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American Diner Slang
coldwind Started conversation Feb 19, 2004
What a great site -- I found it looking for a soda fountain definition for the term "red mud".
A few terms you might want to add:
Sinkers -- Doughnuts, partly because they tend to be dunked in a cup of coffee, but also because the cake variety can resemble the old lead weights squeezed onto fishing lines -- and their consistency is frequently heavy enough to sink to the bottom of anything.
Owl Wagon -- A diner that's open all night (check out the great Preston Sturges film "Sullivan's Travels").
Pittsburgh Rare is known in some parts of the States as Black and Blue -- presumably because of that cool color that extremely rare meat has.
A bottle and a cold bird -- Not exactly diner slang, George Brent says this to his girl in the film "42nd Street". I have heard it was a way that theatrical people would order a hamburger and a cup of coffee. I would gladly learn more, if anyone out there knows.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Feb 19, 2004
Glad you liked it
You'll find 'sinkers and suds' - doughnuts and coffee - in the list, but I hadn't thought of the fishing weight reference
'Owl wagon' - I like that one
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