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Summer Celebrations 1: Family Fun on Little-Known Holidays
Wacky Food Names
Soda jerks were workers who would stand behind a counter, often in a drug store, and fill orders for customers. As orders were taken, the soda jerk would call out their own words for those items. Can you guess what was ordered by the name given to it by soda jerks? Read the word to your kids, let them guess, then tell them the real answer.
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Soda Jerk Term
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What Was Ordered
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Cow juice
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Glass of milk
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A-pie
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Apple pie
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Fly cake
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Raisin cake
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Mud
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Chocolate ice cream
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Patch
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Strawberry
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White Cow
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Vanilla milk shake
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Dog Biscuit
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Cracker
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Bucket of hail
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Glass of ice
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Glob
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Plain sundae
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Mug of murk
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Coffee
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Black Cow
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Root beer float
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Black Stick
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Chocolate ice cream cone
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Barrel of red mud
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Strawberry milkshake
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House boat
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Banana split
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Dog soup
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Water
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Other words for water: chaser of “Adam’s ale,” “city juice” and “tin roof” (as
in “on the house”)
Having a make-your-own-sundae night
at your house? Use my list on the Mountain
Man Menu or make up your
own strange names for the toppings.
— Bruce Van Patter
Source: Paul Dickson’s The Great American Ice Cream Book (New
York: Atheneum, 1973) pp. 102-108
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