{"id":59942,"date":"2016-01-21T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=59942"},"modified":"2016-01-21T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:09:11","slug":"diner-lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59942","title":{"rendered":"diner lingo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI’ve always gotten a kick out of diner lingo and hate to see it go the way of the dodo, ya know?<\/p>\n

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Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

Hoping to do my part in preserving this cute ‘n’ cheesy (wink) caf\u00e9 chatter,<\/p>\n

I created a\u2014you guessed it\u2014QUIZ to test your food slang savvy.<\/p>\n

Have fun figuring out these phrases (the answers are posted at the end), then call them out with gusto in your own kitchen. The kids will love it.
\n1. All hot
\n2. Battery acid
\n3. Birdseed
\n4. Bubble dancer
\n5. Cluck and grunt
\n6. Cow feed
\n7. Cow paste
\n8. Eve with a lid on
\n9. Fish eyes
\n10. Frog sticks
\n11. George Eddy
\n12. Houseboat
\n13. Italian perfume
\n14. Make it moo
\n15. Mike and Ike
\n16. Moo juice
\n17. Nervous pudding
\n18. Radio
\n19. Sea dust
\n20. Shingle with a shimmy and a shake
\n21. Vermont
\n22. Walk a cow through the garden and pin a rose on it
\n23. Whistle berries
\n24. Yum-yum<\/p>\n

Answers:
\n1. Baked potato
\n2. Grapefruit juice
\n3. Breakfast cereal
\n4. Dishwasher
\n5. Eggs and bacon
\n6. Salad
\n7. Butter
\n8. Apple pie
\n9. Tapioca pudding
\n10. French fries
\n11. Customer who doesn’t leave tips
\n12. Banana split
\n13. Garlic
\n14. Add milk\/cream to coffee
\n15. Salt and pepper shakers
\n16. Milk
\n17. Jell-o (or, better yet, Giggle Wiggles\u2014one of my Chillover recipes!)
\n18. Tuna salad sandwich
\n19. Salt
\n20. Buttered toast with jam
\n21. Maple syrup
\n22. Hamburger with lettuce, tomato and onion
\n23. Baked beans
\n24. Sugar\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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