Talk:86

(Damn -- I thought I'd be the first on this one. Wiktionary is starting to fill out a bit)

As many will know, the American short-order food business has a rich argot all its own, with some terms making it to general usage (or perhaps having started there), notably 86, blue-plate special java, joe and moo juice. Here's someone's list, which looks fairly plausible though it repeats a common but dubious etymology for "86": http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/bl081897a.htm

Atlantic article on word history
Atlantic article of 2018-06-23 entitled "A Restaurant ‘Eighty-Sixed’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders. What Does That Mean?" elaborates on some of the history of the term. They trace it back to 1933 at least, with usage in soda fountains. - TheDaveRoss  01:00, 26 June 2018 (UTC)