Big Apple Shake (Johnny Rockets, 2005)
Johnny Rockets is a 1950s-style American chain restaurant, specializing in hamburgers, french fries, shakes and malts. The "Big Apple" shake was introduced by at least 2005 -- a vanilla…
Big Cheese
"Big cheese" was a popular slang term in the 1900s, almost two decades before the "Big Apple" became popular in the 1920s. "Big cheese" is cited in print from at least…
Big Ugly Fat Fuckers Eating Together (“buffet” backronym)
The word "buffet" is not an acronym, but it has been given the jocular backronym (back acronym) of "Big Ugly Fat Fuckers/Fellows/Folks/Freaks Eating Together" since at least the…
BILF (bacon or burger variant of MILF)
BILF is a bacon or burger variation of the sexual slang term MILF. The "BILF" bacon version was put on T-shirts by January 2008. In March 2009, Top Chef judge Padma Lakshmi made a…
Billy Goat Date Cake (Billy Goat Cookies)
"Billy Goats" are date cookies or date cakes. Some versions claim that the name comes from a time when a woman put the dish on a window sill to cool -- where it was eaten by the…
Birch Beer
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Birch beerBirch beer is a carbonated soft drink made from herbal extracts, usually from birch bark. It has a taste similar to root beer, with a slightly minty…
Birdseed or Bird Seed (children’s trail mix)
Birdseed (also written as "bird seed") is a mixture of seeds used to feed birds. By World War I, "birdseed" was used as slang (especially military canteen slang) for cereal that…
Bismarck (pastry)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Berliner (doughnut)In Ontario and the prairie western provinces of Canada, as well as parts of the Midwest and West in the US, such a round jelly- or…
Black and Bleu Salad
"Black and Bleu Salad" became popular in the 2000s at chain restaurants such as O'Charley's, Beef 'O' Brady's and Quiznos. The salad often contains sliced sirloin…
Black and White (shake or soda)
A "black and white" is chocolate syrup and vanilla ice cream, in a soda or a shake. 14 August 1927, New York Times, "The Ice Cream Habit Grows," pg. XX3:The business of…
Black Bottom Cake (Black Bottom Pie)
Entry in progress -- B.P. wiseGEEKWhat is a Black Bottom Pie? A black bottom pie is any pie with a crust made of crushed chocolate wafers or cookies. Fillings for black bottomed pies are usually…
Black Cow or Brown Cow (root beer float)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Ice cream soda (variations)Root beer floatAlso known as a "brown cow" "black cow", the root beer float is traditionally made with vanilla…
Black Diamond (black truffle nickname)
Truffles -- especially black truffles such as Périgord truffles -- have been dubbed "black diamonds." French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) supposedly called black…
Black Russian (cocktail)
The "Black Russian" cocktail contains vodka and coffee liqueur (such as Kahlua or Tia Maria). The cocktail is cited in print from October 25, 1956, when this was printed in the San…
Black-and-White (cookie)
The famous black-and-white "cookie" is actually a "cake." The black-and-white was re-popularized on the television show Seinfeld in the 1990s. Unfortunately, I haven't…
Blackout Cake
The "Blackout Cake" is the famed product of Brooklyn's Ebinger's Bakery, which began in 1898 and closed its doors in 1972. It's not clear when this was called…
Blimpie (sandwich)
The first "Blimpie Base" (later just "Blimpie") sandwich shop opened in Hoboken, New Jersey, on April 4, 1964. The shop quickly franchised, especially in the New York City-area,…
Blintze (Blintz; Blin)
The "blintze" (or "blintz," usually plural as "blintzes," a diminutive from the Russian "blin" for pancake or crêpe) was served on the Jewish Lower East…
Blisters on My Sisters (egg dish, similar to huevos rancheros)
"Blisters on My Sisters" is an egg dish served at Shopsin's (located in Essex Market, but formerly on Carmine Street). Kenny Shopsin named the dish after a lyric in a song by Frank…
Blondie (Blond Brownie or Blonde Brownie)
A "blondie" is a "blond brownie" (or "blonde brownie"), a light-colored brownie. Chocolate is replaced by brown sugar and vanilla extract to give them the lighter…