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Luncheonette lingo definitions

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"Shake one brown cow!"

A soda jerk receiving this directive from a waiter would know that a chocolate-root beer milk shake was needed ASAP. During the heyday of the luncheonette, cooks and servers developed their own language to describe items on the menu, for example:

Adam and Eve on a raft: Poached eggs on toast

Adam and Eve on a raft; wreck 'em : Scrambled eggs on toast

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