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Journalism malpractice you pathetic rag. It’s not “some food service workers” It’s everyone who spent even 1 day working in any capacity in service industry knows to be true. Ambiguity is not a journalistic principle

It’s getting tiresome of all these paybacks to Trumps enemies. Who will prosecute the prosecutors?

Propaganda.

I love how delicate the sensibilities of fascists are. These bitch ass losers should hear how we talk about them off of social media.

Look it up in the dictionary. There is no physical threat here. Trump’s DOJ is just being vindictive and political. Trump’s DOJ is just being political and vindictive with dishonest indictments.

I'm British and I know that term from years back, due to this song youtu.be/pquBVIN_6Jk?...

That is correct.

“Some food service workers” is doing an awful lot of work to make Trump look normal

Can't 86 someone who is already a nothing to tens of millions of voters: half the voting electorate🦅vote the nothing 47 out🇺🇲

Yes I was a food server and it literally means there’s no more of a certain menu item. “The minestrone soup is 86” 86 47 means to get him out of office, not try to kill him.

86 is also used in journalism and while your at in NBC please follow up with a story on how Trump and his DOJ are harassing political enemies with frivolous charges. This case is BS and will get thrown out. You know that.

Trump doesn’t have a snowball‘s chance in hell of winning that case. The prosecutors should be disbarred for bringing it.

When you 86 an item from the menu, it means it has run out and is no longer available. It does not mean that you try and kill the food you're serving.

yep, 30+ year hospitality vet, it was more unusual to not have to 86 at least one item per shift, simply means "out of stock"

“Some” food service workers? Do you mean LITERALLY FUCKING ALL OF US!? This is not up for question, the president is an insane dipshit and you’re normalizing this crap with this both-sides-ass writing.

It's everyday lingo to most Americans.

Its trump who should be charged with crimes against humanity

Coming from Trump, who's a '95' (Customer who leaves without paying.)

86

What did it mean when magas were using it in reference to biden and Amazon was selling 86 46 merch?

I think I reposted the meme on which this whole stupid indictment exists, as did hundreds more. Plus the right sold tee shirts saying "86 46" and Biden didn't feel it was a threat.

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So does the dictionary

There's your reasonable doubt - such a waste of govt resources - waste fraud and abuse one might say

86 is jargon, meaning in general: to cancel, discard, or otherwise nullify, common across many professions, always with the same meaning. The Grand Jury was wrong to advance this.

Some? SOME? Do you guys even bother with actual research as “journalists” anymore?

"Tell me you're an out of touch elitist douchebag who's never worked a service job or ever known a single person who has, without telling me you're an out of touch elitist douchebag who's never worked a service job or ever known a single person who has"

As any American over fifty could tell you. You don't have to humor liars.

Some? Gotta be >95%

Second time I fell for that trick this week.

100% restaurant slang. Usually means you're out of something. In Trump's case, old and moldy and isn't fit to serve.

But this was just Trump being Trump ….i hate these assholes

This is just about getting the perp walk, so that Blanche looks good to get the job full-time. Hopefully Blanche gets disbarred in future 🙄

Yes, those of us in the Restaurant industry know the term quite well. It means we no longer have them. An item has been 86’d or removed from the menu. Most software packages even refer to the items as 86’d or have an option to 86 an item.

Trump is trying to "86" the Epstein Files.

If memory serves from the 1970’s, ‘86’ was used to end CB radio conversations between truckers, good buddy…..

Yep..👍🏽

Donald Trump is ‘86’ing America by appointing the maniacs he has.. Trump has ‘86’ed America in the eyes of the world… Donald Trump.. …45/47-86-USA-2026..

Exactly- “ 86” means we are out of shrimp scampi or whatever. Learned that at Red Lobster in 1974!🍤🦞

When will disbarment happen for repeatedly indicting people based on false claims? Taxpayer money is paying for this. You can't keep throwing money away based on vindictive prosecution.

EPSTEIN FILES

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The only time I have ever heard the term is in the context of removing a drunk or belligerent customer from an establishment.

@nbcnews.com "Some" foof service workers. Really? Is your nose that far up his ass?

As ridiculous as Trump indictment of Comey is, I gotta say this quote from the article is both apropos & very New York: “If the chef didn’t like” how a dish came out, “he’d say 86 it, meaning make it disappear.” Let’s crush it in the midterms & make Trump irrelevant, until he finally disappears.

