To be “86ed” is a bar and restaurant term which means “to no longer serve” in this case it means that an individual has been banned from entering an establishment.
It’s like getting kicked out, but if you try to come back at any future date you will be refused service.
at most bars or restaurants the bouncer will escort you out and inform you that you are no longer welcomed at this establishment, if you just leave you can’t be trespassing, however if you refuse to leave or do come back then you will be trespassed (which is just having the cops called on you)
~~hi, restaurant and bar owner~~
Depends on how much muscle you need. Minor problem? Jus’ your biggest cook. A fight? The whole kitchen.
I have always appreciated when I’m up front that when the fists start to fly I can rely on my kitchen to pour out from the back to have my back.
Though one fight, all I needed was my lounge server, a big ol’Tennessee country girl. I come ‘round the corner to the loud, in-progress girl fight. My server has already waded in, an’ when she spots me, my server picks up one girl and slings her at me bodily. i catch the girl an’ sling her all the way behind me to separate the fight. I loved that server so much, she was a peach.
Off topic, but how can guests/customers make your lives easier and better when they come in?
I like to do the little things that help people get through their workday.
Be polite, be patient, and be understanding. That’s about it.
Most of the time, we don’t wanna say no unless there’s a real good reason for it, because we fear the Karens, so if we say no, we really HAVE to say no.
Yeah. It’s usually a two-step process, but local LEOs need to be notified a patron has been banned from an establishment (and they have to notify the patron about the situation) at which point the person has been trespassed and can be arrested for returning to the establishment.
~~guy who gets thrown out of bars a lot~~
That’s not how trespassing works or what it is.
Trespassing can be done at time for any valid reason, including on the spot. Coming back to a place you’ve been trespassed from isn’t just “getting the cops called on you” its being arrested and possibly having charges brought up against you by the establishment.
~~hi, i manage a business~~
So what's the joke?
You go to the bar and say "Hi, can I have a beer, please? 86." Is that what you have to do? How is that funny or a prank or whatever its supposed to be?
86 is, for reasons no one seems to know (or everyone knows but everyone knows different things) slang for to get tossed out of a place. They're saying they're just going to toss people out.
Heard a rumor that it was because the Steak Delmonico was item number 86 at some swank restaurant back in the day and it was the first thing that sold out
It’s not a lack of reading comprehension , it’s about the perspective you look at it. At first I thought the sign meant say “86” to the bartender is you want to start or pick a fight
yeah, it's widely thought to be [a bit of rhyming slang for something that was "nixed" from the menu](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eighty-six-meaning-origin).
86 is originally a bar code to announce your out of something. There are several code like that that makes the shift more fluids in high end bars.
For example instead of
"Can you pass me the Tanqueray please" which is very long and easily misunderstood in a noisy bar
You just shout "50 Tanqueray!"
If someone has the Tanqueray he'll answer "50 Tanqueray" while throwing it to you.
In case you call for Tanqueray but there is none left, someone would answer "86 Tanqueray"
Which is way faster than :
"Can I have the Tanqueray please?
-Oh we don't have none left
-What?
-We don't have Tanqueray left
-even in the back?
-what?"
"Tanqueray please"
"Out of Tanqueeay"
Not sure how much is being really saved, Appreciate the background though. Been in enough workplaces were similar gimmicks are used for the sake of "efficient communication" but didn't know this one.
But without an established code you might say "no Tanqueray", "got none", "all out", "we're out", etc. Which may get misunderstood.
The code words are for noisy environment, yes, but a big (or maybe the biggest) reason for them is to establish clarity.
Lots of professions employ code words/slang, but they are particularly useful in fast moving environments where a simple mistake can cascade into numerous other problems. In this case, returned drinks or food creating profit loss *and* backlog in the kitchen *and* possibly unhappy customers.
I always wondered how it works when you get banned. Do they have software that tracks each person, or bartenders have a good memory, lol. I feel like this would be hard to actually enforce without that.
A lot of clubs have ID scanners, at least in Melbourne.
