FOOD
bread and water
the most minimal meal possible; a prison meal. (Usually used in reference to being in prison or jail. Fixed order.)Max knew that if he got in trouble again it would be at least a year on bread and water.This dinner is terrible again. I would rather have bread and water! Why don’t we ever have pizza?
buy something to go and get something to go; have something to go; order something to go
to purchase food to take out; to make a purchase of cooked food to be taken elsewhere to be eaten.Let's stop here and buy six hamburgers to go.I didn't thaw anything for dinner. Let's stop off on the way home and get something to go.No, I don't want to sit at a table. I'll just have a cup of coffee to go.
coffee and Danish
a cup of coffee and a Danish sweet roll. (Fixed order.)A few of us like to have coffee and Danish before we start work.Coffee and Danish is not my idea of a good breakfast!
coffee, tea, or milk
a choice of beverage. (Originally used by airline personnel when offering something to drink to the passengers. Fixed order.)She asked me if I wanted coffee, tea, or milk, and I chose just plain water.Would you prefer coffee, tea, or milk to go with your meal?
half-and-half
a liquid that is half milk and half cream.Harry would always pour half-and-half on his breakfast cereal in spite of what his doctor told him.There is less fat in half-and-half than there is in cream.
juice and cookies
trivial and uninteresting snacks or refreshments. (Fixed order.)The party was not much. They might as well have served juice and cookies.After juice and cookies, we all went back into the meeting room for another hour of talk, talk, talk.
stick to one's ribs
[for food] to last long and fortify one well; [for food] to sustain one even in the coldest weather.This oatmeal ought to stick to your ribs. You need something hearty on a cold day like this.I don't want soup! I want something that will stick to my ribs.
surf and turf
fish and beef; lobster and beef. (A type of meal incorporating both expensive seafood and an expensive cut of beef. Refers to the sea and to the pasture. Fixed order.)Walter ordered the surf and turf, but Alice ordered only a tiny salad.No surf and turf for me. I want fish and fish alone.
FOOD - COOKING
done to a T and done to a turn
cooked just right.Yummy! This meat is done to a T.I like it done to a turn, not too done and not too raw.
FOOD - GLUTTONY
one's eyes are bigger than one's stomach
[for one] to take more food than one can eat.I can't eat all this. I'm afraid that my eyes were bigger than my stomach.Try to take less food. Your eyes are bigger than your stomach at every meal.
FOOD - STORAGE
put something up
to preserve and store food by canning or freezing.This year we'll put some strawberries up.We put up a lot of food every year.
blood
n. catsup.Somebody pass the blood.How 'bout some blood for my burger?
burger
n. a hamburger sandwich; a hamburger patty.You ready for another burger?He's cooking burgers out on the grill right now.
burnt offering
n. burned food; a badly cooked meal.Everything I try to cook turns out to be a burnt offering.All I have to look forward to after work is a burnt offering.
carbos
n. carbohydrates. (Bodybuilding.)You need more protein and less carbos.Too many carbos will make you fat.
cat-soup
n. catsup; ketchup.Do you want some cat-soup on your burger?No, I never use cat-soup.
chow
n. food.I need some chow before I go out and shovel snow.What time is chow served around here?
chuck
n. food.Man, this chuck is okay.Who cooked this chuck, man? It's garbage!
coffee and
n. coffee and a doughnut or a pastry.I'll have coffee and.We stopped at a little shop for coffee and.
dagwood (sandwich)
n. a tall sandwich with many layers of food. (From the comic strip character Dagwood by Chick Young.)I really like to make an oldfashioned dagwood sandwich every now and then.How many calories are there in a dagwood, on the average?
double-decker
n. a sandwich of two layers.He put away a giant double-decker and a glass of milk.How can anybody eat a double-decker that is so thick?
geedunk
n. ice cream.Let's go out and get some geedunk for dessert.Pineapple on chocolate geedunk? Yuck!
goober-grease
n. peanut butter.Pass me some of that goober-grease, will ya?This goober-grease is stale.
