• xXSirDanglesXx@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I heard/read years ago “86ing” came from the old west referring to killing somebody. You’d take them “80 miles out” and bury them “6 feet deep.”

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        6 hours ago

        This right here is my truth. If 80 miles out & 6 feet deep is wrong, than I don’t wanna be right. Always loved this expression and origin story.

    • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yeah 86 doesn’t really mean to get rid of something. At least in my time in the restaurant industry I never heard it used that way. It just means that we were out of something.

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        2 days ago

        That was my experience as well. Though we would also refer to a banned customer as “86’d.”

        • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world
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          Same meaning in my experience. The patron is kicked out. 86’d is the past tense. ‘they have been 86’d’

          You no longer have any of that product, ingredient, or in this case customer.

        • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world
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          No, “86 the chef special” means 'kitchen is out of chef special.

          Yes, your task is to remove it from the menu.

          But you aren’t 86ing it.

          You’re marking it as 86’d because the quantity is below minimum threshold (usually zero).

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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          2 days ago

          str 86;

          str itmTo86;

          86='get rid of';

          info(strFmt('%1 %2',86,itmTo86));

          (This won’t actually work, since you can’t assign ints as variables, but whatever. It was fun)