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Lighter Folklore: Carnation Milk / Pet Milk poem (bawdy) (13) RE: Folklore: Carnation Milk / Pet Milk poem (bawdy) 24 Jan 25


Journal of the American Medical Association, Dec. 27, 1941:

"Student song on evaporated milk:

No teats to pull,
No dung to fling,
Just punch two holes
In the Goddam thing."


Ramon F Adams, "Come an' Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook" (1936), has an extended story about an elderly lady who enters a jingle contest for Carnation milk. She hands the letter to a cowboy she knows for him to mail. Soon she gets a letter from the Carnation company saying they can't use her jingle because it's unprintable. The lady suspects the cowboy, and asks him what happened. He replies that her two-line jingle needed to be longer, so he added two lines. The results is:


"Carnation milk, best in the lan',
Comes to the table in a little red can.
No teats to pull, no hay to pitch,
Jes' punch a hole in the sonofabitch."


It seems likely that the verse came originally from the joke rather than the other way around.


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