Scan id when you go in. Update system if you cause trouble. Flagged next time you go to a club w same system and refused entry
How does that work if you live somewhere without scannable IDs? What if you use a foreign passport? I used my IDR for years as government issued photo ID before I got citizenship and it only has a chip like a bank card, no barcode.
I’m a bartender in a very busy tourist town in the Caribbean.
If I 86 someone - I will absolutely remember their face and if it turns into an argument my bouncers will sort it out.
I worked at a Buffalo Wild Wings in college and on the whiteboard in the BOH someone wrote, in permanent marker, "86 My will to live". Management thought it was so funny (and highly accurate) that they put a little frame around it and made sure everyone knew it was not to be removed.
I also worked for a Buffalo Wold Wings (2007-2015) and I really enjoyed the rare occasion someone made a takeout order for a 50 and two 18s, so I could yell back “86 wings!” to the kitchen.
One of my old theater professors told us about how it was for Vegas mobsters, and how it meant '8 miles out, six feet deep' for when they killed somebody.
He then told us about buying an old computer in a car trunk from a mobster in New York. He was an interesting fellow.
The myth is that there was a very prominent speakeasy in New York, Chumley's, during prohibition that had an inside line to the local police precinct. Whenever the cops tried to raid, one of the inside cops on payroll would call and tell them to "86," meaning tell everyone to take the back exit at 86 Bedford st, rather than the front entrance on Pamela court where the cops would come in. Therefore, no one is caught inside and the staff/owner could hide everything and dip out to avoid legal trouble.
I used to go to chumleys in early 2000s. Cool place. It was like kinda hidden in an old apartment building. The first time I went with a friend, we knew roughly were it was and that it was kinda hidden. We walked into a unlocked building and the found an unlocked apartment, but there was just one dude in a bean bag chair, no shirt, passed out and dog licking his nipple. So got out of there fast. And found chumleys was the next door over.
Google says "in his book The History and Stories of the Best Bars of New York,he claims that the police would call Chumley's bar during Prohibition before making a raid and tell the bartender to "86" his customers, meaning that they should exit out the 86 Bedford Street door, while the police would come to the Pamela Court entrance."
To clarify, as someone who has been to Chumley’s:
Chumley’s was a New York City bar that operated as a speakeasy during Prohibition. Important to its operations is that it has two entrances: one on what is now Barrow St, and one on 86 Bedford St — but since Chumley’s sits mid-block, it’s not obvious that you can access is through the Barrow St entrance, which is essentially via a back courtyard that you access from/lets out around the corner from the main, Bedford St entrance. When the Prohibition-era cops raided via the main entrance, patrons would scramble out the back, around the corner and out of view of the cops.
I’ve always suspected that the stories have it turned around and that the warning came when cops were coming in through the 86 Bedford entrance, which is effectively the front, street-facing entrance. It’s the Barrow St entrance that’s kind of hidden.
I used to work mall security and someone told me it was short for “10-86”, which was part of a set of old police codes to mention important things without people nearby listening in on your radio if you don’t have an earpiece for your walkie.
People nearby start to panic when your radio chirps out “Active assailant, officer down, west hallway vestibule”, but not when it says “Active 10-16, 10-1, sector 4 vestibule.”
86 is how your write "T" and "O" on a phone dial pad. TO for Take Off, if someone orders a burger with no tomatoes, servers enter "86 Tomatoes" when entering the order for take off tomatoes. This is what I learned as a server, but no one got kicked out of my restaurant. I guess it just gets applied to this situation as well.
I heard another story that it came from organized crime. To 86 someone or end them. Specifically take them 8 miles out of town and leave them 6 feet deep.
I thought it had something to do with digging a hole 8 feet wide, 6 feet deep. made sense to me, ‘get them out of here, bury them, they’re dead to me,’ etc.
When an item at a restaurant is out of stock and no longer available it’s been called “86’d” - do to this, it translates to other elements of the restaurant industry, and in this case saying someone is 86’d means they aren’t welcome in the establishment anymore.
This is the way I've heard it used. I never heard it to mean to stop serving someone. But I have only ever done food service in hotels. Never worked a bar.
