antedating "greasy spoon" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

OED has 1925 (slang for restauarant)

_St Paul [MN] Globe_ 29 Apr 1898 p 4 col 4
"A person who was not long over from foreign parts went into a
restaurant, the sign of the "Greasy Spoon," on Seventh street, late
Wednesday night and asked for a dish of ham and eggs."
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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