Who coined this phrase?

Seem to recall this from the very late 50’s or 60’s. In a very heavy spanish/latin accent, “I want a chickon’ snadwich with a live chicon’.”

Was it a local Chicago DJ or maybe Cheech and Chong?

Actually, it was from a comedy album skewering the Kennedy family; the speaker in question was Fidel Castro, attending some sort of conference JFK was chairing. I used to have this album and I remember the sketch very clearly. I forget if the album was from '61 or '62 but it was incredibly popular up until the assassination.

I don’t recall the quote, but perhaps this is the album you are thinking of:

That’s the one. The sketch was a meeting of world leaders, and I think they were trying to get their lunch orders together when Castro unleashes a torrent of Spanish; Kennedy calls on him and Castro says the “live chicken” line.

Yes, it is a parody of the fact that when Castro visited New York to attend the United Nations, he is supposed to have had live chickens sent up to his suite at whatever swanky hotel he was lodged in, and they killed and prepped the chickens for cooking in the suite.

That album, by the way, was a masterpiece. My parents had it, and it was one of my earliest lessons in politics. The sketch with the Castro comment involves a bunch of world heads of state meeting at the White House. There follows two parts to it: the first part where Kennedy is trying to seat all the world leaders without ruffling feathers, the second part where Kennedy decides that, rather than a fancy meal, they will all simply order from a local deli. The only other line from the sketch that leaps to mind is when someone asks for their sandwich to come with a little “mayo” and Chiang Kai-shek pipes up with, “Please, not to mention that name!” I believe that someone else (Adnauer?) is ordering some decidedly American deli sandwich, and you hear a shoe pounding on a table, at which point he also asks for a bowl of borshch. :smiley:

We would play tha album quite a bit. I was 15 at the time. Then, when JFK was assassinated, my father forbade its playing. I suspect he threw it away.

As opposed to my usual jests, I really don’t know this time:

Did they really pronounce it “SNAD-wich”?

No.

I remember the sketch, but I don’t remember that line. My parents had it also - I think it was just about in any house.

And I would hardly say it skewered the Kennedy family the way people skewered Nixon later. It was funny, but pretty positive about them.

BTW Chuck McCann, well known from New York kid’s TV, was on that album also.

Slight hijack–actually, he moved out of a swankier hotel that offended him by asking for cash in advance and moved to the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, a fine hotel, but not refered to as “swanky” at the time. It reminded Americans how recently it was that the Theresa was the best, and one of the only, hotels in town which accepted blacks. I was only 10 at the time, but the hullabaloo it caused was enough that I remember it.

Having never thrown away any LP I ever owned, I still have my copy of “The First Family.” Unfortunately, I don’t have the equipment to transfer the audio to an MP3 or WAV. But I did find it on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9gOrGU8wE

Sorry, the bit with the sandwiches (“Economy Lunch”) is on clip 3/5. Castro comes in at about 3:50. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGakFeX_yX8&feature=related

Poor Vaughn Meader. His career went straight down the tubes after the Kennedy assassination. I was hoping the same fate would do in the plethora of Elvis impersonators when he kicked the bucket but alas they outsmarted us and multiplied by the thousands and gave us “tributes to Elvis”. No need to guess the next trend in make believe people is there?

May the good Lord in his infinite mercy spare us but I have no doubt you’re right.

Oh the humanity!