tube steak

[A. Vine]

There used to be commercials for Fritos brand corn chips featuring W.C. Fritos,
who was obviously a take-off on W.C. Fields.  In one of the commercials he
approaches a child eating a hot dog and says, "Ah, the legendary tube steak..."
This was my first exposure to the term (I must've been younger than 10), so it
stuck in my head.  If Fritos felt it was usable on TV, I'm sure it had a
straight link to the hot dog.

Andrea
P.S.  I still have a W.C. Fritos pencil top eraser.  All my Frito Bandito ones
are gone though.
--
Andrea Vine
Sun-Netscape Alliance messaging i18n architect
avine at eng.sun.com
I always wanted to be an architect. }sigh{  Of course, I _am_ an architect.

Pafra & Scott Catledge wrote:
>
> I've never heard it in an obscene context; popular term in FL and MS in mid
> 50s; SC in mid 60s; GA in mid 70s; NV, mid 80s; CA, mid 90s.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <RonButters at AOL.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 12:04 PM
> Subject: tube steak
>
> > In a message dated 9/10/1999 6:57:46 AM, preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU writes:
> >
> > << Yeah, but a hotdog is never a tubed steak. >>
> >
> > But is it a tube steak? I've never heard this except in obscene contexts.