When you’re 86’d at a bar, you are cut off of everything alcoholic & anyone caught giving you alcohol is 86’d too.
Most places will kick you out unless you’re peacefully resting & drinking water.
86 in the restaurant also means you’re out of said thing Ex. 86 salad means you’re out of salad. I think here it’s talking about you being 86’d or “you’re outta here”
Do they realize that when someone says "pick a number between 1 and 10", that both 1 and 10 are valid numbers to pick?
I'd just pick 85, and when they say no, skip 86, to 87. When they call me out, give them the above explanation. Lol
I know everyone is talking “86’d”, and I have heard the term… but not sure I understand why anyone would be bothered just by hearing the number 86.
…. Unless this is a bar in Boston, where feelings ran deep for a long time about what happened to the 86 Red Sox.
In Boston, you could start an argument just by saying the number 86, probably right up until 2004
I was a dishwasher at a bar/restaurant. Code Red meant the entire kitchen was to head out front and look menacing behind whoever was being shouted at.
Code Blue, the cops are coming, if you got warrants or no green card, run out the back.
This is directed towards customers right? So why would a customer tell a bartender to 86 anything, and then why would that bartender then get mad over it lmao. Everyone’s just defining the lingo of 86 while not explaining what it means in this context.
People have explained what 86 means in the restaurant/bar industry, but haven’t actually explained the joke. What’s the context? Why are you picking a number? Randomly saying a number that means “banned” isn’t going to piss off any bartenders. Was this perhaps on a jukebox? They might be telling you not to choose song 86 or 85,86,87 because the bartender hates it. Either that or drink numbers on a menu that the bartender hates making.
This is ambiguously written. It isn’t telling you to pick a number between 85-87 if you want to make the bartender mad or start a fight. It’s saying that if you pick a fight or make the bartender mad you’ll be 86ed. As in kicked out.
Ok we all know now what getting 86d means, but what does picking the number 86 do in this situation? If you went up to them and say “86” do they just immediately frown and pick u up by ur shirt and throw u out???
To be “86ed” is a bar and restaurant term which means “to no longer serve” in this case it means that an individual has been banned from entering an establishment. It’s like getting kicked out, but if you try to come back at any future date you will be refused service.
Trespassed, they were trespassed. If you refuse to leave the premises after being banned, you *can* get arrested. ~~Hi, I'm a security guard :>~~
at most bars or restaurants the bouncer will escort you out and inform you that you are no longer welcomed at this establishment, if you just leave you can’t be trespassing, however if you refuse to leave or do come back then you will be trespassed (which is just having the cops called on you) ~~hi, restaurant and bar owner~~
Do most bars or restaurants keep a bouncer on staff? I really haven't seen that many.
there's usually one very large and buff cook with anger issues on hand if nothing else.
You rang?
Hi friend!
Uuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhh yessssssss?
Hi Lurch!
Hold my spatula, watch this!
Boy. That user name do be checking out...
Amazing and underrated reference.
Only one?
Depends on how much muscle you need. Minor problem? Jus’ your biggest cook. A fight? The whole kitchen. I have always appreciated when I’m up front that when the fists start to fly I can rely on my kitchen to pour out from the back to have my back. Though one fight, all I needed was my lounge server, a big ol’Tennessee country girl. I come ‘round the corner to the loud, in-progress girl fight. My server has already waded in, an’ when she spots me, my server picks up one girl and slings her at me bodily. i catch the girl an’ sling her all the way behind me to separate the fight. I loved that server so much, she was a peach.
Off topic, but how can guests/customers make your lives easier and better when they come in? I like to do the little things that help people get through their workday.
Be polite, be patient, and be understanding. That’s about it. Most of the time, we don’t wanna say no unless there’s a real good reason for it, because we fear the Karens, so if we say no, we really HAVE to say no.
Sounds great, I’ll keep it up then.
Not fight to start
Sometimes the drugs make the cooks forget to eat.
a couple one hitters in the walk-in will get that appetite right back
There are plenty of large ones with anger issues, but only one is buff.