grass
n. lettuce; salad greens.I could use a little more grass in my diet.Do you want some dressing on your grass?
grub
n. food.Hey, this grub's pretty good.What time's grub?
hamburg
n. a hamburger.I'd like a couple of hamburgs and a shake.This hamburg is as greasy as they come.
hen fruit
n. hen's eggs.I always have hen fruit for breakfast.There's nothing like hen fruit and bacon.
junk food
n. food that is typically high in fats and salt and low in nutritional value; food from a fast-food restaurant.Stay away from junk food. It's bad for you.Junk food tastes good no matter how greasy it is.
lube
n. butter.Pass the lube, will ya, huh?We're outa lube.
mayo
n. mayonnaise.You want mayo or mustard?I'll take both mayo and mustard, thank you.
munchies
n. snacks, such as potato chips; any casual food.What kind of munchies are we going to have?The munchies at the party were great!
murphy
n. a potato.I spent half my tour of duty peeling murphies.Look, this murphy looks like my mother-in-law.
mystery meat
n. any unidentified meat. (Collegiate.)What is the mystery meat tonight?There are no hints as to what this mystery meat is—except its strange pinkish color.
nosh
n. a snack. (From German via Yiddish.)How about a little nosh?I don't want a nosh. I need a whole meal.
OJ
n. orange juice. (Initialism.)I like to have a big glass of fresh OJ every morning.The price of OJ is going to go up again soon.
rabbit food
n. lettuce; salad greens.I think I need a little more rabbit food in my diet.Rabbit food tends to have a lot of vitamin C.
red hot
n. a hot dog; a frankfurter.“Get your red hots right here!” shouted the vendor.In Chicago they never eat red hots with catsup. Imagine!
salt horse
n. corned or salted beef.We had salt horse on toast for dinner.We made spaghetti sauce with salt horse because that was the only meat we could find.
scarf
n. food.I want some good scarf. This stuff stinks.No more fried scarf for me.
scoff
n. food.This scoff is gross!I want some good old American scoff.
scream
n. ice cream. (Collegiate.)How about a nice big dish of scream?It's too cold for scream. Ask me in June.
sinker
n. a doughnut.This sinker must be four days old.All our sinkers are brought in fresh on Monday.
slumgullion
n. a meat stew; any food.What is this slumgullion tonight? It looks like what we had last night, only thinner.This is the best slumgullion I've ever had—which puts it right up there with dishwater.
spot of lunch
n. a small amount of lunch.How about a spot of lunch?I had a spot of lunch at my desk, thanks.
spud
n. a potato.I'd like a few more spuds.Mashed spuds are the best of all.
square (meal)
n. a good and nutritious meal. (Always with a quantifier when square is used without meal.)I need three squares a day—at least.The old soak looks like he could use a square meal.
submarine and sub
n. a long sandwich containing many different foods.He ordered a submarine, but he couldn't finish it.He took what was left of the sub home with him.
three squares
n. three balanced meals a day.I was glad to get back home to three squares.If I could limit myself to three squares, I could lose some weight.
too rich for someone's blood
mod. too high in fat content for one's diet.This dessert is too rich for my blood.Most ice cream is too rich for my blood.
trotters
n. pig's feet.Trotters are okay if you can't tell what they are.Pickled trotters are good in the summer.
tube steak
n. a frankfurter or a wiener.Are we having tube steak again for dinner?I could live on tube steak. Nothing is better!
veg
n. a vegetable.You want a veg with this?That's not my favorite veg.
veggy and veggie
n. a vegetable. (Usually plural.)Do you want any veggies with this?No veggies for me.
weenie
n. a wiener (sausage), as in a hot dog (sandwich).They gave us some yucky beans with weenies in them.It's weenies again for dinner.
worms
n. noodles; spaghetti.Let's have worms tonight.Are the worms ready for the sauce yet?
worms in blood
n. spaghetti in tomato sauce.We're having worms in blood for dinner tonight.I'm getting tired of worms in blood every Wednesday.
za
n. pizza. (Collegiate.)I'm gonna spring for some za.Who wants some of this za?