"Burn the British!" was a popular outcry from waiters to cooks in a largely forgotten uniquely American culinary vernacular. That would be diner lingo. "'Burn the British' meant toasted English ...

There are, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), more than 2,000 languages in danger of becoming extinct worldwide. To that list, I would add an ...

Diner lingo is a language all its own. Diner slang or diner lingo was used to speed up the ordering process and make orders easier to hear and remember in a crowded restaurant. Diner lingo was most ...

New York City is famous for several schools of what might be called waiter’s lingo, or lunch-counter slang. In the 19th-century hash houses of the city — where a nickel bought a full meal that often ...

Diner lingo is said to have roots in the 1850s, but didn’t gain much traction until it permeated the popular luncheonettes during the next century. Things like “BLT,” “mayo,” and eggs “over easy” all ...

William Goyette, owner of the Mill Pond Diner in Wareham, tells a story about a woman who came in many years ago for a takeout coffee, but, on learning it was 50 cents, complained that the place down ...