countermen

• “At the Kaladi Brothers coffee shop, countermen Jeremiah Collins and Tyler Montanez said they didn't care much one way or the other about Sarah Palin's politics.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Circus Returns to Palin's Hometown

• “The place was packed before a Royals game, you lined up to get to the counter, the food was being whirled about confusingly, the line hustled along by the countermen, step up, step up, keep moving, what do you want, and I from New York was the rube, and intimidated.”

  The Huffington Post: Avery Corman: New York: A Major Barbecue City...Really!

• “I would hand-pick my own pickle from a giant barrel (a ritual inconceivable today in a culture dependent on sanitizer gel) and stand in line and order a hand-sliced corned beef sandwich from the countermen who knew my grandparents by name.”

  Dana Joy Altman: Real Food Rehab: Save The Deli

• “DoNots and I has coffee an reeds teh SonDay papur, an chex my email on mah cell phone and has fun talkees wiff all my Citrus Heights countermen dey bee a berry up-in-yuh-nated groop, lemmee tell ya!”

  Tree hugger Panda - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “On one side of the establishment was the dining area, and on the other was a thirty-foot glass counter filled with all sorts of meats and salads and knishes of various origins, and behind the counter were usually about half a dozen yarmulked, white-smocked countermen, who engaged in playful Yiddish banter and efficient meat-slicing and shouted with authority, “Next!””

  Simon & Schuster: Wake Up, Sir!

• “No mirrors flashed the light of delectation from behind a bar attended by indulgent countermen.”

  Into the Thinking Kingdoms

• “I followed him behind the delicatessen counter, onto the duckboards, into the midst of his countermen and butchers, whose faces at that moment dared show no partisan expression.”

  Simon & Schuster: Neon Rain

• “She came to know all the guards, the paper vendors, the countermen.”

  Simon & Schuster: A STRANGER IS WATCHING

• “Jimmy's intelligence told him that countermen in a joint like this didn't expect tips, so he saved himself that hurdle.”

  The Fourth R

• “They entered the Churchyard and were soon amid a noisy, hustling throng, an assembly composed of clerks and countermen, roughs and pickpockets, with a sprinkling of well-to-do rowdies, and numerous girls or women, whose shrieks, screams, and yelps sounded above the deeper notes of masculine uproar.”

  The Town Traveller

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