"everything": hamburger (1937), hot dog (1938), pizza (1954), bagel (1988)

[victor steinbok]

GNA shows two stories in the Harford Courant (paywall) that antedate the
pizza:

Pass the Pizza, Pappy
> Pay-Per-View - Hartford Courant - Apr 15, 1953
> But we hope not. because an "everything-on-it" pizza is one that should he
> worked up to gradually, after long apprenticeship. To the pizza neophyte,
> ...


Requiescat in Pizza
> Pay-Per-View - Hartford Courant - May 27, 1953
> We have no doubt that legislators whose hungry, wan looks, have been
> dissipated by pizzas (with everything on them, including anchovies and
> mushrooms. ...


Obviously, both need to be verified.

A nice piece that, unfortunately, fails to antedate:

http://goo.gl/loQLl
Hollywood. By Bob Thomas. Daytona Beach Morning Journal - Nov 4, 1955. p.
4/3
[Commentary about Alec Guinness visiting the US to film The Swan.]

> He likes the food here, especially the hamburger sandwiches with everything
> on.



VS-)


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

>
> Over on Language Log, there's been some discussion (thanks to Shel
> Silverstein and the Dalai Lama) about the use of "everything" to mean "all
> available toppings" with reference to hot dogs and pizza and such, as well
> as the "everything bagel":
>
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3441
>
> A few cites (this sense of "everything" is not recorded in OED or any other
> dictionary I checked):
>
> * "hamburger with everything"
>
> 1937 _Washington Post_ 14/3 [Jimmie Fidler's "In Hollywood" column] Ann
> Sothern is a "hamburger with everything, please" addict.
>
> * "hot dog with everything"
>
> 1938 _Salt Lake Tribune_ 10/1 [Jimmie Fidler's "In Hollywood" column]
> Studies in incongruity: Marie Wilson, swanky in a dazzling cloth-of-silver
> evening gown, munching a hot dog with everything at Jungle Bill's roadside
> stand.
>
> * "pizza with everything"
>
> 1954 _Christian Science Monitor_ 5 Mar. 17/4 There was Pizza with
> mushrooms,
> Pizza with tomatoes, Pizza with this and Pizza with that, Pizza with the
> other -- quite a lengthy list, concluding with the triumphant line in
> capital letters, "PIZZA WITH EVERYTHING."
>
> * "everything bagel"
>
> 1988 _New York Times_ 3 Aug. C7/3 The "everything bagel" is dusted with
> salt, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, garlic and onion.
>
> --bgz
>
> --
> Ben Zimmer

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