Alphebetical for "t"

Tin Roof Sundae

The "tin roof sundae" usually contains peanuts and chocolate sauce on top of vanilla ice cream. "Tin roof sunday" is cited in a 1907 Mansfield (OH) newspaper; "tin roof…

Tip Sag (pizza slice tip sag)

"Tip sag" is the degree to which a slice of Neapolitan pizza sags. The tip is usually loaded with hot, gooey cheese. On the pizza blog Serious Eats -- Slice, Adam Kuban wrote on May 18,…

Tipsy Tuesday

"Tipsy Tuesday” is a drinking slang name for a day of the week. "Tipsy Tuesdays" was cited in print in 1981 and "Tipsy Tuesday" in 1982. Other slang names for days of the…

Tiramisunami (tiramisu + tsunami)

"Tiramisu" (a coffee-flavoured Italian dessert) and "tsunami" (a series of waves in a water body) are two foreign language words that are sometimes combined to form…

Tits-for-Tots (strip club “pole tax”)

"Tits for tots" (a pun on "tit-for-tat") was the nickname pf a proposed 2004 Texas strip club tax that would, supposedly, have raised revenue for the education of Texas…

Tlacoyo

Tlacoyos are antojitos (appetizers or snacks) that are popular in Mexico, but have been cited in restaurants in the United States since only the 1990s. "Tlacoyo" is from the Nahuatl words…

Tlayuda or Clayuda (Oaxacan “Mexican pizza”)

Tlayuda (also spelled "clayuda") is a specialty of Oaxaca, Mexico. Tlayuda/clayuda refers to a large corn tortilla, but it also refers to that same tortilla when topped with beans,…

Toast (sports slang)

Elvis Patterson was a cornerback who first played for the New York Giants football team in 1984. Giants coach Bill Parcells nicknamed him "Toast" that year because Patterson frequently…