John's Blog: Paint It Red

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Paint It Red

The iconic New York Deli Cup recreated in ceramic form, to allow you to make your home feel like a diner. Rude service, and tipping are optional.

Since about a third of all of the operational diners are here in New Jersey I'm tempted to recycle a previous post of diner links, but instead a few bits of diner lingo to round out your vocabulary:

Soup jockey: Waitress

Ladybug: Fountain Man

Bubble Dancer: Dishwasher

Angel: Sandwich Man

Gallery: Booth

In the alley: Served as a side dish

Lumber: A toothpick

Mike and Ike or The twins: Salt and pepper shakers

Hemorrhage: Ketchup

Mississippi Mud or Yellow paint: Mustard

Warts: Olives

Flowing Mississippi: A black coffee

No cow: Without milk

A blonde with sand: Coffee with cream and sugar

Gravel train: Sugar bowl

Mystery in the alley: A side order of hash

Blowout patches: Pancakes

Bloodhounds in the Hay: Hot dogs and Sauerkraut

|| JM, 12:03 AM

1 Comments:

A friend took me to a New York style restaurant and all the waiters bossed you around. I laughed so hard that the waiters thought I was looney - well, maybe I am. I don't think I would like it on a regular basis, tho.