| 1. | Filipino Box Spring Hog | ||
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A full hog cooked in this backyard fashion: Build a big fire, throw a box spring on it until it's burnt off everything but the steel springs, put a hog over the springs above the coals, sauce it with a broom, flip it over ever now and then. Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road
Fill it with madrone and bay Stinks like hell And the neighbors complain Don't give a hoot what they say Slap that hog Gotta roll em over twice Baste him with a sweeping broom You gotta swat them flies And chain up the dogs Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog (credit to Tom Waits) |
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| 2. | Filipino Box Spring Hog | ||
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1. The fourteenth song on Tom Waits' 1999 album, Mule Variations. 2. A term for any strange or disgusting new food. If you can't figure out a food's name or ingredients, you may call it this. Rattle snake piccata with grapes and figs
Old brown Betty with a yellow wig Tain't the mince meat filagree And it ain't the turkey neck stew And it ain't them bruleed okra seeds Though she made them especially for you Worse won a prize for her bottom black pie The beans got thrown to the dogs Jaheseus Christ, I can always make room Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog |
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