Bar Lazy W Whisky Toast
By Henry Takasan
Bar Lazy W Whisky Toast is a great thing to start off any day in the High Country.
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June 11, 2008 at 10:11 am
‘It’s three eggs up on whisky toast’—-this is a line from Tom Russells song
Navajo Rug which the band I play with cover in our reportiore. What is whisky toast? I’ve assumed that it’s bread dowsed in whisky and then fried, but of course, I’m guessing. Would be nice to know what I’m singing about.
Thanks in anticipation of enlightenment!
January 30, 2009 at 11:46 am
There’s a recipe I found for Whiskey Toast at the Bar Lazy W website. It’s about the only one I found… Hope this helps, I know it did me as I love the song Navajo Rug!!!
July 18, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I’d heard Jerry Jeff Walker’s version and asked the same question. Given Jerry Jeff’s checkered past, I figured it could mean just about ANYTHING!
The answer was surprisingly tame, and it was buried, as is so much, at wikipedia. Their article on diner lingo, or diner slang, cleared it up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diner_lingo It’s a good article, and a good read.
Short version, in the golden age of diners, before computerized ordering systems, the waiter or waitress would call out orders to the cooks. And to stave off boredom and to make the orders memorable, they came up with their own slang. If you hear the waiter asking for “Noah’s boy”, well, that’s Ham. And Whiskey toast? That’s rye bread. There are two major possibilities for that name. One is, they make whiskey from rye. Also, rye bread tends to be browner than most breads, so it looks more like whiskey.
Anyway, there it is. Rye bread.
Mike