Vegetables
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Vegetables are a recurring theme in Zappa's work.
- Plastic People (1966 - Los Angeles): "A prune is a vegetable ... no, a prune is not a vegetable. Cabbage is a vegetable ... makes it O.K."
- Call Any Vegetable
- Call Any Vegetable (1966 - Los Angeles)
- Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin
- Soft-Sell Conclusion
- Vegetables are used to spell out The Mothers' names on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money.
- The Story Of Uncle Meat: ""Certain sounds at certain intensities have amazing effects on plants & vegetables."
- One of the constellations on One Size Fits All is called Borscht, which is a vegetable soup.
- Another constellation is called Asparagus
- Yet another constellation is called Legume, which is the French word for "vegetable".
- When The Lie's So Big: "Ketchup is a vegetable" (a reference to a notorious wrong quote by Ronald Reagan)
- Champagne Lecture
- Panty Rap: "Bob Harris on keyboards, high vocal, trumpet and vegetables"
Quote
Zappa explains the meaning behind Call Any Vegetable in Absolutely Free: The Complete Libretto: "The best clue to this song might lie in the fact that people who are inactive in a society ... people who do not live up to their responsibilities are vegetables. I feel that these people, even if they are inactive, apathetic or unconcerned at this point, can be motivated toward a more useful sort of existence. I believe that if you call any vegetable it will respond to you."
