#HASH HOUSE CODE#

A chapter of the first Odd Thomas book details Odd's normal work day at the diner he works at.The Frank and Ernest picture books (nothing to do with the comic strip) are about an anthropomorphic elephant and bear encountering the colorful argot of various professions.Airplane! gets in one, when Captain Oveur is conversing with the Mayo clinic.note two sunny-side up eggs on toast with a side of steak fries' In The Muppets Take Manhattan, Yolanda Rat puts an order up in the diner window: 'two zeroes on a trampoline with a side of Joan of Arc.Meat is ordered either 'burnt to a crisp' (well done) or 'bloody as hell' (rare). Mia orders her milkshake 'Martin and Lewis' rather than 'Amos and Andy' (vanilla rather than chocolate). In Pulp Fiction, the retro Malt Shop Jackrabbit Slim's uses hash house lingo in its menu.Older Than Television: In the Fatty Arbuckle short The Waiters' Ball, a customer asks for pork and beans, and the waiter shouts to Fatty to make 'One grunt with a thousand on a plate!'.That customer asked for an hot dog earlier - which Moe called out as 'one bow-wow!' - but changed his mind once he saw Curly chase after a dog. In The Three Stooges short 'Playing the Ponies', when someone orders two eggs on toast Moe shouts to Curly the cook 'Adam and Eve on a raft!' - followed by 'And wreck 'em!' after the customer clarifies that he wants the eggs scrambled rather than fried.McCauley makes the new order $12 million to go! Heat features bursts of Hash House Lingo in the diner where Breeden is slaving when McCauley offers him a job as getaway driver.In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie orders 'scotch on the rocks' from a Toon waiter, realizes whom he's addressing and corrects it to, 'And I mean ice!', but they apparently can't resist the gag - the glass that arrives has ice and one rock in it.Compare with Sommelier Speak, a type of jargon used to describe the flavor of wines. Very rarely, may be Played for Drama by combining it with Trouble Entendre. Not to be confused with Hash(ish) House Lingo, though it might be. May contain Lampshade Hanging as to the nature of the food.

After a decade of operating a place, every possible order can be an in-joke that the entire staff would be privy to.Ĭommon in, but not exclusive to, the Greasy Spoon. There is a reason this is associated with roadside diners: unlike places in towns or cities where the staff turnover would be relatively high, diners located on long interstates would tend to keep the same staff for many years.

Waiters can and will use wacky names as mnemonic devices, and customers use slang for the convenience (like in many other transactions). There is some Truth in Television to this.

#HASH HOUSE CODE#

Brooklyn accents are typical of these scenes, as is some misfortune happening to Adam and Eve, which is near-universal as code for describing the endless ways to cook two eggs. A scene takes place in a restaurant, the waitress takes the diners' orders, and after taking their menus, she calls toward the kitchen something that sounds like utter gibberish.

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