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On 'Jack & Diane' and representing food (and people) in song (E60)

The Adam Ragusea Podcast

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Adam Magusia: One of the most memorable instances or mentions, utterances of food and drink in the entire Western canon. And that song is Jack and Diane by John Melonkamp, Johnny Cougar. He's not a young man in tight blue jeans in the back of a pickup truck anymore. Hopefully there's no debutants in the back seats of his car. But first we want to talk about where the hell this came from.

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