However, many times, the expression used is much longer than what is really necessary to convey the customer’s order to the back of the house, but this is part of the fun. These terms are so useful they have passed into our everyday language. Mayois certainly shorter than mayonnaise and BLT is a lot easier than saying bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. You would think that the intention of such a language is to create a short-hand so that longer orders can be called out in a brief verbal barrage rather than a long and complicated patter. Recommended Book: Hash House Lingo: The Slang of Soda Jerks, Short-Order Cooks, Bartenders, Waitresses, Carhops and Other Denizens of Yesterday’s Roadside
Although some of the terms may have originated as early as the 1870’s, with the soda jerks, they had their heyday between the 1920’s and 1970’s. But the language handed down from the soda fountains and lunch counters to the modern diner originally served a purpose. If you’ve ever heard a counter-person calling out orders using this slang, you may have thought you were listening to a complicated insider’s code that only the inner circle of diner-world can understand. Some diners have their own peculiar slang, but there are some age-old gems that have been passed down. Some if it came from the old soda fountain and lunch-counters. Not all of this language originated in diners, though. Diner lingo is becoming a thing of the past but there are still diners where the servers use this colorful language to call out orders.
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