DINER LINGO * 86 - omit from an order; "hold" * Adam and Eve on a raft - two poached eggs atop toast * Adam's ale - water * Angels on horseback - oysters wrapped in bacon * Axle grease - butter or margarine * B&B - bread and butter * Baled hay - shredded wheat * Bad breath - onions * Bark - frankfurter * Battle Creek in a bowl - bowl of corn flakes cereal * Belly warmer - coffee * BLT - bacon/lettuce/tomato sandwich * Biddy board - French toast * Blue plate special * Blowout patches - pancakes * Board - slice of toast * Boiled leaves - hot tea * Bowl of red - chili con carne * Bow wow - hot dog * Brick - biscuit * Bridge/Bridge party - four of anything * Bronx vanilla - garlic; originated in the 1920s. * Bullets - beans * burn the British - toasted English muffin * Cackleberries - eggs * Cats' eyes - tapioca pudding * Checkerboard - waffle * City juice - water * coffee high and dry - black coffee (no cream or sugar) * Cowboy with spurs - western omelette with fries * Cow paste - butter * Dead eye - poached egg * Dogs and maggots - crackers and cheese * Drown the kids - boiled eggs * Echo - repeat of the last order * Eve with a lid - apple pie * Fish eyes - tapioca pudding * Foreign entanglements - spaghetti * Greasy spoon - slang term for a diner * Guess water - soup * Hemorrhage - ketchup * Hockey puck - a well-done burger * Halitosis - garlic; originated in the 1920s. * Hot blond in sand - coffee with cream and sugar * Hot top - hot chocolate or chocolate sauce * In the alley - served as a side dish * Irish cherries - carrots * Italian perfume - garlic; originated in the 1920s. * Jamoka - coffee * Java - coffee * Jewish round - bagel * Joe - coffee * Life preserver - doughnut * Looseners - prunes * Lumber - a toothpick * Machine oil - syrup * Maiden's delight - cherries * Make it cry - add onion * Moo juice - milk * Mug of murk - black coffee * Mully - beef stew * Nervous pudding - Jell-O * O'Connors - potatoes * On the hoof - cooked rare (for any kind of meat) * Punk - bread * Put wheels on it - carry-out order; to go * Rabbit food - lettuce * Radio sandwich - tuna fish sandwich * Ripper - a deep fried hot dog * Rush it - Russian dressing * Sand - sugar * Shit on a shingle - Chipped beef served on toast * Sinker - doughnut * Skid grease - butter * Squeal - ham * Sunny side up - a fried egg cooked on one side * Sweepings - hash * Take a chance - hash * Tube steak - hot dog * Two dots and a dash - two fried eggs and a strip of bacon * Wet mystery - beef stew * Whiskey down - rye toast * With the works - with everything on it (for a sandwich) * Wreck 'em - scrambled eggs * Yard bird - chicken * Yum yum - sugar * Shingles with a shimmy and a shake - Buttered toast with jam Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diner_lingo