cheap and dirty girl scout According to Anna Hale '08, a drink made of "chocolate milk from the bookstore and peppermint schnapps from Rite Aid" (current home of the state liquor store in Mount Vernon).
elephant scabs Breaded veal cutlets (from the 1960s). See also white-out, below.
extendo Sounds like the name for a superhero, but it's actually the official term for the period outside normal meal hours when students can still come into the dining hall and fix themselves a snack. Currently it exists in the form of "extendo lunch," running from 1:15 to 4:45 p.m. Most popular extendo choices: "creative" sandwiches, toasted on the panini grill; also cold cereal. Who invented "extendo"? The term goes back more than twenty years.
Igor In the 1950s, the name for the garbage disposal where you dumped your leftover food. As far as we know, today's Peirce Hall gourmets have not yet named the futuristic machinery that mashes their leftovers into a slurry and sends it whizzing through pipes toward a basement tank and an ultimate destiny as compost. Maybe . . . Hal?
PBLM The famous peanut butter, lettuce, and mayonnaise sandwich, sold in the Peirce Hall Coffee Shop as well as in the dorms by roving snack-sellers. (See also sangy man.) Lew Weingard '51, who ran a campus sandwich business until the College shut him down because he was hurting the Coffee Shop's evening business, says the PBLM was one of his most popular items. He remembers that his sandwiches were made by a Miss Coffin, the sister of the notable English professor Charles Coffin. See also peenie burger, below.
peenie burger Not as bad as it sounds. The peenie burger, a favorite at the Village Inn during the 1950s, was a hamburger with peanut butter.
sex pie A fairly recent coinage, referring to the "toll house pie" served in the Gund dining hall when Aramark ran the food service. The reference must be to chocolate's legendary powers as an aphrodisiac, yes? Anna Hale '08 says, simply, "If you ever tasted it, then you could understand why."
white-out An all-pale meal, as in: elephant scabs (breaded veal cutlets) covered with white sauce; mashed potatoes; yellow string beans. Culinary classics of this ilk were also affectionately called "prison foods of the gulag."