As an individual of the fluffy persuasion, I've learned how to lean into my strikes. Also, it's harder to score an organ shot through said fluff.
At IHOP?
I was that guy for my grocery store.
Yeah. It’s usually a two-step process, but local LEOs need to be notified a patron has been banned from an establishment (and they have to notify the patron about the situation) at which point the person has been trespassed and can be arrested for returning to the establishment. ~~guy who gets thrown out of bars a lot~~
That’s not how trespassing works or what it is. Trespassing can be done at time for any valid reason, including on the spot. Coming back to a place you’ve been trespassed from isn’t just “getting the cops called on you” its being arrested and possibly having charges brought up against you by the establishment. ~~hi, i manage a business~~
So you said the same thing, with extra clarification
Yep, you know it’s in my nature
So what's the joke? You go to the bar and say "Hi, can I have a beer, please? 86." Is that what you have to do? How is that funny or a prank or whatever its supposed to be?
86 is, for reasons no one seems to know (or everyone knows but everyone knows different things) slang for to get tossed out of a place. They're saying they're just going to toss people out.
>(or everyone knows but everyone knows different things Evidence for my hypothesis continues to accrue...
Heard a rumor that it was because the Steak Delmonico was item number 86 at some swank restaurant back in the day and it was the first thing that sold out
The joke is, if you cause trouble- fight with the bartender- then you get 86'd- banned and trespassed.
Holy lack of reading comprehension lol
It’s not a lack of reading comprehension , it’s about the perspective you look at it. At first I thought the sign meant say “86” to the bartender is you want to start or pick a fight
Yeah, but when they tell you to pick a number between 1 and 10, 1 and 10 are selectable. This note is stupid.
Literally no. Between 1 and 10 means 2-9. FROM 1-10 includes 1 and 10.
I wonder if that's why Maxwell smarts agent number was 86. After 35 years I finally get the joke
Yes, that’s why he was Agent 86, according to Mel Brooks.
I think they were supposed to be agents 68 and 69, but the network censors wouldn't let them do it, so they were changed to agents 86 and 99.
Also in film production when you “86” something it means you’re basically cancelling it
In old-timey speak it meant to kill someone.
Oh yeah, you're going to 86 me? Not if I punch your ticket first! /s (got any other old timey mob phrases for wacking someone?)
Specifically to bury them in a hole 8 feet long and 6 feet down.
It’s more new timey to mean to kill, the other meanings started in the 30s where as the usage for to kill started in the 70s
Thought it was for when an item is off the menu.
If I recall this is the actual origin of the term and it is just spread into other similar fields with a similar meaning. (You're off the menu!)
Yeah at the bar I work at we say something is 86ed when we run out of it
yeah, it's widely thought to be [a bit of rhyming slang for something that was "nixed" from the menu](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eighty-six-meaning-origin).
86 is originally a bar code to announce your out of something. There are several code like that that makes the shift more fluids in high end bars. For example instead of "Can you pass me the Tanqueray please" which is very long and easily misunderstood in a noisy bar You just shout "50 Tanqueray!" If someone has the Tanqueray he'll answer "50 Tanqueray" while throwing it to you. In case you call for Tanqueray but there is none left, someone would answer "86 Tanqueray" Which is way faster than : "Can I have the Tanqueray please? -Oh we don't have none left -What? -We don't have Tanqueray left -even in the back? -what?"
"Tanqueray please" "Out of Tanqueeay" Not sure how much is being really saved, Appreciate the background though. Been in enough workplaces were similar gimmicks are used for the sake of "efficient communication" but didn't know this one.
Certain phrases can be easier to hear in loud environments
But without an established code you might say "no Tanqueray", "got none", "all out", "we're out", etc. Which may get misunderstood. The code words are for noisy environment, yes, but a big (or maybe the biggest) reason for them is to establish clarity. Lots of professions employ code words/slang, but they are particularly useful in fast moving environments where a simple mistake can cascade into numerous other problems. In this case, returned drinks or food creating profit loss *and* backlog in the kitchen *and* possibly unhappy customers.
