# Jim Morrison and eating chicken **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 19, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879 "2003-06-19T06:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aliceinlalaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@aliceinlalaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aliceinlalaland)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/1 "2003-06-19T06:52:25Z")
Can someone tell me what Jim Morrison is actually referring too in the Doors song “Backdoor Man” when he says, “I eat more chicken than any man ever seen”. I heard he is referring to cunnilingus. Is this true? If so were did this reference come from? ---
**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:** [June 19, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/2 "2003-06-19T06:58:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Can someone tell me what Jim Morrison is actually referring too in the Doors song “Backdoor Man” when he says, “I eat more chicken than any man ever seen”. I heard he is referring to cunnilingus. Is this true? If so were did this reference come from? If it helps, Ian Astbury, the singer touring with the Doors this year, sings that lyric as “I eat more p\*\*\*y than any man ever seen”. ---
**Author:** ![aliceinlalaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@aliceinlalaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aliceinlalaland)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/3 "2003-06-19T07:01:14Z")
ah that does help! I just wonder why chicken? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/4 "2003-06-19T07:12:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aliceinlalaland \* > \*\*ah that does help! I just wonder why chicken? \*\* 'Cause everything tastes like chicken. 😃 (Plus, it scans.) ---
**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/5 "2003-06-19T07:19:18Z")
Chicken, a.k.a. yardbird, has a certain southern bluesman flavor. Or maybe he was talking about underage boys… ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/6 "2003-06-19T07:48:47Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Smapti \* > **If it helps, Ian Astbury, the singer touring with the Doors this year, sings that lyric as "I eat more p** _y than any man ever seen". \*\* He should lay off. It’s not like the Doors wrote the song. Since Willie Dixon also wrote _Little Red Rooster_ I fancy that “eating chicken” is more general than one specific sex act. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/7 "2003-06-19T10:24:16Z")
> [@](#): > > He should lay off. It’s not like the Doors wrote the song. They may not have written the song, but Morrison did invent that particular lyric. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/8 "2003-06-19T23:11:03Z")
A bit of self-correction on my last post: After further investigation, the “I eat more chicken” line was originally used by Howlin’ Wolf in his cover of the song, although it is not in Willie Dixon’s original lyrics. Shame on me for not doing my homework. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-morrison-and-eating-chicken/182879/9 "2003-06-19T23:45:19Z")
Nowadays, chicken is inexpensive and widely available. We think of it as an everyday, no-big-deal meat. Before mass-production chicken methods, though, a chicken dinner was a special occasion. In old blues and folk songs such as _I Got Mine,_ (“Ever since the big crap game, I been livin’ on chicken and wine”) the song is probably about the fowl. With that special status, it’s not surprising that chicken became a metaphor for a sweet woman, or a sweet part of her.