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

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Wed Sep 21 05:04:16 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> * "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.

Sorry, the dates got left off these. That would be the June 21, 1937
Washington Post and the Oct. 19, 1938 Salt Lake Tribune.

> * "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

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