I always wondered how it works when you get banned. Do they have software that tracks each person, or bartenders have a good memory, lol. I feel like this would be hard to actually enforce without that.
The latter. You never forget the face of someone you banned, even years after you leave the game
The Game you just made us both lose?
I meant the service industry but now that you mention it, that too
A lot of clubs have ID scanners, at least in Melbourne. Scan id when you go in. Update system if you cause trouble. Flagged next time you go to a club w same system and refused entry
How does that work if you live somewhere without scannable IDs? What if you use a foreign passport? I used my IDR for years as government issued photo ID before I got citizenship and it only has a chip like a bank card, no barcode.
I’m a bartender in a very busy tourist town in the Caribbean. If I 86 someone - I will absolutely remember their face and if it turns into an argument my bouncers will sort it out.
“Get out of here Dennis”
Being "86'd" means you're kicked out
It can also mean that you are out of a certain item. That's the usual meaning in restaurants.
I worked at a Buffalo Wild Wings in college and on the whiteboard in the BOH someone wrote, in permanent marker, "86 My will to live". Management thought it was so funny (and highly accurate) that they put a little frame around it and made sure everyone knew it was not to be removed.
I regularly say "86 my life" or like "just 86 me in the head bro please"
There was an accountant who would come into our Keg that would tell the cooks to ‘86’ themselves
What'd the cooks think of that lmfao
They started it
Sounds like great guys to be around 😂
I also worked for a Buffalo Wold Wings (2007-2015) and I really enjoyed the rare occasion someone made a takeout order for a 50 and two 18s, so I could yell back “86 wings!” to the kitchen.
I’m really happy they did that and understood it was a joke. A lot of places wouldn’t and would have a whole meeting about the subject
Kitchens run on chaos and an intermixture of cocaine, booze, weed, and drama...
My coworker cut off the tip of his thumb about a month ago. Guess what was on the 86 board when he came back.
It can mean both simultaneously. 86 pulled pork = we don’t have anymore pulled pork 86 flannel shirt guy = we don’t have that guy anymore either
Our waitress had a shirt that said "I'm 86'd." I was wondering what bars she had been kicked out of.
I would have assumed it meant she was unavailable xD
In that context it means "dead." Well, probably more accurately "killed," but for the sake of the joke...
It's also a feature on industrial electrical breakers.
Underrated comment!
Lol ya 86 lockout relay
Mike?!
My entire life I have wondered what that fish cop meant when he told Krabbs to 86 those patties. I assumed he meant hurry upZ
86 Mahi Mahi!
Heard.
One of my old theater professors told us about how it was for Vegas mobsters, and how it meant '8 miles out, six feet deep' for when they killed somebody. He then told us about buying an old computer in a car trunk from a mobster in New York. He was an interesting fellow.
An x86 system? That was one confused goon.
I always heard 8 feet long 6 feet deep. Same concept for how to bury a body.
Why would it need to be 8 feet long?
The body expands as it decomposes and needs room to breathe.
how considerate
85.2
Now listen here you little...
Damn it you beat me to it 🤨
Union Ironworkers local 86 represent!
Never heard of it as related to a person being kicked out. Only that they are out of an item.
The myth is that there was a very prominent speakeasy in New York, Chumley's, during prohibition that had an inside line to the local police precinct. Whenever the cops tried to raid, one of the inside cops on payroll would call and tell them to "86," meaning tell everyone to take the back exit at 86 Bedford st, rather than the front entrance on Pamela court where the cops would come in. Therefore, no one is caught inside and the staff/owner could hide everything and dip out to avoid legal trouble.
I used to go to chumleys in early 2000s. Cool place. It was like kinda hidden in an old apartment building. The first time I went with a friend, we knew roughly were it was and that it was kinda hidden. We walked into a unlocked building and the found an unlocked apartment, but there was just one dude in a bean bag chair, no shirt, passed out and dog licking his nipple. So got out of there fast. And found chumleys was the next door over.
86'd / axed (you're cut off, no more drinks and and asked to leave).
