It was a tasty, inexpensive meal for people to enjoy, and it’s still easy to find a delicious slugburger in Mississippi, North Alabama and West Tennessee. When the Great Depression hit, the slugburger found a new, wider audience. READ MORE: Corinth is the ultimate food getaway In fact, he eventually converted five trolley cars into cafes to sell the popular treat. He deep-fried the patties, then topped the slugburgers with mustard, dill pickles and onions, and the end result was a burger like no one had ever tried before. He wanted to save money on his ingredients, so he requested that his butcher add potato flakes and flour into his ground beef to make the meat stretch. The slugburger got its start back in 1917 when Corinth resident John Weeks started making and slinging hamburgers from a mobile building on bicycle wheels - what we would now call a food truck. When a food lasts over a century, you know it’s good. (Want to keep up to date with us? Sign up for our free newsletter, where you'll find the latest videos, stories and merchandise.) So, you could say the South has the military to thank for - among other things - our favorite fill-in-the-blank word for those moments when we can't remember.gosh, what were we talking about again? What's the word? Doohickey? Yeah, that'll do. The exact quote was, “we were compelled to christen articles beyond our ken with such names as ‘do-hickeys’, ‘gadgets’ and ‘gilguys’.” Later, a 1925 printing of " Soldier & Sailor Words" listed “doo hickey” as “an airman’s term for small, detachable fittings.” In fact "doohickey" was already in use by Navy sailors long before it was first documented, which was, according to Today I Found Out's website, in 1914 when it appeared in an edition of Our Navy magazine. So who came up with the word doohickey? That'd be the Navy - and while we can't confirm it was a Southerner in the Navy who said it first, we'd like to think it was. Back before it was associated with necking, hickey was an American English word used when referring to "any small gadget". ![]() It's easy to see how doohickey would be linked to doodad, another word often used for when you can't remember what something is called, but how exactly did hickeys get involved in this? Well, first off, if you're thinking about those bruise-like marks teenagers often wear like a kissing badge of honor, get your mind out of the gutter. Read more: Why we say we're under the weather when we're sick It also traces Doohickey's origins back to 1915, listing it as a combination of the words "doodad" and "hickey." ![]() See what we mean? It's the perfect place holder for when the name of something escapes you, but you still need it.ĭ defines doohickey as simply an informal word used to described "a gadget," and, amusingly enough, it supplies the word "thingamajig" - another of the South's favorite nonword words - as a synonym. "Hey, pass me that green doohickey over yonder." or "Where'd that doohickey with the spinning bit go?"
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