# Cinnamon Girl **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2014, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478 "2014-12-17T07:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/1 "2014-12-17T07:40:19Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdtUDaBfRA) In your own words, describe a cinnamon girl. Your time starts … now! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/2 "2014-12-17T14:57:04Z")
An earthy hippie chick. Shawls and scarves and dangly earrings, and smells like patchouli. Expects you to buy her pot. She’ll sleep with your best friend, and if you complain, she’ll say you can’t tie her down, man, she’s a free spirit. And she’ll make you feel bad for getting upset. And somehow, no one ever calls her on her shit, and she never gets treated badly. She’s the type that always finds someone to take care of her. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/3 "2014-12-17T18:02:19Z")
[Like this](http://www.ciscohouston.com/images/other/jean_ray.jpg), but with finger cymbals. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/4 "2014-12-17T18:21:25Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > An earthy hippie chick. Shawls and scarves and dangly earrings, and smells like patchouli. Expects you to buy her pot. She’ll sleep with your best friend, and if you complain, she’ll say you can’t tie her down, man, she’s a free spirit. And she’ll make you feel bad for getting upset. And somehow, no one ever calls her on her shit, and she never gets treated badly. She’s the type that always finds someone to take care of her. I’ll add this visual to your spot-on words. [Cinnamon Girl](http://s3.favim.com/orig/45/ginger-girl-hippie-red-hair-Favim.com-408980.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/5 "2014-12-17T19:21:40Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > I’ll add this visual to your spot-on words. > > [Cinnamon Girl](http://s3.favim.com/orig/45/ginger-girl-hippie-red-hair-Favim.com-408980.jpg) I could be happy… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/6 "2014-12-17T19:33:53Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > I’ll add this visual to your spot-on words. > > [Cinnamon Girl](http://s3.favim.com/orig/45/ginger-girl-hippie-red-hair-Favim.com-408980.jpg) With a bit of this: [Cinnamon, but not ginger](https://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/5786750/il_570xN.208735907.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/7 "2014-12-17T19:38:39Z")
I thought of just a pretty girl with cinnamon-colored skin. Reddish-brown. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/8 "2014-12-17T21:53:48Z")
I was well under 10 years old when I used to hear this song and I always thought he was talking about wanting to be with a black girl. I guess my young mind equated cinnamon with dark skin (which would really be Indian I suppose, but I didn’t know any Indians in SoCal in 1973)and I got some idea that he was yearning for something he couldn’t have / forbidden fruit sort of thing. Listening to it now, it really is a great, evocative song. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/9 "2014-12-17T22:00:08Z")
To me, the “cinnamon” is talking more about her personality than her appearance. She’s fiery - has a hot temper, talks quickly, and is the kind of person you don’t want angry at you. I guess I imagine her with red hair, pale skin, and freckles. She probably wears a pea coat with a knit beret and loves getting outraged at social injustices. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/10 "2014-12-17T22:02:35Z")
Heroin. Which I’m pretty sure is what the song is about anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/11 "2014-12-17T22:12:40Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > She probably wears a pea coat with a knit beret and loves getting outraged at social injustices. Hey, I went to college with that girl! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/12 "2014-12-17T22:16:42Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I was well under 10 years old when I used to hear this song and I always thought he was talking about wanting to be with a black girl. I guess my young mind equated cinnamon with dark skin (which would really be Indian I suppose, but I didn’t know any Indians in SoCal in 1973)and I got some idea that he was yearning for something he couldn’t have / forbidden fruit sort of thing. Same here, I always assumed a “cinnamon girl” was a mulatta. Guess I was underthinking it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/13 "2014-12-18T19:49:49Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > I’ll add this visual to your spot-on words. > > [Cinnamon Girl](http://s3.favim.com/orig/45/ginger-girl-hippie-red-hair-Favim.com-408980.jpg) _Yeah._ ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-girl/707478/14 "2014-12-18T21:33:11Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > I’ll add this visual to your spot-on words. > > [Cinnamon Girl](http://s3.favim.com/orig/45/ginger-girl-hippie-red-hair-Favim.com-408980.jpg) No, that is ginger, cinnamon is a different spice. When I was younger and listened to this song I thought of a slightly ethnic girl of some sort. Neither black nor white but somewhere in between. I was dating an adopted girl who was told she was Native American but sure looked Mexican/Hispanic to me. So that may have colored my thinking. 😉