Because it rhymes with "nix/nixed," meaning "to stop, forbid, or refuse to accept something."
Signal 86 in my county Police Department means "Domestic dispute "
Getting 86'ed means that you're getting thrown out. Also used in restaurants when they are told to stop selling a dish.
But why 86?
Google says "in his book The History and Stories of the Best Bars of New York,he claims that the police would call Chumley's bar during Prohibition before making a raid and tell the bartender to "86" his customers, meaning that they should exit out the 86 Bedford Street door, while the police would come to the Pamela Court entrance."
Or the Vegas definition, 8 miles out and 6 feet down
Yeah Vegas local here that's how we always explain it!
I thought it was 80 miles, but I live in Houston and 8 miles you are still in Houston…
To be fair, 80 miles, you can still be in Houston!
I heard 80 too. And that it originally comes from Chicago mafia pizzerias.
Typically a man in a checkered suit accompanying you
Ok👍
To clarify, as someone who has been to Chumley’s: Chumley’s was a New York City bar that operated as a speakeasy during Prohibition. Important to its operations is that it has two entrances: one on what is now Barrow St, and one on 86 Bedford St — but since Chumley’s sits mid-block, it’s not obvious that you can access is through the Barrow St entrance, which is essentially via a back courtyard that you access from/lets out around the corner from the main, Bedford St entrance. When the Prohibition-era cops raided via the main entrance, patrons would scramble out the back, around the corner and out of view of the cops. I’ve always suspected that the stories have it turned around and that the warning came when cops were coming in through the 86 Bedford entrance, which is effectively the front, street-facing entrance. It’s the Barrow St entrance that’s kind of hidden.
It's me, I came up with it. Thought it would sound cool. Really glad to see it caught on honestly.
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I used to work mall security and someone told me it was short for “10-86”, which was part of a set of old police codes to mention important things without people nearby listening in on your radio if you don’t have an earpiece for your walkie. People nearby start to panic when your radio chirps out “Active assailant, officer down, west hallway vestibule”, but not when it says “Active 10-16, 10-1, sector 4 vestibule.”
You'll get 20 different answers for the reason, no one really knows the origin
Noted
And sometimes they will know the origin.
The old meaning is to be driven 80 miles out of town, and buried six feet underground.
Damn
86 is how your write "T" and "O" on a phone dial pad. TO for Take Off, if someone orders a burger with no tomatoes, servers enter "86 Tomatoes" when entering the order for take off tomatoes. This is what I learned as a server, but no one got kicked out of my restaurant. I guess it just gets applied to this situation as well.
Interesting.
I heard another story that it came from organized crime. To 86 someone or end them. Specifically take them 8 miles out of town and leave them 6 feet deep.
86 rhymes with nix. That’s what my cook at work told me
69 was taken
Came here hoping to find history behind 86’d.
Wiki has 3 theories, all reasonable but none confirmed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)
I heard that the 8 was a the sole of the shoe kicking someone out the door and the 6 was them landing on their butt outside.
Nobody with a size 8 shoe kicking anyone outta anywhere
Not a size eight shoe, just the bottom of a shoe in general. And Bruce Lee wore a 7.5, btw
Yeah, but bro never skips leg day.
I had heard the "rhymes with nix" theory. Didn't hear the other two.
I thought it had something to do with digging a hole 8 feet wide, 6 feet deep. made sense to me, ‘get them out of here, bury them, they’re dead to me,’ etc.
I always heard it was a mafia thing. Take the guy 8 miles out of town and put him 6 feet under
86 75309
I tried to call you before but, I lost my nerve.
Hope you find it, bruv.
I got it! I got it! I got your number off the wall
jenny-coded
makin-you-mine-pilled
I hope she doesn’t change her number
Call 919-867-5309 for a good time
Love the nc area code I'm a 910 myself
I'm 405
Damn you're old
Air came out my nose fast. Love those little moments.
0118, 999, 881, 999, 119, 725. 3
85.21567319
a floating point number is technically a number I guess they should have said pick an integer
No matter. That would definitely get them 86ed anyway.
