# Is Alice's Restaurant a tradition for your Thanksgiving?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [November 24, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-alices-restaurant-a-tradition-for-your-thanksgiving/603983 "2011-11-24T17:06:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-alices-restaurant-a-tradition-for-your-thanksgiving/603983/160 "2013-11-30T09:43:07Z")

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Okay, my Alice’s Restaurant stories.

I wasn’t much into listening to radio. I first heard this song in spring of 1969, at my High School Senior Talent Show, where one student performed it. (When I eventually heard the actual song, which I think was at least a year later, I realized he had performed it very well.)

A few years later, off at college, I learned that he (the student who performed it) is gay. Remember, this was at a time when this was something you didn’t want to have widely known.

Question for thought: Do you suppose that gay student must have found it upsetting or offensive to sing “And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them”?

Okay, now fast-forward 43-some years, to November 2012. In a thread about belly-rubbing Mexicans, I posted [this little parody](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15296095#post15296095), including this line at Post #29:

> [@Belly-rubbing Mexicans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-rubbing-mexicans/431906/29):
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> And if two Mexicans, two Mexicans do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them.

. . . only to be modded by **Colibri** at [Post 31](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15297438#post15297438):

> [@Belly-rubbing Mexicans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-rubbing-mexicans/431906/31):
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> [Moderator Note]
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> **Senegoid** , I realize that this is a parody of _Alice’s Restaurant_, but many people may not recognize it. In any case, let’s avoid the gratuitous use of offensive terms like “faggot” in this forum.
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> Colibri  
> General Questions Moderator

How our sensitivities have evolved! And who’da ever thunk that there might be anybody who hasn’t heard Alice’s Restaurant?

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