Kevin Kruse: Confusing day for anyone who worked in a restaurant. If a menu item was 86'd...

[Dennis Donovan]

Kevin M. Kruse
‪@kevinmkruse.bsky.social‬
Really confusing day for anyone who worked in a restaurant to realize that when we were told an item on the menu had been "86'ed" that meant the kitchen staff had assassinated it in cold blood.
May 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM

Really confusing day for anyone who worked in a restaurant to realize that when we were told an item on the menu had been "86'ed" that meant the kitchen staff had assassinated it in cold blood.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T18:23:57.852Z

[JMCKUSICK]

1. Lmao

[Walleye]

2. I always thought it usually meant kicking out a guy who had drunk too much at a bar

I have never heard anything like the definition of 86’d being violent. It doesn’t matter they make up the meaning of anything out of their little minds. The accepted definition, doesn’t matter.

[fierywoman]

3. In the restaurants I worked in (late 60s to mid 70s) "86" meant that we'd run out of an item. Nothing violent.

[Pinback]

4. The only violence would be

from the five-year-old who wasn’t going to get his popcorn shrimp!

[BoRaGard]

11. Also in that era, used to say some food was spoiled and needed to be tossed in the trash

The 'spoiled and ready for the trash' reference stinks, of course ,
but decent folk everywhere would agree that it's fitting for Krasnov (R - Felon/Rapist).

[Maeve]

5. Some wannabe thugs talking 1930-40's trash slang

Might use 86 instead of "concrete galoshes" or "put the hit on him", but no, no normal person would use it that way, which says something about Don Jr ans his ilk....

[InstantGratification]

6. During my time in the AF

90% of the time, someone using the term "86 that" was telling me to throw it away. Also used interchangeably with "shit can that".

[BaronChocula]

7. If you've got super thin skin

Anything can be an assassination attempt.

[Ilsa]

8. That ought to teach that Comey feller for

such casual speech!

[kentuck]

12. That should teach everyone to be very careful about what they say...

Be vevy, vevy careful.

[hannah]

15. Why aren't they upset with

Roger Stone. Didn’t he say something horrible about Mark Kelly recently.

[Solly Mack]

9. lol

[stillcool]

10. yeah...and instead of your cut-off

no more cocktails for you, the bartender kills the guy?

[NNadir]

13. That's funny!

[irisblue]

14. The 'Friday Night Seafood soup' had a

basis is all

[IcyPeas]

16. It means throw it out... I've worked in offices - not food services - and that was the meaning there

It was NEVER a violent term. And how many threats were made about Hillary, threats made on Jan 6 about Pelosi, Pence etc. Now he's making threats against Bruce Springsteen. Fuck their outrage.

8647!

[UTUSN]

17. K&R