16 AM -0500 2/27/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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>    3 July 1887, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 13:
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>_RESTAURANT CALLS._
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>_Waiters' Economy of Time in Giving Orders._
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>...   "Hen fruit" is boiled eggs.

Aha!  Ironymy strikes again!

L



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