Adam and Eve on a Log
I was listening to Tom Waits' The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napaleone's Pizza House), enjoying the diner setting in the lyrics. 'Pigs in a blanket, sixty-nine cents', okay I know what 'pigs in a blanket' are. 'Eggs - roll 'em over', that's eggs over easy. Then there is 'Adam and Eve on a log'. What the heck is that?
Through the wonders of Google, a group of swing dancers from Washington D.C. have saved the day by compiling Diner Talk. Adam and Eve on a log are two poached eggs with link sausage, but there are plenty of other short order cook gems like 'Bowl of Red', 'Cats Heads and Easy Diggins', 'Eve With a Moldy Lid' and 'Zeppelins In A Fog'. Somewhere in this world, there is a short order grill near the railroad tracks where it always lightly rains, where these phrases are alive and well.
