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Diner slang as torture
Spaceechik, Typomancer Started conversation Sep 23, 2007
My uncle Mo used to own a diner on the campus of Wayne State University, in downtown (or nearly so) Detroit. He used to come over to the house and ask for meals using slang, and drive my mother nuts!
Until she asked a neighbor of ours to give her some of *his* foodspeak from a texas rib joint he used to own... 
Diner slang as torture
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Sep 23, 2007
Nice 
I work at a restaurant (sort of), and I'm pretty sure that most of the folks in the kitchen would go 
if I tried any of this on them.
Diner slang as torture
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Sep 23, 2007
Probably the waiters too.
Diner slang as torture
Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Sep 24, 2007
That's a shame...I can't remember too much of the lingo my uncle used, and I wish I did. It was colorful, and fun, when my mother kept trying to figure out what he wanted. Saturday lunches could be hilarious!
I'm afraid the phrase "sh*t on a shingle" would be eerily appropriate at McD's. 
Diner slang as torture
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Sep 24, 2007
Y'know, next time I go in on my day off and have something to eat I'm going to try some diner slang on the waiters. I think we have enough things on the menu that I could work some in.
Diner slang as torture
Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) Posted Nov 7, 2008
Well?
Diner slang as torture
Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Nov 7, 2008
Don't ask me! I'm afraid the only slang I remember is my FIL's favorite meal -- S**t on a shingle -- which was from the Army.
Diner slang as torture
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Nov 7, 2008
I forgot.
Diner slang as torture
Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) Posted Nov 8, 2008
Sorry SC, I was asking Gosho (who answered what I'd guessed anyway)
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Diner slang as torture
- 1: Spaceechik, Typomancer (Sep 23, 2007)
- 2: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Sep 23, 2007)
- 3: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Sep 23, 2007)
- 4: Spaceechik, Typomancer (Sep 24, 2007)
- 5: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Sep 24, 2007)
- 6: Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) (Nov 7, 2008)
- 7: Spaceechik, Typomancer (Nov 7, 2008)
- 8: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Nov 7, 2008)
- 9: Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) (Nov 8, 2008)
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