Hippie Roll or Hippy Roll (Eppie Roll or Eppy Roll)
The origin or the "hippie roll" (or "hippy roll") in uncertain, but it was served in some Italian restaurants in New York City in the 1960s-1970s. The term "hippie" is…
Hoagie (sandwich)
Entry in progress -- B.P. The long list of the names of sandwiches served on long rolls includes blimpie, bomber, Cuban (medianoche), Dagwood, garibaldi, gondola, grinder, hero, Italian,…
HOBO (ham on bagel omelet)
HOBO (ham on bagel omelet, BOBO (bacon), SOBO (sausage) and TOBO or TURBO (turkey) are breakfast sandwiches that are served with cheese and potatoes; a roll or a wrap often replaces the bagel. The…
Hoboken Special (pineapple soda and chocolate ice cream)
A "Hoboken Special" is old restaurant slang for an order of pineapple soda and chocolate ice cream. Columbia University's Harold W. Bentley first recorded the term in…
Hockey Puck (a burger, especially a hamburger cooked “well done”)
A round burger (such as a hamburger or a turkey burger or a veggie burger) can resemble a hockey puck. A burger cooked "well done" is often blackened and tough as a hockey puck to eat.…
Hocto Dog or Hoctodog (octopus hot dog)
A "hocto dog" or "hoctodog" is an octopus hot dog. "Hoctodog" has been cited in print since at least 2007, when it described a hot dog cut into strips to resemble an…
Hodger
A "hodger" is a guest who eats most of the host's food and drinks most of the host's drinks. "Hodger" has been listed in The Online Slang Dictionary since 2002 and is…
Hoffman House (cocktail)
The Hoffman House Hotel (located near Madison Square Park at Broadway and Twenty-second Street) had a celebrated bar in the 1880s and 1890s; the structure was destroyed in 1915 (just before…
Hokey Pokey (ice cream)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Hokey pokey (ice cream)Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream in New Zealand, consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee.…
Holiday Pounds
"Holiday pounds" are the extra weight gained from eating too well on holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. The term "holiday pounds" is used most often in advertisements…
Hollar-peño (holler + jalapeño)
Jalapeño peppers are hot, and some have called them "holler-peño" or "hollar-peño." "jack house in the box with curley fries and some hollarpeno popperz" was posted…
Holler-peño (holler + jalapeño)
Jalapeño peppers are hot, and some have called them "holler-peño" or "hollar-peño." "jack house in the box with curley fries and some hollarpeno popperz" was posted…
Honeymoon Salad (lettuce alone and no dressing)
A 'honeymoon salad," as the old joke has it, is "lettuce alone" ("let us alone"). "Honeymoon salad" ("lettuce alone") is cited in print since 1925.…
Horseshoe Sandwich
The "horseshoe" sandwich consists of Welsh rarebit (or Welsh rabbit) cheese sauce over an open-faced sandwich, such as ham or hamburger on toasted bread. The dish is then covered with…
Hot and Sour Soup
"Hot and sour soup" is a popular Chinese restaurant menu item that's been cited in print since at least 1961. Joyce Chen (1917-1994) is often given credit for popularizing hot and…
Hot Dog (Polo Grounds myth & a full etymology)
The word "hot dog" was not coined at the Polo Grounds, at Madison Square Garden, or even in New York City. This has been exhaustively detailed in a Gerald Cohen, David Shulman and Barry…
Hot Dog & Mustard
No one knows who the first person was who added mustard to a hot dog. The hot dog & mustard combination was popular by at least 1851, when Charles Dickens wrote about it. Google BooksHousehold…
Hot Dog Diplomacy
Can hot dog eating among nations promote world peace? in June 1939, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited the king and queen of England to eat hot dogs at Hyde Park, New York. The term…
Hot Dog of the Sea (surimi nickname)
Imitation crab meat (such as surimi) has been called the "hot dog of the sea" -- it may taste good, but what's really in it? "Her product was imitation crab meat -- a veritable…
Hot Dog Roll (Hot Dog Bun; Vienna Roll)
The origin or the hot dog roll has never been recorded. According to myth, the hot dog roll was born at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. The hot dog vendor had run out of the white gloves that…