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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What 86 has todo with "no"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

I've heard "86" as slang for eliminate/remove but I don't know where it comes from, and I would never use it if I thought it could be confused with a quantity.

It sounds like something a stereotypical Chicago mobster might say, so I'd probably not use that slang anyway.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

Definitely should have written "no cherries," but it is a common restaurant industry term in the US.

Interestingly enough, you can also 86 a person. This means they're not allowed to come back to the bar/restaurant/etc...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Just to throw it out there, 86 is also used in the film industry (at least in LA) meaning to cancel or get rid of something. It's very widely used across the industry. I don't know of any other slang that is shared between restaurants and film though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Just an aside. I worked well over 20 years in food service as a second job. I don't think "86" is a widespread term in food service, there are some of us that would know what you meant, but not many. If I had to guess, I would guess its origins were with the Trucking industry, specifically CB/shortwave radio operators since they abbreviated a TON of phrases with numbers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I was mostly curious and love random trivia. So I looked it up and apparently it has a wiki page. It did actually originate in the restaurant/bar scene but way back in the 1920’s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

That explains it. I only knew the term because of a few of the old heads using it when I started in the mid '90s.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Never heard of this in the UK, just strike/kill. Maybe it's a US thing.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't really care for what, if you are requesting something from someone you don't know in a way that's intentionally stupid or roundabout, you need to be prepared to get exactly what you asked for.

Fast food doubly so, they give no shits. Ask for a burger but hold the burger? Expect an empty wrapper.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Had a friend who worked in a pizza store have someone order at pizza with chilli as an ingredient, "how hot do you want it?", customer said "11/10". They were very generous with the chilli flakes. Customer then called back to complain it was too hot!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 minutes ago

I want to go to that pizza shop.

My whole life I've asked for things to be as hot as possible only to always be disappointed.

Then on a whim I entered my states chilli eating competition and won.

Then came 5th in all of Australia.

So I don't think it's the restaurants fault that I don't find my food hot enough haha

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

tell me about it! i ordered a cherry π and received three and some bits of cherries instead!

that's totes the fault of the guy who can't understand what i mean when i'm trying to be esoteric!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

I'm a bit of an OCD logic nerd. When I eat something, I need to immediately gulp down another 7 otherwise I could never have ate them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Hey man, I'm sorry... If they handed you a measurable quantity of cherries then you didn't get what you asked for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Nah they just handed them 3&1/7 cherries. It’s a reasonable approximation

[–] [email protected] 286 points 1 day ago (52 children)

Yeah, that's on the customer. If you write that you want a bunch of fuckin cherries then you're getting a bunch of fuckin cherries. Now go eat the pile of cherries you ordered.

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