I think Bono was in a supermarket and wanted Spam, but he could only find Treet. Not wanting the cheapo version of Spam, he went home in a huff and wrote this song.
It could also have spiritual meanings I suppose, but it's 4:15 am here now and I like my version better.
Uh. Er. I feel like I should know this now, like it was a question back in 7th Grade Science class but *whatever* I'm asking it, now, as a middle aged girl gone happy and I ask you What On God's Green Earth Did this song mean???? Like, was this .... I didn't find the happenen' Jesus that I wanted or was is something else. Not trying to be to confrontational but that is a deeply retrospective song and in the 80's--I'm surprised I didn't see it, but I was off in my own ...world
Oh man, for me it's one of the clearest songs U2 have ever done. I've never thought anyone would ask themselves what this song means.
Did he eventually end up with headcheese?
God, Indra, that word is going to give me nightmares tonight, thanks a lot.
It was a major scarring event in my life.
Did he eventually end up with headcheese?
God, Indra, that word is going to give me nightmares tonight, thanks a lot.
At least you're an adult. Just imagine what seeing that in the deli case when I was five or six years old did to me.
Why do i keep coming back to discuss this?
Before this, I only knew the word from the Stevie Ray Vaughn song. Can I go back to that blissful ignorance? Please?
I think my parents used to buy it when I was little. Maybe it was just my dad who ate it, I really can't remember. It came sliced, like in deli meats? And you could also buy it in a little tub? :shudder: They weren't well off, but they weren't poor, either, it's not like they had to eat it.
Ewww.
We did have a bottle of toilet water in the bathroom cabinet that also freaked me out though. I was digging around one day and found it. I looked at it in absolute horror -- I mean the liquid was even pale yellow -- and wondered what in the world my parents had that for. Then I decided I didn't want to know, so I stuck it waaaaay back in a corner and never dug around in that cabinet again.
Did you ever find out why? 
I had no idea wtf this was, or what it meant, I just knew that it was religious and important and the spirit of Christ or some such, and it freaked me the hell out. I have a feeling it freaked my mom out too, because for many, many years, she just left it there. In fact, it may have still been there a few years ago when she moved out. 
