That makes sense. You gotta drink to stay warm and might as well go for the cheap stuff so you dont break the fuel/heating allowance.
Unless Jim Beam is the expensive stuff?
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Fairly inexpensive. About $14 a bottle.
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Jim Beam is a favorite among people who drink whisky mixed drinks. Better than the well, not good enough to drink straight.
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Huh, hadnât thought about that. Mostly because I donât see the point, I guess. If I want a strong drink, I want a strong drink, not bloody lemonade! 
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Take:
1 glossy colour magazine;
1 clean white paper tissue
A small quantity of your chosen spirit.
Pour a few drops of spirit on the magazine. Rub gently with the tissue. Examine the tissue.
If your spirit of choice has not removed the ink from the magazine, itâs not worth drinking.
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Understandable. In my case, at some point I quit âdrinking for the sake of drinkingâ and examined what I was actually drinking because i liked it. Now the only straight spirit I drink is good single malt Scotch. Iâll drink a good beer or two. My gf favors margaritas so I have them now and then. And I admit to having a taste for bourbon and ginger ale or rum and coke, though they are seldom convenient so I honestly canât remember the last time I had one
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Rum and coca colaâŚmy first alcoholic drink. But Iâm really a Martini and Rossi Asti Spumanti girl.
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Apparently, at the time this record was released, neither the Amdrews Sisters nor government regulators realised it was a celebration of prostitution. If it were released now, it might well be banned - certainly some radio stations would refuse to play it.
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A lot of songs celebrated prostitution and got away with it. My mom said she loved this song until she realized what it was about
XMRadio 40s station plays Rum and CocaCola all the time. Itâs one of my faves 
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Iâve always wondered how they got away with this one, tooâŚ
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And on the Lawrence Welk show too. 
American music is filled with this kind of stuff from way back. I could give you a long list.
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Thereâs a qualitative difference, though, isnât there? âFeets Too Bigâ and âFran Fran Sauceâ could be seen as mild innuendo - but thereâs nothing blatant. I can easily see how they got past censors.
On the other hand, the story of a woman who can only ever be satisfied by a man giving her his âfrankfurterâ âall night longâ leaves absolutely no room for doubt or interpretation. I donât know how they got away with it.
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Many non-anglophone Europeans like anglophone pop songs â but donât understand the lyrics. One show host offered to play the special songs that meant something to listening couples, and one caller wished for a specific breakup song.
The radio host understood the lyrics (and I could at least understand that they were not positive) and hesitated: Does this couple really unknowingly bond over a breakup song? Or are they announcing a breakup in his show? We never found out. 
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And my biggest question, did Lawrence Welk understand it? My mom watched his show every week. I grew up watching it.
Welk was about as clean a guy as you could ever meet
And to clarify, frim fram sauce is a pig latinish play on flim flam. But the shififa on the side is sex
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I first heard âFrankfurter Sandwichesâ in the sixties - performed by a woman (possibly Aimi McDonald?). Since then, Iâve become aware of the 1927 original - but I liked it better sung by a woman - so I chose the Welk show clip.
This is, I think, the original. I think it loses something when sung by a man.
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I notice it says she cravesâŚbeing a TCM clip I wondered if it was from their coverage of the âpansyâ craze that ran thru Hollywood in the days before the censors. Men were quite open to singing about other men until the death of a very popular personality, Gene Malin. Then the politicians stepped in and put an end to everything âlewdâ.
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I donât think itâs a TCM clip - I think TCM is where whoever made the video found a still picture of the Al Lenz Orchestra.
I agree, if you go back to the 1920s, in some quarters there was a remarkable lack of censorship. Some of the early blues singers werenât just risque - they were up-front, full-on pornographic. Lucille Boganâs âShave âEm Dryâ * from 1935 didnât mess around - but that stuff wasnât available to, or intended for, white family radio audiences.
It wasnât so much the sexual content that piqued my interest - more the ways people tried to outwit the censors, and the fact that some people (Lawrence Welk?) were so dumb and unworldly that they didnât even realise theyâd been outwitted.
Was it Oscar Widle? - âI will not engage in a battle of wits with you - I refuse to fight an unarmed manâ.
*I havenât provided a link - some might find it offensive - sheâs very explicit. Itâs easy enough to find from the information Iâve given.
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It could also be that they just werenât listening for it. It maybe wasnât until someone pointed it out and censorship began that they started actually looking for these references.
Iâm often surprised even now, how many people sing along with a catchy song and really have no idea what they are singing about. It was perhaps the catchiness of a tune that allowed them to sneak in references.
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Well, thankfully, in these emancipated, woke, and âme tooâ days, That stuff doesnât happen any more.
(Wanders off, whistling âMy milkshakes bring all the boys to the yardâ).
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In Europe, thatâs the norm 
Nobody cares very much.
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