If you use “buy me some peanuts and a light beer”, it scans OK. It doesn’t drink all that well, but to each their own.
Preview shows odd highlighting in the quoted portion - that isn’t my doing.
I dunno - the stress is on the “a”, which doesn’t sound great. I’d go with “Buy me some peanuts and foreign beer”.
Tastes better, too.
I was originally going with “Buy me some peanuts and nothing else,” but was stumped on a rhyme.
Foreign beer kind of takes a swipe at the “America’s pastime” aspect of the song, though.
“Buy me some peanuts and tasteless beer…”
Now that’s the spirit!
I have ignited a passionate debate over a song that is more than 110 years old. My work here is done.
You truly have attained to Doper Nirvana.
Unpopular opinion: I never liked Cracker Jack peanuts. Love the popcorn part, but the peanuts? Bleagh.
You could just sing “Buy me some peanuts in Cracker Jack.” Then it won’t be redundant, and indeed, nobody will even notice that you changed the lyrics.
Or “over-priced beer.” Additional syllable but it still scans.
Or “lots of beer,” for the right syllables.
“Expensive beer”
Who says they’re at the same time? Maybe she eats the peanuts in the third inning, and the crackerjack in the seventh. The song is about the whole outing, which occurs over the course of an entire evening, not about a single moment in the evening.
“Buy me tequila and salted nuts,
I don’t care if I puke up my guts?”
(It doesn’t matter if they could be two snacks. The point is there is a degree of redundancy which few notice. How redundant cannot be interpreted.)
I’m pretty sure I’ve watched A Christmas Story a million times by now.
I just saw a trailer for the upcoming sequel, which has some cast members from the original. So I went to Wikipedia to see which ones.
And I discovered that everything I thought I knew has been a lie. A Christmas Story (1983) is not the original movie in the franchise. It’s actually the third movie in what is now an eight movie series.
The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976) - Never heard of it
The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters (1982) - Never heard of it
A Christmas Story (1983) - The only one in the series as far as I’m concerned.
The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (1985) - Never heard of it
Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss (1988) - Never heard of it
It Runs in the Family: My Summer Story (1994) - Heard about this one. Didn’t watch it.
A Christmas Story 2 (2012) - Never heard of it
A Christmas Story Christmas (2022) - Saw the trailer.
Let’s not even get into how Ralphie’s two friends were named Flick and Schwartz, played by R.D. Robb and Scott Schwartz.
And they cast Scott Schwartz in the role of Flick.
Consider my mind to be formally blown.
I saw Ollie Hoopnadle’s Haven of Bliss on PBS, once, for more than 20 minutes, in the 70s. It was pretty good as I recall. Of the two I can see why A Christmas Story was much more famous.
Replied to add that it must have been late 80s/early 90s. They say the memory is the first thing to go, but i forgot who told me.
It was me. Yesterday.
“Losing your memory is one of the three classic signs of old age.”
“What are the other two?”
“The other two what?”