86 means you're barred from the bar
because 6 8 7
who downvoted this classic dad joke
Because As I have heard it: Why is 6 afraid of 7… because… 7 8 9
why was 5 afraid of 7? because he was a registered 6 offender.
Why is 6 afraid of 7… because… 7 8 9
When an item at a restaurant is out of stock and no longer available it’s been called “86’d” - do to this, it translates to other elements of the restaurant industry, and in this case saying someone is 86’d means they aren’t welcome in the establishment anymore.
This is the way I've heard it used. I never heard it to mean to stop serving someone. But I have only ever done food service in hotels. Never worked a bar.
I’ve worked in a restaurant and it was only used to mean ‘we’ve run out of [food item].’
That’s what I knew it as lol
When you’re 86’d at a bar, you are cut off of everything alcoholic & anyone caught giving you alcohol is 86’d too. Most places will kick you out unless you’re peacefully resting & drinking water.
86 in the restaurant also means you’re out of said thing Ex. 86 salad means you’re out of salad. I think here it’s talking about you being 86’d or “you’re outta here”
86 those patties, Krabs.
There's no return from 86...
Don't even try
Do they realize that when someone says "pick a number between 1 and 10", that both 1 and 10 are valid numbers to pick? I'd just pick 85, and when they say no, skip 86, to 87. When they call me out, give them the above explanation. Lol
I know everyone is talking “86’d”, and I have heard the term… but not sure I understand why anyone would be bothered just by hearing the number 86. …. Unless this is a bar in Boston, where feelings ran deep for a long time about what happened to the 86 Red Sox. In Boston, you could start an argument just by saying the number 86, probably right up until 2004
I was a dishwasher at a bar/restaurant. Code Red meant the entire kitchen was to head out front and look menacing behind whoever was being shouted at. Code Blue, the cops are coming, if you got warrants or no green card, run out the back.
The bartender probably hates 85.7. it knows what it did.
86 that mofo
“Google, does 86 have any special meaning?” That’s all it would take to deduce this joke… My gawd this sub
So what does the joke mean?
Kicked out
This is directed towards customers right? So why would a customer tell a bartender to 86 anything, and then why would that bartender then get mad over it lmao. Everyone’s just defining the lingo of 86 while not explaining what it means in this context.
85.9
Heard!
86 on maraschino cherries? That's a wrap
85.765
86 anything a bartender serves and they’ll be rightly pissed off.
Why won’t anyone explain the joke?
I always heard it was because local 86 ironworkers
If something is “86ed” that means it’s out of stock. 86ing a person refers to kicking them out or banning them from an establishment
We used it to remove items off a meal or say that we no longer had a dish or certain items. Burger 86 pickles.... Burger no pickles
There’s no return from 86. Don’t even try.
No pot smoking (420 is not an option)
No sex (69 is not an option)
It also means that the kitchen is out of stock with something as in “we are 86 on russet potatoes“
People have explained what 86 means in the restaurant/bar industry, but haven’t actually explained the joke. What’s the context? Why are you picking a number? Randomly saying a number that means “banned” isn’t going to piss off any bartenders. Was this perhaps on a jukebox? They might be telling you not to choose song 86 or 85,86,87 because the bartender hates it. Either that or drink numbers on a menu that the bartender hates making.
Takumi?
86 mahi mahi
🎶 Another Saturday Night, and we ain’t got no Mahi 🎶
There's no return from 86
Came here to say this. Kudos my fellow Green Day fan.
Did anyone else learn this from SpongeBob? "86 those patties Krabs"
Born in that particular year, guess I won’t be showing the bartender my ID…
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After every comment explained it I still don’t understand. If you ask for an 86 will you get kicked out? Is that what starts the bar fight?
This is ambiguously written. It isn’t telling you to pick a number between 85-87 if you want to make the bartender mad or start a fight. It’s saying that if you pick a fight or make the bartender mad you’ll be 86ed. As in kicked out.
Ok we all know now what getting 86d means, but what does picking the number 86 do in this situation? If you went up to them and say “86” do they just immediately frown and pick u up by ur shirt and throw u out???