I was thinking that today is supposedly the Caesar Salad's 99th birthday (anyone else have weird, random food thoughts?), and part of the origin was the restaurant absolutely slammed, running out of food, so it was made out of necessity. But that led me to the term '86'....
/u/wildbill88 80 miles out 6 feet down
/u/ogbubbleberry I was taught that back in the day in NYC the term referred to pier 86. They would throw bodies off this pier to dispose of them. It became slang to “86” someone was to take them for a ride to the pier and the term carried over from there.
/u/Alternative-Camel-25 The one I know (allegedly) was a man tried to kill himself by throwing himself out of a window on the 86th floor but got blown back in on the 68th. So something is out of stock (86'd) but restocked and it will be 68'd P. S. In the hospitality trade for over 40 years, if that makes a difference.
/u/Acceptable-Seesaw653 Actually, it actually refers to a time during prohibition when they were illegally distributing and selling alcohol at a specific building, and 86 it was a code costumers used to let everyone know to exit thru a specific door of the of the building that was rarely used, so it made for a great escape route during a potential raid, and the address on that door they were to exit thru, was “86”…..And another cool reference about it is that a coffin is 8 feet long and 6 feet under. So in the restaurants when we run out of a product, we 86 it. It’s done. Its dead. It’s gone….Theres a lot of restaurant lingo and terms that they use in the industry.
