Diner Lingo refers to a specialized Slang used by servers and cooks in Diners and similar casual restaurants to communicate orders quickly and efficiently. This informal language, rich with colorful metaphors, transforms common food items into a unique, often playful, code.
Common Terms
- Adam and Eve on a Raft: Two Poached Eggs on Toast
- Axle Grease: Butter
- Bad Breath: With extra Onions or Garlic
- Blowout: A large order, often requiring extra effort
- Boil the Japanese: Boil the Rice
- Brown Tablet: Chocolate bar
- Burn One: Place a Hamburger on the grill
- Burn the Germans: Cook the Sauerkraut until crispy
- Burn the Italians: Cook the Pizza Well Done
- Checkerboard: Waffle
- Cock-a-doodle-doo: Chicken Sandwich
- Coffee High: A cup of Coffee
- Cow Juice: Milk
- Cows with Lace: Cream with Sugar
- Cup of Bitterness: A cup of Coffee
- Diabetes in a Can: Sugary Soda
- Dog and Maggot: A Cracker with Cheese
- Dragged Through the Garden: With all the fixings, especially Vegetables
- Eggy and Oily: Fried Eggs
- Hold the Grass: No Lettuce
- Italian Pie: Pizza
- Leafy Liquid: Tea
- Licky Time: Ice Cream
- Looseners: Prune Juice
- Make it Cry: Add Onions
- Moo: Milk
- Nervous Pudding: Jell-O
- Oink: Pork
- On a Raft: On Toast
- On the Hoof: Rare meat
- Pop: Soda
- Quack: Duck
- Red Mustard: Ketchup
- Ring: Onion Ring
- Squawk: Chicken
- White Powder: Sugar
- Wreck 'em: Scramble the Eggs
