Bomboloni (Italian doughnuts)
Bomboloni are Italian doughnuts, popular in Florence. These are more doughnut holes than doughnuts, filled with vanilla pastry cream, raspberry jam, or other fillings. The Italian…
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Mixed Fries (french fries + sweet potato fries)
"Mixed fries" are usually a combination of french fries and sweet potato fries, although other combinations are sometimes offered. Mixed fries became popular in American restaurants in…
“The public is right during the trends, but wrong at both ends” (Wall Street adage)
Humphrey Bancroft Neill (1895-1977), the "Vermont ruminator," was a stock market contrarian, as expressed in his book, The Art of Contrary Thinking (1954). He wrote: "The public is…
Sweet Potato Fries
Sweet potato fries (or "sweet potato french fries") became popular in American restaurants from the 1980s. The fries are prepared like french fries, and both are sometimes combined as…
“Even Napoleon had his Watergate” (Yogi Berra?)
New York City baseball player and manager Yogi Berra (1925-2015) is known for his malapropisms. "Even Napoleon had his Watergate" ("Watergate" is a mistake for…
Wire House (Wirehouse)
A "wire house" (or "wirehouse") is a brokerage house that has a communication network; originally, a "wire house" meant a brokerage house with a telegraph line or a…
“Too big to fail” (TBTF)
Entry in progress -- B.P. The Financial Services Roundtable has been called a TBTF lobbying group or the "TBTF Consortium." Similar phrases include "too big to jail," "too…
“A market that rallies on bad news could signal a bottom” (Wall Street adage)
Sometimes the stock market can rally on bad financial news. There could be several reasons for this. The first reason is that the stock market might have discounted the bad news in advance as…
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Gray's Papaya began in 1973 at Broadway and West 72nd Street, offering hot dogs and papaya juice just like the older Papaya King. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, Gray's began offering a…
“It’s not a stock market, but a market of stocks” (Wall Street saying)
An old Wall Street saying is: "It's not a stock market, but a market of stocks." This means that it's not important if the stock market (such as the Dow Jones Industrial…
Lunch Wagon
The lunch wagon (often called the "night lunch wagon" or "night owl" or "owl" because of the night hours of the business) is first cited in a Worcester (MA) newspaper…
Hawaiian Pizza (Toast Hawaii)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Hawaiian pizzaHawaiian pizza is a pizza which usually consists of a cheese and tomato base with pieces of ham and pineapple. Some versions include bacon,…
“Today a peacock, tomorrow a feather duster” (business axiom)
"Today a peacock, tomorrow a feather duster" is an old reminder that success can be fleeting. A rooster replaces the peacock in some versions of the saying. "Peacock Today,…
“He couldn’t find a Jew in the Bronx”
In the first half of the 20th century, many Jewish people escaped crowded Manhattan and took the newly built subway line to homes in the borough of the Bronx (often along its popular street, the…
Texas Roll (sushi)
The "Texas Roll" sushi roll is offered at several Japanese restaurants, but the ingredients do not appear to have been standardized. Jalapeños are often included. Sushi Zushi (Dallas…
“No bowl of borscht”
"No bowl of borscht" appears to possibly have been a short-lived New York City variant of "not chopped liver." A Southern variation of the same idea would be to compare…
“To err is human; to hedge divine” (Wall Street proverb)
"To err is human; to forgive, divine" is a famous quotation from the English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). "To err is human; to hedge (is) divine" (or, "To speculate is…
“A stock doesn’t know where it has been” or “A stock doesn’t know you own it” (Wall Street proverb)
"A stock doesn't know you own it" is a proverb that's been used by financial writer "Adam Smith" (George Goodman) in the 1960s and also investor Warren Buffett. The…
“Sell in May and go away (buy back on St. Leger’s day)” (Halloween Indicator)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Halloween indicatorThe Halloween indicator is a theory that the period from November to April inclusive has significantly stronger stock market growth on…
“You have to speculate to accumulate” (gambling proverb)
"Speculate to accumulate" (that is, "take chances to win big") appears to have started in gambling and was cited by Broadway scribe Walter Winchell by 1941. The phrase is more…