"some". No. ALL

The number comes from the address of a speakeasy in New York that had shelves on hinges that could tilt and dump all the booze down the drain if the police showed up. It has always meant to throw away or get rid of completely and irrevocably.

Trump says "you ever see the movies?" but I'll bet nobody can find ANY movie in which it's used that way.

It absolutely comes from food service. It's rhyming slang for "nix." It simply means "get rid of." Take an item off the menu because we've run out; or, get rid of a problem customer--NOT by killing them. 1975 slang dictionary:

Any folklorist could tel you that “86” comes from restaurant workers’ folk speech or jargon, and later taken up by non-food service people.

Jesse WATTERS threatens to execute the Queen of England: “So we're sitting down, and there's the Queen, and I go, 'How was the beehive?'" . . And she says, 'I'm glad nobody was stung.' And I said, 'You know what they say here in D.C., if the beestings won't get you, then the guns will."

Someone's going to 'have egg on their face' in court.

Everyone knows this, even the lying petty pedophile. This is malicious prosecution. Retaliation. Maybe once the base realizes they are paying for his incompetence they’ll smarten up. Doubt it. They’ve no critical thinking skills & if it isn’t in the MAGAt memo or talking points it doesn’t exist

Trump just demonstrates his America denial syndrome Symptoms First symptom Can’t distinguish between comedy and threats Then lies about Then whines to righty maga cult Looking for sympathy Man baby

I got 86't from a bar once...

Make your lives easier: This is another attempt to distract from Trump's failures. Move on.

Some? Some?? ROFL.

Yep. Rewind 30 years when I was tending bar at Chili's. It's Friday night and I hear a yell from the back of the house, "WE'RE 86 ON QUESO!!!!"...and I am not dead because I have to tell people that we are OUT of queso.

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Yes it’s annoying and stupid, but the bright spot is that Todd had to go up there and defend it discarding any last remanent of self respect he might have possessed. They won’t be here forever and he will face sanctions for his law license. So that’s delicious.

Fascists

FFS! “86 fries” means we are out of fries. “86 fish patties for the night” means that we are out of thawed fish…and I haven’t worked in a goddamned restaurant in years, and I hope to never do so again!

It’s a phrase that originated with evacuating customers (namely speakeasy customers from Chumley’s Bar on 86 Bedford St.), which colorfully came to mean bum’s-rushing a bum out the door.

They will bring to court as expert witness a linguist, a semiotics professor, a food service worker and a member of a gang

Anyone who has actually ever work a job knows it means we ran out of an item in the kitchen so take the item off the menu “the steak special is 86’d”. This is absolutely absurd. Trump reposted images of Biden bound and gaged in a truck. F off with this BS

Damn you, NBC! You are supposeed to be journalists, not craven lickspittles! "Some food service workers say..." THE DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS SAY IT, TOO!! IT IS A DEMONSTRABLE FACT! GROW SPINES! bsky.app/profile/kevt...

All those restaurant shootings to match all your school shootings??

"86 potstickers!" When Jack heard this, a switch went off in his brain, and his training instincts kicked in. No longer was this a simple lunch at Friday's. It was about to become a war-zone.

What a bunch of yes men licking at the orange guys boots. Someone need to tell him get over it and start acting like an adult instead of spoiled rotten child. I can imagine him rolling round the floor with his diaper on pounding the ground yelling at someone to punish the people who were critical

Federal prosecutors claim James Comey used “86” as threat against Donald Trump while restaurant workers call it common slang in kitchens daily.

Why are you treating this like "serious" news? The senile Nazi pedophile and his co-conspirators and traitors are using the justice system to silence regime critics. There, I wrote your report for you!

That indictment will ultimately end up in the trash can at the White House.

Plus, come the f on. Obviously the stupidest indictment ever.

The indictment is just abuse of power, Blanche needs to be sent to prison for that and being a co-conspirator like bondi

No movie data base has “86 him” anywhere.

Now interview anyone who’s ever served in the military. Case dismissed in 3..2..1..

Does Trump think Comey is sending signals or communicating in code? Why would he think that?

Please! EVERYONE with a functioning cerebral cortex knows that 86 was not used as a solicitation of violence. This is Trump using the DoJ as his personal law firm, and Donald has always been very, VERY litigious.

