pink taco

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:

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> "Tube steak" meaning "hot dog" or "wiener" has been around as long as I
> can remember, and a glance at Newspaperarchive shows many examples in
> the papers, back to 1939.

Barry Popik on "tube steak":
  http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/tube_steak/

> I suppose it was probably originally a jocular coinage, modeled on "cube
> steak".
>
> I don't recall hearing/seeing it applied to a sex organ, but then I
> haven't heard it much recently at all.
>
> No doubt it lends itself to a sex-organ reference, just like "hot dog",
> "wiener", etc., etc.

Urban Dictionary has several sex-organ entries under
  http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tube+steak

1. Army lingo for the male sexual organ; the penis. Typically used in the phrase "tube steak & white gravy," a reference to an ejaulating penis, inserted into one of the drill/platoon/top sergeants' numerous gay slurs directed at subordinates.

"You're going to love the main course at the chow hall," the D.I. told the raw-ass recruit. "It's tube steak & white gravy and you can have all you want!"

3. the main course in a mock meal that you might offer to a hungry friend
Hungry friend: "I'm awfully hungry."

You: "Really? How'd you like a nice tube steak, smothered in underwear?"

4. the main course in a mock meal that you might offer to a hungry friend
Hungry friend: "I'm awfully hungry."

You: "Really? How'd you like a nice tube steak, smothered in underwear?"

5. A erect penis that is closely proportional to the size of a steak.

Wow, look at that big @$$ tube steak!

6. What a gay guy gets off on.

Tube steak after tube steak was poked through the glory hole, and Rock made gravy out of all of them with his saliva filled sucking machine mouth

.....

the Online Slang Dictionary has it with the 'penis' sense.

(then there's some on-line discussion about the ZZ Top song "Tube Snake Boogie", often heard as "Tube Steak Boogie")

the gay connection is strong.  in particular, from Raging Stallion Studios, a gay porn flick "Ten Pound Tube Steak", featuring a collection of large and thick cocks.  and "tube steak" referring to the penis in many descriptions of gay porn flicks.  also in gay porn writing, which is given to endless variations on words for the penis, i suppose in the belief that you should vary your vocabulary rather than sticking to the ordinary vernacular terms "dick" and "cock" (though for me expressions like "tube steak", "trouser snake", and "manmeat" are giggle- rather than erection-inducing).

arnold

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