Yes. They use term when a food item runs out When I was still a drinking gal I got 86’d from a bar or two 🤦‍♀️ so it also means “ousted” from a place. There is nothing threatening about either! This whole case is another bogus case of distraction from #TrumpTraitor Fascism and Pedophilia.

Funny he had no issue when MAGAs were using it against Biden. Didn’t Trump even sell some merch to that effect?

Trump is wrong again. 86 means an item is no longer available on the menu. That's all it means.

youtube.com/shorts/WC2b5... "War ain't beautiful...absolutely! Say it again"

Close, but do better @nbcnews.com. The headline should be "despite the term being used in food service and never once in an mob movie as trump claims".

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing" Extrapolate "men" to "people"........ colour/creed /sex is not relevant

To 86 something is common lingo. It basically means to get rid of. It an be made to mean specific ways of getting rid of, but without additional context around it there is no way to say of it specifies something that would cause harm or not.

I’m not a mob boss or a waiter, so I’d never heard the term before. This is a stupid case.

Where do you get a cheeseburger for $5 in 2026?

Those restaurant workers can pack their jail kits and surrender in orderly fashion 😂 We reached Stalinist-level ridiculous "planned to dig a tunnel to Japan"

Federal prosecutors should interview Trump as to the murders he has heard discussed with reference to "86". It doesn't seem to be used in any gangster films, so assuming Trump was involved in arranging murder(s) is not a big stretch.

Mainstream media has zero balls

So they’re saying he “threatened to kill the president” which is a stretch- but they left this “threat” for over a year?

Defense exhibits 1 and 2.

This is the 3rd possible origin of 86 that I have read. The other two are; 86th street in Chicago was where beer was dumped in prohibition, and a fancy NY restaurant that did not have a table 86 would use it as subtle slang in front of customers

just means we are out of something. that is all. I said when I was a server.

These pieces of sh it will use anything no matter how flimsy

My partner recognised it from doing kitchen work in Ireland and the UK. Don't think he ever saw a paella get murdered over it.

Wasn’t Comey comparing the Orange Marmalade to Agent 86, Maxwell Smart? Same level of incompetence & intelligence.

Considering that one of his mentors was Roy Cohen it's not a wonder that DJT's vocabulary has words, phrases or symbols with meanings as used by mafia members.

It is obvious who has served others for a living and who was born believing others only live to serve them.

Trump is such a pest

In gangster lingo it does mean to nix someone, to the rest of the world it means to evict or remove from the building/property. Trump telling on himself again thru thin skinned reactions.

Every food service worker and everyone who knows even a little bit about eating at restaurants, and everyone who has ever watched Kitchen Nightmares knows what 86 means. Write better articles.

Only in sick evil nasty deranged ignorant unqualified idiot morons is common things common words hate to them because all they know is hate

Question. Does Comey's post constitute yet ANOTHER assassination attempt?

not some, ALL RESTAURANT WORKERS. JFC

Yes, TRE45ON is well-known for making mountains from mole-hills.

I've never heard 86 used as a euphemism for anything but Article 86 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice addresses unauthorized absence

It is everyday lingo. My professor said in the criminal world it means to “knock off…..”, but I feel like that is made up because I have never heard that and I’m old….. just like his assassination attempts…. Made up.

Apparently ''86'' has been around since the 1930's & is still common usage in the restaurant industry. It is used by kitchen staff when an item is no longer available & by waiting staff to indicate an item be removed from the menu, to refuse service to a customer or have them leave the premises.

So stuff 47 in a plastic bag and toss it in the dumpster.

Total beat up scam…

Yes we get it, restaurant workers and navy sailors aren't crybabies.

At least James Comey didn't say he was going to destroy a civilization, did he?

Because it is... '86' is a common term used in the food service industry. Has been and still is... Trump, #MAGA and his sycophants are America's cancer. Freedom is being destroyed for profit.

Lmao this is fckn laughable! Who believes the Naz¡Ch¡ldRap¡st in the whitheNaz¡house?? Stop fcking around and release the #TrumpEpsteinFiles

86 is restaurant slang for remove (i.e. menu item is no longer available).

86 is not a threat “to do harm."

You spent the whole article on the origins of the term “86” and never once mention the violent rhetoric the right spews everyday. How hundreds of people had signs that said “hang Mike Pence” and erected a scaffold with a noose on Jan 6. Get real NBC, you hoping Ellison buys you next?